This page will be regularly updated with news of Shaping Our Lives' work and other information that we are asked to pass on to user groups. This will include details of meetings that we are holding that we need representatives of user groups to attend.
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The aim of this day was to provide an opportunity for a wide range of service users to meet together to say what they thought about existing welfare/social policy and how they would like to see it change and improve for the future. The report from this will provide a basis for influencing social policy development and discussions. It will be available shortly on this website. We would like to thank the ‘Journal of Critical Social Policy’ for showing their support for service user involvement by funding this event.
The Joint Participation Steering Group (JPSG) is a network of representatives from national regulatory and standard-setting organisations in health and social care. The network also includes a small number of national organisations representing people who use health and social care services. The JPSG aims to share understanding and best practice on how to involve people who use social care and health services. Members of the JPSG have been working together to consider the benefit barriers to involvement. A wider group of organisations have formed an informal consortium to progress this work further.
As part of the JPSG, Shaping Our Lives organised a small seminar on 22 May 2007 to bring together interested parties, including user-led organisations, people who use services and government officials, as a means of exchanging information about the benefit barriers, with a view to identifying some practical solutions. A report will be available shortly.
Shaping Our Lives started this project in July 2005. It is funded by the Department of Health ‘Section 64’ funding scheme.
