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Hi,
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What would you get if you ate a Christmas decoration?
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Tinsillitis
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And what could you do if you felt discombaublated with social care jargon –
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You could check out our Jargon Sleigher –oops Jargon Buster!
It offers Gold, Making Sense and Mirth and will help you use the correct wording for your Sanity Claus.
Wishing you all a very happy & safe festive season from the team at Think Ho Ho Act Personal!
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Building Community Capacity Practitioner’s Network meeting - 16th January
The meeting will focus on evidence. We will look at how we gather evidence, how we use it, what would ‘good enough’ look like, and how we avoid getting caught in the ‘evidence trap’, whereby innovation stalls due to a perceived lack of compelling evidence.
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Constructive conversations -26th January
A fragile care market and the challenges in social care makes it more important than ever to have constructive conversations between providers, commissioners and people who use services. Stronger Partnerships for Better Outcomes, a document produced by TLAP previously, outlines this approach.
A free event hosted by Think Local Act Personal and the Local Government Association in London aims to understand the different perspectives and promote constructive ways forward through stronger and more effective partnerships. There’s a few places available.
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Person-centred care and support in residential and nursing settings - 22nd Feb
The next Care Markets and Quality Forum event in Manchester will look at good examples of community based approaches for personalising residential and nursing care. We particularly encourage providers, and people who use services & carers to come.
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Prospective alignment of TLAP and C4CC
Our recent partners' meeting was well attended. We discussed plans for a closer alignment with the Coalition for Collaborative Care. Partners and people with lived experience debated the benefits as well as the risks for ensuring its success and the prospect was generally welcomed.
The proposed Green paper was also up for discussion and we heard two minute pitches from a range of speakers on what they hope to see in it and how we may support its delivery.
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Helping to strengthen the evidence-base – new member joins TLAP
Research in Practice for Adults (RipFA) is welcomed to the TLAP Partnership. Assistant Director Lisa Smith said,
“We know Think Local Act Personal’s expertise will be invaluable to our work and in turn believe our evidence-informed approach to practice can support the TLAP partnership. People's lived experiences are a crucial source of evidence, and we look forward to strengthening this together”.
We believe work to develop robust evidence base for the impact of personalisation on the lives of people would improve take up, so we see this as a very positive step.
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Visitor from down under
TLAP convened a fascinating meeting with David Cullen, Principal Economist for the Australian National Disability Insurance Agency, which several of our key partners attended. There was a lively exchange of views on the merits of the respective approaches; in Australia the principle of the scheme is based on ‘living an ordinary life’ and is paid for by a small uplift in tax. Economists have determined that real GDP will be 0.2 per cent larger in 2020 than it otherwise would have been,as a result of the introduction of the NDIS. The scheme enjoys widespread public support.
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Community Led Support Programme leads to a quicker response, better staff morale and budget savings
Nine local authorities have found that by working differently, significant improvements are taking place. Key ingredients include strong leadership that helps staff innovate and co-produce improvements. These were the findings of NDTi’s publication What works in Community Led Support.
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Adult Social Work Service User survey
If you have used adult social work services or someone close to you has you can help with future research.
The James Lind Alliance is working with RiPfA to ensure that future research makes a real difference to the lives of people who use adult social work services and which improves the quality of care and support. To find out more, please visit www.bit.ly/ASWresearch
The survey closes in January 2018.
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Measuring productivity in social care survey
Productivity is falling in the UK with a knock on effect to the economy. Skills for Care are investigating how this impacts the social care workforce. They have published an assessment paper and now want to hear the views of employers and managers in adult social care.
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Why do I care?
“We talk a lot about the importance of people who need care & support having choice and control over how that support is provided” Sharon Allen, Chief Executive of Skills for Care describes what is being done to help with this and how you can get involved.
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Prize Surprise
Chris McKenzie, Assistant Director Adult Social Care from Medway Council has won TLAP’s prize draw for a free bespoke co-production session with Cat Duncan-Rees, TLAP co-production policy advisor and Alex Fox, Chief Executive of Shared Lives Plus. On winning the prize, Chris said, “I’m hoping that my free session with TLAP will help to support a refresh of our approach to engagement and co-production”.
Carl Freeman from Guide Dogs is the winner of the SCIE Co-production one day course. He said, “This is very timely as we are looking to adopt more empowering approaches in the support we provide to our service users and I will have some significant responsibility in taking this work forward. And we recognise that co-production of materials and processes is a vital part of that. The work will kick off in 2018. So this is a most fortuitous turn of events".
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Jobs and voluntary opportunities
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Lay member quality standards advisory committee at NICE
NICE are inviting applications from people with an understanding of the issues important to people using health and social care services, as well as unpaid carers and the public.
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