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24th March 2010

Personal Budgets for Older People – Making it Happen

NDTi has been working with the Putting People First delivery team at the Department of Health to publish their new guide on Personal Budgets and Older People – Making it Happen. Click on the report cover (to the right) for a copy of this guide.

16th March 2010

Paths to Personalisation in Mental Health : A whole system, whole life framework

NDTi has written Paths to Personalisation on behalf of the Department of Health and the National Mental Health Development Unit (NMHDU).This whole system guide has been produced to help all those involved understand how things will need to be done differently to make personalisation a reality for people with mental health needs. Click on the report cover (to the right) for a copy of Paths to Personalisation. For more information, please see the NMHDU website.

4th March 2010

CONSULTATION PAPER - ADULT SOCIAL CARE

The Law Commission has published a consultation paper on Adult Social Care setting out provisional proposals for the reform of the law relating to adult social care. The aiim of the consultation is to provide a new, more logcial legal structure.

The consultation paper, and supporting documents, can be downloaded from the Law Commission website at http://www.lawcom.gov.uk/adult_social_care.htm

This is a four month consultation lasting until 1st July 2010, and is open to the public

13th January 2010

FEBRUARY DAY SERVICES MODERNISATION NETWORK MEETING

The first Day Services Modernisation Network meeting of 2010 will explore ‘Day Services and Partnership Working’. An important element of this is how day services work effectively with other mental health services, but the meeting will focus primarily on working in a joined up, partnership way with mainstream community services and organisations.

The meeting will take place in Manchester on 10^th February from 11am-3pm, and will include presentations from people who have some great experience of delivering through partnerships.

The Network is aimed at Managers and Senior Managers involved in the development and modernisation of mental health day services. Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

Network Co-ordinating Organisations
Other Voluntary Sector Providers
Statutory Sector Providers
Commissioners

To book a place, please contact nick.bowles@richmondfellowship.org.uk

THE SOCIAL INCLUSION WEBSITE IS CHANGING

Expect to see some changes to the website at www.socialinclusion.org.uk as it completes its migration to the Inclusion Institute and loses the National Social Inclusion Programme (NSIP) branding.

The links and web address will be the same, and the section on Day Services will be similar, but it will be a new site for a new organisation. NSIP closed in March 2009, and to ensure the resources remain available to all, the Inclusion Institute has taken over the site.

The Inclusion Institute is led by Prof. David Morris, and is part of the International School for Communities, Rights and Inclusion (ISCRI) at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). The Institute takes forward the work of the cross-government National Social Inclusion Programme as a centre of excellence for learning, evidence, innovation and practice on inclusion in the context of both personalisation and sustainable, engaged communities.

Based at Kings Fund, London as well as Preston, Lancashire, the Inclusion Institute utilises the philosophy, expertise and learning resources of the National Social Inclusion Programme, working co-productively with citizens to build a sustainable and practical evidence base on inclusion, linked to local support for development and practice. Ben Taylor is continuing to lead the Day Services workstream for the Inclusion Institute.

NEW HORIZONS AND MORE

You’d have been hard pressed to miss the launch of the Government’s new Mental Health Strategy, New Horizons, last week (for more information and to download go to http://newhorizons.dh.gov.uk/index.aspx.

1st January 2010

Rob Greig, Chief Executive of the NDTi was awarded a CBE for services to people with special needs in the Queen's New Year's Honours.

Congratulations Rob.

16th December 2009

The Transforming Adult Social Care (tasc) board have launched a website containing a lot of personalisation-related material. http://www.tasc.org.uk/

14th December 2009

Four reports were published on 7th December 2009, which collectively set out the Government's new approach on mental health:

New Horizons : A shared vision for mental health, the Department of Health's new framework to enable England's strategic health authorities to deliver their regional plans for improving mental health and mental health services. Read more
Work, Recovery and Inclusion : employment support for people in contact with mental health services, a new government delivery strategy that sets out a series of actions that will help meet the aspirations of people in contact with secondary mental health services who want to work. Read more
Working our Way to Better Mental Health: a framework for action is the Government's first ever cross-government national mental health and employment strategy. Read more
Realising Ambitions: Better employment support for people with a mental health condition is an independent review led by Rachel Perkins. It examines how we can strengthen employment, health and wider state support to help people with mental conditions on out of work benefits. Read more

8th December 2009

Department of Health's Co-production Guide Launched today!

This new guide on “coproduction” with older people sets out 7 principles to help local authorities and their partners, including local communities, work together and improve older people’s influence at all levels of service commissioning and delivery. It was co-produced by a small team of people working together over a period of four months to capture what ‘co-production’ means and how we’ll know it’s happening with older people who need support in their lives. The team included older people, strategic leads/senior managers in three local authorities and representatives from HSA and NDTi. Read more

A set of postcards illustrating the principles has also been produced. Please click here to see the postcards.

18th November 2009

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation have today published a report on older people's voice, choice and control. This report was written by NDTi in conjunction with an excellent Advisory Board. Thank you to all involved. Read Full Report or Summary Report

12th November 2009

New Commissioner Development Programme Announced. Read more

1st October 2009

UK Older Persons Day

Today we are pleased to announce the launch of a new resource on Independent Living and Older People (known as Rilop) commissioned by the Office for Disability Issues and coproduced with local authorities and older people. This resource is designed to help strategic managers working in local authorities to implement practical strategies for increasing the voice, choice and control that older people have over any support they need to go about their everyday lives.

Click here to go straight to this new resource. Email Michele Lee to comment on the resource OR to share your own story about making independent living a reality for older people. Thank you!

