This page is currently being developed and a fuller list will be available in time.
This document outlines the benefits that local organisations, and their residents, enjoy when they work with user-led organisations. These benefits range from helping local authorities deliver greater personalisation to improved engagement with hard-to-reach population groups.
It provides advice on how local authorities can form meaningful relationships with user-led organisations and outlines support provided by the Department of Health.
Finally, the document provides local authorities with a series of links to other resources with further information about user-led organisations.
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Care is a contentious
policy concept. Numbers
of people needing care are rising. Radical change is planned for care
policy to increase choice
and control through personalisation’. A new
conceptual framework
is now needed to take
forward policy and
practice for the twenty first
century if people’s rights and needs are to be met.We would be very interested to hear what you think about these issues. Please get in touch with us at information@shapingourlives.org.uk
Click here to download a PDF copy of this publication
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Peter Beresford, Chair of Shaping Our Lives, gave oral evidence to the Public Adminstration Select Committee regarding user involvement and some of his contributions are included in this report.
An article by Shaping Our Lives Chair, Peter Beresford, about payments for user involvement and barriers caused by the benefit system.
We would like to know about your experiences as a service user or service provider on this issue, both positive and negative. Please email: jenny@shapingourlives.org.uk. All responses will be treated confidentially.
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This guide aims to support local health and social care organisations with the principles and practice of reimbursing and paying service users for their involvement.
It aims to provide some consistency of approach and ensure that service users are treated fairly and appropriately according to their circumstances, so that they are able to make an informed choice about the arrangements concerning their involvement.
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Guest edited by Advocacy in Action/Suresearch Collective.
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The adult social care Green Paper reflects service user views – up to a point. The watch words of the Government's Green Paper on adult social care appear to be: independence, well-being and choice. It shows ministers have listened to service users, who have emphasised how important these values are. It is not clear, however, whether the Government is really committed to backing up these positive words with resources.
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