4/3/2010

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

 

13/1/2010

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 10th 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).

 

16.12.09

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

14/12/09

Four reports were published on 7 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