Three neighbouring councils in an urban area pooled their budgets for day care. Commissioners created the new service specification by combining elements of the previous three local contracts. Information...
Co-commissioners in Asset-Based Areas explicitly seek to promote social value. What this means is that they (commissioners and people with lived experience) look at people’s lives as a whole and don’t focus on individual outcomes.
Isolation has a toxic effect on people’s physical and mental health. Those with fewest assets fare the worst. At the extreme, social exclusion in the form of harassment and violence can lead to suicide.
Social and community enterprises (SCEs) run shops and pubs, they provide transport, support fun activities, enable people to share accommodation and support them to be self-employed.
The focus of personalisation has been on supporting people in community settings, more needs to done to support people who are working to make personalisation happen in care homes for older people.
Investing in prevention, early intervention and community capacity building is a central feature of Asset-based Areas rather than a ’nice to have’ one.
KeyRing aims to support people living in their own homes through sharing their skills and talents with each other and with their communities. Building these networks is the role of the community living...