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  • The Gloucestershire Young Carers Forum
    The Gloucestershire Young Carers Forum 'Our Voice' meets regularly to discuss young carers' issues and has representatives from all of the young carer groups across the county. 'Our Voice' not only plays an important part in decision making processes but also raises awareness about young carers.
  • Listening to Young Carers
    The Children's Society, in partnership with the Princess Royal Trust for Carers, have supported the development of the first National Young Carers Forum for England. Members of the forum have made a DVD called Listening to Young Carers, in which the young people talk about the issues they face and share solutions that will help improve their lives.
  • Young carers: whole family approaches and personalisation
    ADASS December 2011 The focus of this paper is on young carers and how personalisation and whole family approaches can support them to have the opportunities that other young people enjoy. Good personalised support means meeting individual needs in a way that recognises and promotes each person's immediate family (and community) role/s and network.
  • Making it Real: Marking progress towards personalised, community based support (Easy ready version)
    The Easy Read document below gives an overview of the Making it Real framework.
  • Transforming social care through Direct Payments event resources
    Between November 2011 and March 2012 The Think Local Act Personal partnership and the National Centre for Independent Living are joining forces to deliver a series of 9 regional events for England aimed at supporting councils to make significant improvements to the take up of direct payments and work towards making them the preferred way of delivering personal budgets. Aimed at Senior Commissioners and Operational managers and providers, the events follow the launch of Think Local Act Personal's (TLAP's) guidance on Direct Payments, TLAP Improving Direct Payments Delivery which was launched on 21st October at this years NCAS conference.
  • A Positive Approach to Risk & Personalisation
    This paper, commissioned by the West Midlands Joint Improvement Partnership (JIP) provides a framework for Councils in shifting the balance away from risk aversion towards supported positive risk taking. The aim is to share risk between the individual using services (regardless of funding source), their family, carers, professional care staff, third parties and the Council.
  • Leaner approaches to council operating systems
    Think Local, Act Personal has developed new advice and thinking around how to reduce bureaucracy by developing three linked papers:Adult Social Care Minimum Process Framework Improving Direct Payment Delivery Re-thinking Support Planning: Ideas for an Alternative Approach These three linked papers show that to achieve good results that make a difference to people's lives, there needs to be simplicity and clarity around the processes of Personal Budgets.
  • Making it Real: Marking progress towards personalised, community based support
    The document below gives an overview of the Making it Real framework.
  • Dystonia Carers Initiative
    Development of the support that The Dystonia Society provides for people who care for individuals living with dystonia - a debilitating neurological movement disorder. The project aimed to: Help people who provide care identify themselves as Carers Ensure that the personal welfare and needs of carers is considered Support carers in their caring role through provision of information and direct support This project involved the development of Helpline support, signposting of services and the production of new resources specifically for carers.
  • Oversight of user choice and provider competition in care markets
    This report is an early evaluation of market delivery in care. The recommendations are intended to inform Government thinking as it develops proposals for the forthcoming White Paper on the future of social care, and responds to the Dilnot Commission's July 2011 report on the funding of social care.