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- Leadership for Empowered and Healthy Communities EVENTS
This national programme, initiated by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), will bring together senior leaders from across the country to explore how senior leaders can grow and nurture local social capital in order to build stronger communities and improve health and wellbeing. The programme, which has been developed through a partnership between the National Skills Academy for Social Care, Skills for Care, NHS South of England (Central), the Think Local Act Personal Partnership and the Local Government Association's Ageing Well Programme, will help to shape the national debate around communities, co-production and public sector leadership. - Best Practice in Direct Payments Support
Best Practice in Direct Payment Support: A guide for commissioners was originally funded by the London Joint Improvement Partnership and describes how to commission really good direct payments support by showcasing examples of innovative practice. It provides a practical toolkit to benchmark against best practice, identify gaps and build a shared view with local people and providers of how to develop the support needed to make DPs an attractive option for more people. - NESTA Neighbourhood Challenge
NESTA's Neighbourhood Challenge project is developing new ways of supporting community-led innovation in order to release creative potential within local communities. This interim paper explores their two main insights so far - that communities, even those with low social capital, have the potential to generate their own solutions to their own priorities. - What Makes Us Healthy?
What Makes Us Healthy? will inspire and support those who want to look again at what they are doing to improve health and wellbeing and to tackle health inequalities. It contains specially commissioned articles on the evidence for the beneficial effects of assets such as social relationships and networks on health and wellbeing; many examples and ideas about how to put asset principles into practice; and support with the tricky issue of evaluation and how to assess whether the new ways of working are having an impact. - Sustainable social care and personalisation: a guide for community engagement
This guide will help commissioners and providers of adult social care, as well as community groups, to engage with citizens to develop responsive, personalised and environmentally sustainable services. Personalisation continues to be a challenging concept for many, despite the benefits it offers. - Local Area Coordination in England
Local Area Co-ordination, (LAC), is an innovative approach to supporting people who are vulnerable through age, frailty, disability or mental health issues achieve their vision for a good life, to support people to contribute to their communities and to strengthen the capacity of communities to welcome and include people. Local Area Coordination is built on the assumption that people who may be vulnerable due to age, disability or mental health needs are not just "passive recipients" of social and health care, but have expertise, gifts, strengths that can help them achieve their vision for a good life, contribute to their local communities and "maximise the impact of resources" (Bartnik, 2008). - Gloucestershire Stroke Club Development Service run by The Stroke Association
The Stroke Association's Stroke Club Development Service was set up in June 2010 to provide an opportunity for stroke survivors and their carers to set up new support groups in their locality. The project is funded in collaboration with NHS Gloucestershire and Gloucestershire Council. - Shared Lives Case study
Alison and Mark run a pub in a seaside town. Neil, who has a learning disability, spent a lot of time drinking in pubs around the town, and gradually spent more and more time at Alison's pub. - Micro enterprise case studies
Carita (who has also been a Shared Lives carer) launched Funky Fitness and Fun in 2007 as a small social care enterprise after realising that the closure of day services had resulted in a lack of activity for some people. The programme of activities is co-designed by the 15 people who use the service and takes place in a community centre. - Timebanking in Newsome, Huddersfield
Newsome Ward Timebanking is Huddersfield's first timebanking project. It was started by people in Newsome with the support of United Response, as a means of giving everybody the opportunity to participate in their community.