Covid-19 adult social care provision: stories of promise
Information and examples of emerging practice during the Coronavirus pandemic.
These examples show how organisations, councils and communities are adapting with positive, responsive and creative approaches and solutions to providing care and support during the pandemic.
Examples
Keeping people connected
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Adaptive Yoga LIVE
Adaptive Yoga from the comfort of home
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Books Beyond Words
Beyond Words supports people who find pictures easier to understand than words.
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Dimensions - Getting Out There - Online!
Virtual community-based sports and leisure activities for people aged 16+ with a Learning Disability and/or autism under lockdown.
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Dimensions - Staying In Touch
Online clubs and activities run by people with lived experience
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Frazzled Café
Preventing social isolation in a safe environment
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Gig Buddies in Lockdown
Reimagining Gig Buddies to support people with learning disabilities to lead active social lives
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InCommon Buddies
Keeping generations connected
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MacIntyre Charity - four creative responses
Stories of empowering people to run groups and clubs during Covid
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The Buzz - Community Catalysts
Drawing upon community enterprises to create online communities
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Thurrock Local Area Coordination
A community response to Covid-19 through local area co-ordination
Carers
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Giving carers access to virtual platforms at home
Virtual world for carers accessed through a Kindle Fire
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Southend Carers
Working together in partnership to support carers during Covid19
Digital innovation
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AutonoMe
A digital app helping people learn and maintain new skills to live independently
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Digital Inclusiveness – Surrey Choices
Supporting disabled and autistic people to have access to technology
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EMPOWERCARE: Kent Digital Ambassadors Programme
Empowering and supporting people to use technology to keep them in work, healthy and motivated
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Kent ESTHER Care Philosophy Webinars
New ways of connecting with the Esther Network
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Kent Help to Care Mobile App
Mobile phone app to support people who care for others in Kent and Medway
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Shropshire Council - digital resources
Supporting people who would normally attend day services with digital solutions
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Southend On-Line 49
Keeping people with learning disabilities in touch who would normally attend day services
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Southend Trust Links Live
Livestreaming Wellbeing Support
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Wearable tech to help prevent resident falls
A wearable solution which helps to identify certain health risks early on – Advanced Risk Modelling for Early Detection (ARMED)
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Yokeru & Hammersmith and Fulham Council
AI calls that offer a digitally-inclusive solution for supporting people
Information and advice
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ACE Anglia information & advice provision
ACE Anglia weekly health and wellbeing meetings
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East of England Strategic Migration Partnership
Covid-19 guidance translated in 60 different languages
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North West Training & Development
Support to people with a learning disability, their family and friends
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Touchpoint Service at Inclusion Barnet
Touchpoint supports people experiencing any forms of disability to access services and resources they need.
Markets and commissioning
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Hertfordshire Care Providers Association
Support hub for adult social care providers
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MacIntyre Charity-Life in Lockdown project
Life in Lockdown - Emotional support to people with learning disabilities
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NAPA Arts in Care Homes
Online project linking up care homes with volunteers by email to exchange messages of support, artwork and poems.
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Oomph Wellbeing
Supporting older adults to keep well during Covid-19
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Power to Change
Emergency support for community businesses
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Shropshire Council - supporting care providers
Supporting care providers with additional costs and being flexible during Covid-19
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Spinal Injury Association (SIA)
Ensuring people with Spinal Injuries have a right to live a fulfilled life during Covid-19
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The Relationships Project Observatory
Improving social relationships to build a better society
Self-directed support
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Doncaster Council
Quick access to PPE supplies for Personal Assistants
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Medway Council
In-house Direct Payment Service proactively responding early to the pandemic
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Shropshire Choices - direct payments
Support to direct payment recipients during Covid-19
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Shropshire Choices - flexible direct payments
Enabling a more creative and flexible use of a direct payment during Covid-19
Workforce
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Care for Kent
Recruitment campaign for the care sector
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Kent Registered Manager Health & Wellbeing Support
Dedicated Covid-19 website section for providers and registered managers particularly focused on wellbeing support
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MacIntyre Charity - Learning Disabilities Admiral Nursing in a Pandemic
Expert support to people with learning disabilities and dementia
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Somerset Foundation Trust
Supporting the wellbeing of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic colleagues during Covid-19