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- Queen's speech 2012: Draft bill on social care announced
Posted on: 10/05/2012A draft bill on overhauling care and support for elderly and disabled people in England has been announced in the Queen's Speech. - Invitation to participate in an exciting new health and social care leadership programme
Posted on: 02/05/2012This 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. - NESTA Neighbourhood Challenge
Posted on: 20/04/2012NESTA's Neighbourhood Challenge project is developing new ways of supporting community-led innovation in order to release creative potential within local communities. - Best Practice in Direct Payment Support
Posted on: 20/04/2012Best 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. - Find out more about Personal Health budgets
Posted on: 27/03/2012The March update of the personal health budget newsletter is now available to download. Catch up with the important news from the personal health budget pilots - Sustainable social care and personalisation: a guide for community engagement
Posted on: 12/03/2012This 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. - Simple but powerful: making community leadership work in practice
Posted on: 21/02/2012This is the latest in a series of posts in anticipation of new research from OPM about what local government can do to unlock local capacity. - Webchat on personalisation
Posted on: 10/01/2012On Thursday 12 January at 2pm David Behan and Martin Routledge will host a webchat on personalisation in social care. This presents a unique opportunity for you to ask questions, and to join the conversation around personalisation - TLAP response to White Paper consultation
Posted on: 09/01/2012TLAP issue a response to the Department of Health's Caring for our future White Paper Consultation. - Creating stronger and more inclusive communities which value everyone's right to contribute
Posted on: 12/09/2011NAAPS, Centre for Inclusive Futures, Community Catalysts, New Economics Foundation, KeyRing, CSV and independent consultant John Gillespie launch a new report today - Enterprise for all - A Practical Guide for enterprising people
Posted on: 07/09/2011Community Catalysts publish a new guide to support people faced with an illness or disability establish their own services. - Developing community skills and neighbourhood workforce plans
Posted on: 07/09/2011Skills for Care is working with fourteen projects in neighbourhoods and communities across England to test out a practical approach to enabling skilled communities. This two-stage process is defined as Neighbourhood Workforce Planning (understanding and planning workforce development at a neighbourhood level) and Community Skills Development (finding innovative and unique ways to improve specific skills related to specific support issues in a particular community). - National Children and Adult Services Conference 2011
Posted on: 08/08/2011The National Children and Adult Services Conference and exhibition will take place at the International Convention Centre (ICC) London ExCel on 19 to 21 October 2011. - Personalisation and possibilities - learning lessons from enterprising people
Posted on: 27/07/2011Announcing two learning events aimed at helping everyone involved in shaping social care services to learn from the innovative solutions when it comes to offering personalised support from micro providers. These events are hosted by Community Catalysts and will be held in Manchester and Birmingham, in September. Community Catalysts is a social enterprise set up by NAAPS - a formal TLAP partner. - Delivering personalisation in tough times
Posted on: 21/07/2011Martin Routledge speaks at the Children's and Adults Social Care Finance conference in Leeds. How do we deliver personalisation in this harsh economic climate? View a copy of the presentation that he gave delegates this week. - Dilnot's Fairer Care Funding Report: response from the Think Local, Act Personal Partnership.
Posted on: 04/07/2011The Think Local, Act Personal Partnership welcomes the Dilnot Commission's Fairer Care Funding report published today. We expect the government to provide the leadership the issue now needs and create a lasting settlement fit for the 21st century. - From Putting People First to Think Local, Act Personal
Posted on: 11/04/2011The three year national and regional programme Putting People First ended on 31 March 2011 but all our tools and materials developed during that time are still available on our new-look Think Local, Act Personal website. - Think Local, Act personal Partnership launches sector-led support for personalisation and community-based support
Posted on: 11/04/2011A new programme has been launched to continue efforts in transforming adult social care. Over 30 national organisations representing the broad interest in personalisation and community-based support have committed to the Partnership and will work to improve their own practice in six priority areas, as well as advising and influencing government and other bodies. - LG Group Community Wellbeing Programme Board: Discussion paper - the future of adult social care
Posted on: 13/12/2010The Local Government Group's Community Wellbeing Programme Board recently launched a discussion paper on the future of adult social care in the post-Spending Review context. - Ageing Well Programme: Supporting councils to develop good places to grow older
Posted on: 09/12/2010The Ageing Well programme provides sector-led support to local authorities to promote the independence and wellbeing of older people. Local Government Improvement and Development delivers the programme, which is free to local authorities at the point of use. - Proposal for a new sector-wide partnership agreement to transform adult social care
Posted on: 04/11/2010A Joint release from the "Think Local, Act Personal" ConsortiumCouncils, health bodies and providers need to work more closely to personalise and integrate service delivery across health and adult social care and make vital public funding go further. That's according to a proposed partnership agreement launched today at the National Children's and Adult Social Services conference in Manchester. - Slivers of Time, Shop4Support and dotCommunity in the news
Posted on: 18/03/2010Three pioneering websites for adult social care services are reviewed. - 'The feeling's mutual'
Posted on: 18/03/2010The Guardian writes, 'All the talk is of mutuals being the way forward for public services. Tory leader David Cameron is a champion of the idea, and there is interest from local government services - but how would they work?' - How capable are communities?
Posted on: 18/03/2010The Institute for Public Policy Research writes that greater public involvement in service delivery could bring great rewards, but warns that challenges remain, not least the lack of volunteers. - Building Community Capacity project off to flying start
Posted on: 30/11/2009The first in a series of events for the new social capital learning community was held in November. Over 50 people, including including teams from nine councils across the country, got together to discuss the range of exciting work going on in community development and community capacity-building and how this can contribute to the transformation agenda.