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This At a glance briefing examines the implications of the Equality Act 2010 for personalised adult social care. The Equality Act 2010 provides a legal framework which can support personalisation in adult social care. They are both about ensuring individuals receive services that are respectful, effective and accessible. It is essential that care providers from all sectors understand the implications for them.
Personalisation means thinking about care and support services in an entirely different way. This means starting with the person as an individual with strengths, characteristics, preferences and aspirations and putting them at the centre of the process of identifying their needs and making choices about how and when they are supported to live their lives. It requires a significant transformation of adult social care so that all systems, processes, staff and services are geared up to put people first.
The traditional service-led approach has often meant that people have not received the right help at the right time and have been unable to shape the kind of support they need. Personalisation is about giving people much more choice and control over their lives in all social care settings and is far wider than simply giving personal budgets to people eligible for council funding. Personalisation means addressing the needs and aspirations of whole communities to ensure everyone has access to the right information, advice and advocacy to make good decisions about the support they need. It means ensuring that everyone has a wider choice in how their needs are met and can access universal services such as transport, leisure and education, housing, health and opportunities for employment.
Continue reading at: http://www.scie.org.uk/publications/ataglance/ataglance41.asp?dm_i=4O5,ES19,2KMTOY,16O3W,1 |
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The Putting People First toolkit is an on-line resource to support councils to begin to plan and deliver the transformation of their social care systems, as set out in Putting People First. Its main focus is on learning from the Individual Budget Pilot programme. As councils plan their transformation programmes, it is important, of course, to use these materials alongside others which focus on the other key priorities, including early intervention, prevention and efficiency.
For more information visit: http://www.puttingpeoplefirst.org.uk/Topics |
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“We need to have the bravery and the intelligence to rethink from first principles; how public services are delivered and what we think they’re trying to achieve” John Craig, The Innovation Unit, on Social Care TV.
Two new films look at the vital issue of innovation in social care. Innovation is becoming more important, with more demands, growing expectations and constrained resources for social care.
The films feature on Social Care TV, the unique website that hosts films but also allows viewers to watch segments of films, email parts of films to colleagues and houses resources on social care issues.
More information: http://www.scie.org.uk/news/mediareleases/2010/081110.asp |
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The government has launched new guidance to improve the standard of information for people with learning disabilities.
There are an estimated 1.5 million people with learning disabilities in the UK. This guidance will help central and local government organisations understand how they can communicate with all disabled people, including people with learning disabilities.
The guidance focuses on creating Easy Read, which uses simple words and pictures to communicate complex messages. People with learning disabilities are involved in developing the publications to make sure they are easy to understand.
This guidance demonstrates the government’s commitment to ensuring everyone can understand information that affects their everyday lives and can participate in their own community.
More information: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/MediaCentre/Pressreleases/DH_121794 |
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On Tuesday 16 November, the Care Services Minister Paul Burstow launched "A vision for adult social care: Capable communities and active citizens ". The Vision sets out how the Government wishes to see services delivered for people; a new direction for adult social care, putting personalised services and outcomes centre stage.
Publication available at: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_121508 |
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