Shaping Our Lives is looking for 15 people to take part in a small discussion to help a General Social Care Council research project to find out service user views about the registration of domiciliary care workers (homecare workers). Please get in touch if you are someone who uses domiciliary care services and you would like to take part (see end of this document to find out what information we need). We can only invite people who use domiciliary care. We will try and invite a wide range of people to take part in this discussion but places are very limited. This is the first small step in a larger research project about the registration of domiciliary care workers, so even if you can’t take part in this discussion you will be able to tell the GSCC your views at a later date.
We will pay a fee of £150 for taking part in this small discussion and we will cover all expenses and support costs. The discussion group meeting will take place in London on 21st February 2008 from 10.30am – 3.30pm.
For further information, and a reply slip please click here.
Shaping Our Lives was asked by the General Social Care Council (GSCC) to set up a consultation meeting with service users as part of a process in which the government is looking at the work of social workers, to see how it might need to change to fit the needs of the 21st century. Similar reviews have taken place in Scotland and Wales.
Shaping Our Lives, in association with other service user organisations, is also putting together a report which is based on what many service users have said and written about social work over the years. We hope that this will influence the review in a helpful way and ensure that more service user voices are heard.
We worked on with the Social Care Workforce Research Unit at King’s College London to help produce a Practice Guide for the Social Care Institute for Excellence on the participation of service users in social care. This will be published soon and we will put a link to it here.
A collaboration with the Edward Lear Foundation – a disability think-tank, independent of the Disability Rights Commission or any other organisation – to identify the barriers faced by disabled people, as a basis for a regular survey which will enable the Commission to check whether the Disability Discrimination Act is leading to real improvements for disabled people in the areas that really matter to us.
