We have just received funding for a new one year project. More details about this project will be added soon. We will be looking for five user controlled organisations to help us with this work - details will be posted on SOLNET, our networking website at www.solnetwork.org.uk
This is a three year project which started in July 2005 and is funded by Department of Health ‘Section 64’. Click here for more about Beyond the Usual Suspects.
This is a two year project which started in January 2006, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. It is working with eight partner services across the UK to develop person-centred support and now starting work on its final report. Click here to visit the Standards We Expect website.
This project has been going informally for some years but funding from SCIE has enabled ideas to become a reality and the networking site at www.solnetwork.org.uk has now been running for over a year. Have a look at the site to find out more!
This work is funded by the Social Care Institute for Excellence. Shaping Our Lives runs a reference group which has helped inform policy in this area and has worked on a number of publications. See the publications section of this site for details.
More details will be added soon.
Shaping Our Lives set up four development projects in the year 2000 to test out the findings that came out of its initial research on user perspectives on outcomes.
These four projects were based with the following groups:
Service Users’ Action Forum – Wakefield: working with a group of older people
Ethnic Disabled People Emerged (EDGE) – Manchester
Footprints (UK) and Walthamstow Black Mental Health Service User Group – North London
Black User Group – West London
Click here for more about the Outcomes Development Projects.
OVIOF is a subsidiary project run by Shaping Our Lives as part of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Future of Rights and Welfare programme.
Shaping Our Lives started as a research project in 1996 looking at service users’ perspectives on outcomes. It was a response to service providers, politicians and academics placing an increasing emphasis on assessing support services in terms of their outcomes, ie their results.
Early in 2000 Shaping Our Lives undertook a short project to assess users’ views on the codes of conduct and practice being introduced for social care workers and employers. The views expressed reflect on the proposed codes and on the general qualities and standards that users want from social care.
