NDTi News
01/01/2010
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.
08/12/09
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.
01/10/09
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
28/09/09
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.
24/09/09
Launch of a New Housing and Social Inclusion Project
The National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) is launching a new project on the 1st 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
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