Other news from the Older People & Ageing Programme:
- we have been commissioned to develop a toolkit for local authorities and the NHS on ending age discrimination in health and social care
- we are working with colleagues on the Isle of Wight and in Surrey to develop personalized services and support for all adults needing support and their carers
- we are working with a network of organizations and communities in Oxfordshire, West Sussex and Portsmouth, the South East Regional Offices and a cross government project board convened by ODI, to embed independent living for older people with high support needs
- we are working with four NGO's in Northern Ireland and the Atlantic Philanthropies to evaluate their Changing Ageing Partnership
- we are working with colleagues in Dorset to evaluate 5 small scale pilots in establishing self directed support for different people across the county
- we are working the governments Ageing Strategy Stakeholder Team to facilitate a series of 19 consultation events on Building A Society for All Ages, our national strategy on ageing out for consultation until mid October

28th September 2009

New member of the NDTi Team ...

NDTi are delighted to welcome Linda Offord to the Team as Development Consultant.

Linda's task is to deliver our expanding work with central and local government, the NHS and independent sector and contribute to NDTi work concerned with encouraging debate and changing policy and culture in order to help promote excluded people living more inclusive lives.

24th September 2009

Launch of a New Housing and Social Inclusion Project

The National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) is launching a new project on the 1^st of October, with 8 local authority partners. The project, which is partly funded through a Department of Health Section 64 grant, will support people with learning disabilities to move from residential care to housing and support options which promote community inclusion.

The following 8 local authority areas are involved in this project :

Bradford
Essex
Gloucestershire
Halton
Islington
North Tyneside
Sandwell
Slough

After assisting perhaps 150 organisations to develop socially inclusive practice, the NDTi has now developed a rapid review process to check out whether local policies, practices and monitoring systems are working. Contact NDTi to book a review of your service. Read more

5th August 2009

NDTi have appointed five new Associate Consultants to work with us in managing and leading change around our major work programmes and themes. Welcome to Maggie Beat, John Hersov, Sara Dunn, Marc Mordey and Kay Steven.

4th August 2009

The NDTi (in partnership with the University of Lancaster) has been commissioned by the Department for Children Schools and Families to carry out an evaluation of the Aiming High for Disabled Children Short Breaks Pathfinder Programme.

3rd August 2009

New Horizons: towards a shared vision for mental health - consultation. Sets out to target the root causes of mental illness and support the local development of higher quality, more personalised services. It explores the prevention of mental illness and earlier intervention when things go wrong. It also looks at how services can become more innovative and work more effectively together.

The consultation runs from 23rd July 2009 to 15th October 2009. read more

28th July 2009

The Government has launched the Green Paper on Social Care - Shaping the Future of Care Together. Shaping the Future of Care Together sets out a vision for a new care and support system. read more

The consultation on the green paper will run from 14th July 2009 to 13th November 2009. read more

27th July 2009

Building a Society for all Ages

The Government's Ageing strategy, published in July 2009. Building a Society for all Ages develops the Government's 2005 strategy Opportunity Age. The report can be found on the following website link, which also has a link to the consultation page where contributions can be made until Monday the 12th of October. Read more.

24th June 2009

Valuing Employment Now: Real Jobs for People with Learning Disabilities

New goal to get more people with learning disabilities into work.

The Social Exclusion Task Force, in partnership with the Department of Health and the Department for Work and Pensions, has led the publication of a cross-government Learning Disability Employment Strategy, called Valuing Employment Now: Real Jobs For People With Learning Disabilities.

The strategy sets out a vision to increase the number of real jobs for people with learning disabilities with appropriate support being provided, and close the employment gap with their employment rate and that of the disabled population as a whole.

The strategy was launched on 24 June 2009 by Phil Hope, Minister for Care Services, DH; Jonathan Shaw, Minister for Disabled People, DWP; and Angela Smith, Minister of State for the Cabinet Office. read more

22nd June 2009

More control for disabled people

Work and Pensions Secretary, Yvette Cooper has launched a national consultation that could change the lives of disabled people.

The ‘Right to Control’ will give disabled people greater power over how they use the funding they receive from the state. It recognises that disabled people are experts in their own lives and have the right to choice and control over their support.

Under the new scheme, disabled people will be able to choose who delivers their services and how they receive them. They can have as much or as little control as they wish and can spend money on whatever helps them to live with greater independence and freedom.

Right to Control is a major part of the Government’s vision to achieve equality for disabled people by 2025.

For more information about the consultation, visit the Office for Disability Issues website, or call 020 7449 5093.

United Nations Convention

DSO 5 focuses on improving choices and opportunities for disabled people by removing barriers to equality and promoting their economic and social participation, measured by:

Narrowing further the gap between overall employment rate and the employment rate of disabled people;
Improving disabled people’s perceptions of their choice and control; and

Improving access to goods and services for disabled people.

For further information, please visit the ODI and DWP websites.

13th June 2009

Dame Philippa Russell On 13th June 2009, NDTi board member Philippa Russell MBE was made a Dame in the Queen's Birthday Honours. Philppa is also Chair of the Government's Standing Commission on Carers.

Also honoured was Anne Macfarlane MBE. Anne was awarded an OBE for services to disabled people and is an Associate Consultant with NDTi.

5th May 2009

Counsel and Care VotingAge Manifesto

VotingAge has produced this older people's Manifesto to present to the three main political parties in the lead up to the next general election. The Older People's Programme facilitated the workshops with older people to help develop this manifesto for Counsel and Care.

1st May 2009

Lord Bradley's review of people with mental health problems or learning disabilities in the criminal justice system