About Shaping Our Lives
What do we want?
Shaping Our Lives National User Network’s vision is of a society which is equal and fair where all people have the same opportunities, choices, rights and responsibilities – a society where people have choice and control over the way they live and the support services they use.
What are our aims?
- to support the development of local user involvement that aims to deliver better outcomes for service users
- to give a shared voice to user controlled organisations
- to facilitate service user involvement at a national level
- to work across all user groups in an equal and accessible manner
- to improve the quality of support people receive
- to enable groups to link to other user-controlled groups
- to develop links with world wide international user-controlled organisations.
Our working values
Shaping Our Lives will:
- reflect the priorities and needs of its member organisations
- encourage user-controlled organisations to learn both from each other and from wider best practice
- reflect the diversity of the network in its work
- apply equal opportunities practice in its governance, practice and as an employer.
How is Shaping Our Lives structured?
Shaping Our Lives has a Management Group, a National User Group and also network and associate network members. Click here to see the Shaping Our Live structure diagram. (Word document)
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