Bureaucracy meets person-centred planning
When something is good, people are tempted to make it mainstream by pulling it into the bureaucracy instead of leaving it with people & community and supporting it where it should be! This is an articulate response to the reasons why we shouldn’t turn Person centred planning into a bureaucratic protocol of the system… you […]
Talking about a Brighter Social Care Future
From standards to better lives
Using POET to bring the NICE personal budgets quality standards to life The National Institute for Health and Social Care Excellence (NICE) has this month published new guidance for adult social care in the form of ‘People’s experience in adult social care services’. It provides quality standards and recommended data sources for these, including the The Personal […]
Social Care Future gathering
An amazing gathering of over 300 people took place in Manchester, coinciding with the National Children and Adult Social Care (NCASC) conference, organised by the volunteers through the #socialcarefutureinitiative (see socialcarefuture.blog) You can ready all about the gathering, download the presentations used and see some of the sessions that were recorded here
Rights of Passage
What is #socialcarefuture and why is In Control supporting it?
by Martin Routledge #socialcarefuture is a voluntarily organised initiative aimed at supporting those wishing to share ideas and information and focus action to bring about major positive change in what is currently called “social care”. Those involved will be citizens, people using public services and their families, workers and professionals, managers and politicians. Our focus […]
Charging for Social Care… a tax on the need for support
The Independent Living Strategy Group recently carried out a study of local authority charges for social care, exploring in particular whether and to what extent the practice of charging is undermining people’s wellbeing, the primary purpose of social care services as set out in the Care Act 2014. We examined some key features of the way local […]
How to be In Control Stories
In this section you’ll find 16 stories from the In Control DVD ‘How to be in control’. The videos feature people with a variety of support needs describing their experience of directing their own support: Kate’s story Julia’s story Helen’s story Gavin’s story Joseph’s story Cindy’s story Angela’s story Craig’s story Evangelo’s story Cyril and […]