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Making it Real for housing report launched
“I feel at the epicentre of my recovery. It is my choice what decisions are made and this alone has had a very positive impact."
Person supported by Together for Mental Wellbeing
A new Making it Real guide for supported housing has been published by TLAP and Sitra, part of Homeless Link.
The Making it Real for Housing guide is aimed at commissioners and service providers, and offers advice and case study examples to show how housing can be tailored to be person-centred and focussed on outcomes.
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Partnership day
“Personalisation is as much about people’s attitudes, behaviours and where power sticks as it is government policy”
Steve Scown, Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG).
We recently held a partnership meeting, with the aim of reflecting on what the sector has achieved with personalisation in light of the Care Act and the constraints of austerity.
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Blog: Reflections on the Public Accounts Committee recommendations
In case you missed it, our new Policy Advisor for Personalised Commissioning and Self-directed Support, Martin Walker has written a blog looking at how the Public Accounts Committee recommendations will affect Personal Health Budgets.
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Blog: Dorset County Council signs up to Making it Real
"The launch event was the first step towards people who use services taking a more influential role in shaping services and taking control. It enforced the commitment and sold the concept and benefits of Making it Real to people who use services, carers, communities and partners. The overwhelming response from all that attended was extremely positive."
Dorset County Council recently launched Making it Real in order to give local people who use health and social care services more control.
Christopher Skinner has looked into how this will make the delivering of services more effective in the region.
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Neil Matthewman joins leading Voluntary Organisation Disability Group (VODG)
Chief executive of Community Integrated Care, Neil Matthewman, has been co-opted onto the VODG board.
Neil Matthewman said: “I am delighted to have the opportunity to further support VODG by joining its Board. I look forward to supporting their vision of a world where every person with a disability has full choice and control”.
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Social Care Institute for Excellence publishes a report on a nursing assistants programme
A new report by the Social Care Institute for Excellence, evaluates care home provider HC-One’s Care Assistant Development Programme (CADP). The programme, which has received RCN Accreditation, consists of blended face-to-face and e-learning, ongoing assessment, and mentoring support from a qualified nurse.
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Personal wheelchair budgets: Join the conversation on Twitter, 28 June 2016
In May 2016, NHS England announced it would be developing a personal health budgets model for the provision of wheelchairs.
Join the conversation on Twitter on Tuesday 28 June to share your thoughts, questions, hopes and concerns.
The hashtag will be #NHSPHB all day, with dedicated chats from 9-10am, 1-2pm and 7-8pm.
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Supported decision making – taking a co-production approach in Hull
Inclusion North are undertaking a number of projects looking at improving the way in which supported decision making takes place for people with a learning disability.
They’d be interested to hear from other areas of the country who can tell them about good practice in terms of supported decision making for people with a learning disability. Please contact: Lucy at Inclusion North lucyvirgo@inclusionnorth.org.
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