Health and Social Care
Co‑operatives and other forms of social enterprise in UK are delivering health and social care as well as related support services including: out of hours primary care, nurse-led primary care, mental health early intervention services, dentistry, chiropodists, occupational therapists, complementary health services, fostering services, personal and home care, living aids, direct payment support services, child care, child care voucher schemes and a range of other related services including laundry, grounds maintenance, food and catering.
Social Care
The following conference explores the current Personalisation Agenda
Mutual Responses to Personalisation
Communities and service users setting up their own care providers in response to the direct payments and personalisation agendas
Thursday the 11th of June 2009 11.am - 3.30 pm
Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre, London SE1 9NH
We are inviting you to a practical conference where you can hear at firsthand how four groups of people used direct payments to set up new care services that they control themselves.
The conference - aimed at health service professionals and social care experts in local authorities and elsewhere - will explore the findings of our three year action research project funded by the Department of Health (Section 64) to pilot co‑operatives and other mutual models for those in receipt of direct payments, particularly the elderly. Given the importance of the personalisation agenda and the need to fundamentally alter the traditional relationship between people and councils, handing back real control to individuals, our project offers some new support models and practical learning.
Our work has been challenging, but we have developed four pilots testing different approaches to offer both support and empowerment to the service users, families and care staff. The pilots are taking place in Croydon, Leicestershire, Barking & Dagenham and Worthing, with the co‑operation and support of the local authorities, and the event will involve the direct payment recipients and other stakeholders in the ventures describing the process and the benefits of these models.
- Caring Support, Croydon
- Oadby and Wigston District in partnership with Leicestershire County Council
- Barking and Dagenham partnership with Age Concern
- West Sussex Independent Living Association
This is small invitation only event with a limited number of places which will be allocated on a first come first served basis. Please use the attached booking form to reserve your place today. Click here
The cost for attendance is £50 inc VAT (£42.50 exc VAT). Places for members of
Co‑operativesUK are free.
Mutual Responses to Personalisation is organised by Co‑operatives UK and Mutual Advantage (Mick Taylor and Sipi Hameenaho). The event is part of a Department of Health project developing mutual models for direct payment recipients, and will be chaired by Dame Pauline Green .
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