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| Making it Real - 207 organisations pledge their commitment | |
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To date, 207 organisations, including 25 councils, have demonstrated their commitment to the Think Local Act Personal Partnership's flagship personalisation project, Making it Real.
Making it Real is about:
- Working with people who use services and carers to identify the top three priorities for co-producing organisational change
- Making these priorities and action plans publicly available
- Regularly reviewing progress with people who use services, carers and citizens to ensure progression with personalisation and community-based support. |
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| Think Local Act Personal welcomes new partners | |
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Think Local Act Personal is pleased to welcome both the National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) and the British Association for Supported Employment (BASE) into the partnership. Both are national organisations that have committed to the principles and objectives set out in the Think Local Act Personal Partnership Agreement.
NDTi and BASE will also use and promote Making it Real, as well as encouraging their partners and membership organisations to do the same. The Think Local Act Personal team will be meeting with both organisations soon to agree how they will contribute to our work programme in 2012/13. |
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| NDTi and Dimensions Families and Personalisation Project - Commissioned by Local Authorities | |
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Two years ago the NDTi and Dimensions identified a shared concern about how families of people with learning disabilities were, or more commonly were not, becoming truly involved in and benefiting from the personalisation process.
NDTi's Bill Love says, "For the last 18 months the NDTi and Dimensions have been working with families to understand how we, local authorities and service providers can work at a very local level to engage with, inform and support families to achieve real individual outcomes beyond just a personal budget.
We believe that the programme has raised some very interesting issues that question how statutory agencies are engaging families, what support and information needs families have, how providers can connect to families and the potential for increasing local leadership.
In the next few months we will be disseminating information under each of these themes, the first, 'Families and personalisation - some thinking for local statutory agencies', is available." |
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| DPULO calls for ambassadors | |
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The Strengthening Disabled People's User-led Organisation (DPULOs) Programme is calling for further ambassadors to work with community organisations to enable disabled people to play an active role and have a stronger voice in their local community.
DPULO Ambassadors can help progress personalisation by:
- Encourage their local councils and service providers to sign up to Making it Real
- DPULOs who provide services may also sign up to demonstrate their commitment to personalisation and their support for Making it Real.
Current Ambassador, Rachael Wallach says, "Making it Real is a great opportunity for DPULOs to ensure disabled people have choice and control and a strong voice in their local areas when it comes to social care." |
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| Think Local Act Personal responds to the latest ADASS survey of personal budgets take up | |
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Think Local Act Personal Co-Chairs, Sue Bott and Bill Davidson commented on the ADASS Personal Budgets 2012 Survey, which highlighted the use of personal budgets increasing by nearly 40 per cent.
"The Think Local Act Personal Partnership is pleased to see a continued rise in the numbers of personal budgets and a significant increase in expenditure on direct payments. A number of issues continue to need good attention. We recommend that councils focus strongly on checking the results of personal budgets and how they are improving the outcomes for their local populations, using this information to improve local strategies. Councils need to ensure that when people are taking the option of a managed personal budget they are exercising significant choice and control - including through methods such as individual service funds. Importantly, councils should continue to strive to improve the offer of direct payments to all, including those groups where the current take up is lower. They will also need to consider whether the level of a personal budget is sufficient, for example, to enable people to fulfil responsibilities as an employer. Think Local Act Personal's self directed support forum is pleased to be working with a wide range of partners including ADASS and the Department of Health to develop ways in which personal budgets can work well for people, including for older people and people with dementia." |
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| Think Local Act Personal review to address concerns that personal budgets are not working as well for older people | |
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Community Care's Mithram Samuel writes:
"A review will be held into how personal budgets can work better for older people in response to calls from adult directors to examine barriers to take-up and successful outcomes for the group.
The review will be led by Think Local Act Personal, the sector coalition set up to help implement personalisation, and will seek to find solutions to the problems afflicting personal budgets for older people, drawing on existing good practice."
Think Local Act Personal Programme Manager Martin Routledge said, " the two-part inquiry, conducted with the Social Care Institute for Excellence, would look at how older people who wanted them could access direct payments, while also ensuring council-managed personal budgets provided genuine choice and control for those who did not want a cash payment. Good practice measures will then be incorporated into peer reviews of local authorities, conducted under the sector-led Towards Excellence in Adult Social Care programme". |
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| Building Community Capacity - Evidence for what works | |
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The Building Community Capacity project has been gathering evidence of better outcomes and cost-effectiveness for some time and has put them all into a resource.
Topics covered, include:
- Issues and evidence for why organisations should focus on social capital
- Social capital ventures potential to improve quality of life for individuals and communities and to save money
We hope you find the briefings and presentations helpful when writing your own reports and business cases. |
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