Transformation

Alcohol

The project aims to transform the way partners across Wakefield District and the region deal with alcohol as an issue with the aim of improving outcomes for local people.The rise in alcohol consumption in Wakefield District, as in the rest of the region, is placing significant pressure across the Wakefield economy including social care. More importantly it is affecting people's lives and reducing the chances of getting good care outcomes.

Contact: Diane Lee - diane.lee@wdpct.nhs.uk

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Assistive Technology

Telecare is a support system based on sensors and personally activated devices which can support the challenges associated with vulnerable people's health and daily living. The use of such technological advances is being developed by local authorities to enhance the way needs can be met.

Telecare helps to manage risk but not control behaviour as it enables people to personalise how they wish to be supported and supports people to feel more independent.

Contact: Adrienne Lucas - adrienne.lucas@northyorks.gov.uk

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Commissioning

The JIP strategic commissioning programme is designed to build sustainable commissioning competency and capacity across Yorkshire and the Humber to deliver the Transforming Social Care agenda. The programme is on target to deliver a two year plan developed in consultation with ADASS and the JIP.

The programme's overarching aim is to improve quality of life and independence for all who use social care services. See case study.

Contact: Alison Henderson - Alison.henderson@wakefield.gov.uk

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Joint Commissioning

This project will focus on understanding joint commissioning practices between health and social care across the region that create greater efficiencies and better outcomes through redesigning internal and/or external service pathways. Following the publication of the white paper on NHS reform this project has expanded to understand how GP commissioning models will work. We will also pilot and document and share our approach to joining up the commissioning of local NHS Services, social care and health improvement across Calderdale.

Contact: Nicola Bailey - Nicola.Bailey@calderdale.gov.uk

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Co-producing Leadership in Transformation

The principles of co-production can transform how services and support for older people, people with disabilities and their carers are planned, delivered and evaluated. This project will work to support all Yorkshire and Humber local authorities to have the confidence to use co-production principles with confidence.

Contact Tricia Nicoll - tricia@tricianicoll.com

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Lead Member Development

The project followed on from the successful workshop 'Shaping the Solutions' organised by the IDeA (now Local Government Improvement and Development) and Local Government Yorkshire and Humber in July 2008. This project is now complete.

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Learning Disabilities (Good Days project)

Valuing People Now re-emphasised the need for all local authorities to invest in making community based facilities and settings that are accessible for all. The objective of the project is to support local authorities and their partners in developing a community environment where individuals with learning disabilities are included and involved in everyday working, learning and leisure activities.

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Minding the Gap

Hosted by Wakefield Council, Minding the Gap is a regional capacity building programme which aims to develop capacity to impact positively on health inequalities. Based around a local health collaborative which includes a range of regional and national agencies, the programme is specifically focussed on the role of local authorities in influencing the wider social determinants of health.

Jointly funded by the JIP and the Department of Health the Programme seeks to bring together people from a range of disciplines, both by establishing and supporting networks and by running themed regional conferences and workshops at which partners can explore the benefits of collaborative action to mitigate the root causes of health inequalities.

Contact: Geoff Ainsley - gainsley@wakefield.gov.uk

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Safeguarding

The project established a Regional Strategic Safeguarding Network, (RSSN) to improve standards of safeguarding of vulnerable adults across Yorkshire and the Humber. This group will provide a focus for safeguarding activity across the region and seek to influence national policy as well as to receive and disseminate national guidance. The project completed in December 2010.

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Transitions

This project is focussed on improving outcomes for young people and their families as they leave school. The aim is to do this by building on and extending previous success of transforming transitions in Sheffield and developing more tools to address the structural barriers to personalised transitions. The work undertaken will result in increased numbers of individual budgets in health, education and social care.

Contact: Pippa Murray - pippa@ibkinitiatives.com

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Workforce

It worked to support the continued delivery of objectives to meet the JIP People Matters Strategy and Working to Put People First (the DH Strategy for the Adult Social Care Workforce in England) which together influence both the existing workforce and the workforce of the future through sub regional and regional activities as appropriate.

This project is now complete.

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Young Dementia

The main aim of the project is to develop co-produced services for people with younger onset dementia and their carers which:

- Encourage social interaction, prolong social skills and prevent group members feeling and/or becoming isolated

- Encourage participation in activities that promote increased physical and cognitive stimulation

- Provide a safe environment for 'cared for' and carers to share issues, ideas, and feelings and provide support for each other.

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eLearning

The aim of this project is to establish an eLearning platform for the Y&H region.

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