Community Inclusion
As our name suggests, promoting community inclusion is at the heart of everything that the NDTi does. We believe that the health and social care system has an important role in supporting disabled and older people to live full lives. However, such services can also unintentionally create barriers to people living full lives. Traditional services are not necessarily best placed to support people achieve important things like paid work, proper housing, leisure activities and fulfilling relationships.
Our Community Inclusion programme is focused on:
Supporting traditional services to be more outward looking and community focused in how they work
Supporting our communities to be more welcoming towards people they have traditionally excluded
The NDTi can work with you on either of these challenges. To find out more about the Community Inclusion training, please see the link below:
Community Inclusion flyer
Community Inclusion flyer (easier to read version)
We have a range of ‘tools’ and approaches including:
Strategic Reviews and Development Support. We have a wide range of evaluation approaches that can help you take stock of the progress that you have towards supporting inclusive lifestyles. These work at various levels – individuals, staff teams, services, commissioning and whole communities. Consultancy and development support is available to help you clarify your goal make further progress towards it.
Social Inclusion Training
This modular based training programme that is designed to highlight values and change staff and organisational practice is particularly targeted at front line staff and junior managers.
Social Inclusion Training flyer
Social Inclusion Training flyer (easier to read version)
The Social Inclusion Planner
A suite of tools and approaches that staff teams and organisations can use to help achieve better outcomes for people.
The Social Inclusion Planner has evolved ...
Social Inclusion Planner flyer
Because we listen to what people say we have developed a brand new training pack to help you to make the right choices for people you support and the communities they live in.
Our previous Planner, which was totally computer based, has given people lots of technical problems and has proved difficult to use because of this, and this is why this pack has been designed to be used without the aid of a computer. We are working on another way of of being able to supply the computer based programme to people who still want to use it.
For a copy of the Social Inclusion Planner worksheet, see the link below:
Social Inclusion Planner worksheet
Social Inclusion Training Pack Training Days ...
Click on the leaflet for more information.
After the succes of the first Social inclusion Pack Training Day we have organised more training days facilitated by Peter Bates and Jo Seddon.
Click here to find out the next training date and location.
Since NDTi published the Social Inclusion Training Pack in summer 2009, over 500 copies have been purchased by practitioners aspiring to develop their skills in socially inclusive practice.
This training event will:
Set out a clear aspiration for inclusion work
Provide an opportunity to share good practice in supporting both people and communities so that everyone can achieve the life they want in the community of their choice
Demonstrate a range of ways that the Social Inclusion Training Pack can assist with building and evaluating the impact of inclusion plans.
It will provide key information alongside really practical workshop exercises to help participants focus on the specific things that need to be done to support people in the community beyond services.
If you have already purchased your copy of the Social Inclusion Training Pack, then come along to this day and learn more about the values, practices and insights that help people to move from observing to attending and real belonging. If you do not yet have a copy of the pack, then the above flyer explains how you can order one.
Community Mapping
Click on the leaflet for details.
This has been a popular and well-received training day, which we have delivered to a wide range of organisations and groups as part of our NDTi Community Inclusion Training Programme.
Organisations that have accessed this training include Adult Mental Health, Learning Disability and Older People services.
Click here to find out the next date, location and how to register.
The Inclusion Web
An evaluative tool for assessing how inclusive people’s lives are and helping staff teams to review and change practice.
Inclusion Audit
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.
Click on the link below for more information or contact NDTi to book a review of your service.
Inclusion Audit flyer
From Staff-run to Self-run Services:
Navigating the Journey -
Many effective user-run organisations are born out of existing user-run groups or formed as brand new bodies. An alternative and less well-examined approach is for staff to start a group or service and then yield power to the emerging leadership of members. People using services, staff and commissioners need to develop a shared understanding of the process and the pitfalls of this approach.
Click on the link below to read more about the NDTi workshop which provides practical ideas to facilitate this.
S2S flyer
Boundaries Clock
Organisations and their staff have a duty to promote inclusive communities where ‘staff’ and ‘clients’ lives overlap, and at the same time meet safeguarding obligations and manage professional boundaries. Individuals, organisations, funders and inspection agencies have differing views about how to balance these competing priorities, and sometimes the result is a rigid approach that denies people citizenship. This conflict has been demonstrated recently in the discussions about the proper role of the Independent Safeguarding Authority. NDTi has developed an approach called the Boundaries Clock to assist anyone needing to rigorously think through these difficult issues.
This can be used to:
identify best practice and build this into quality assurance systems
develop and review policies
train people so that they make rational, consistent decisions in complex situations
Click on the link below for more information
For a detailed conversation, please contact Peter Bates. For a discussion about Social Inclusion Training, please contact Jo Seddon, our Consultant Trainer in Inclusion.