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 attached leaflet (Read more). This leaflet is also available in the easier to read format (Read more).

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. The information about the Social Inclusion Training is also available in the easier to read format (Read more).

 

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 ...

Read more (link to Social Inclusion Pack 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.

Social Inclusion Training Pack Training Days ...

after the succes of the first Social inclusion Pack Training Day held on Thursday 25th February 2010 we have organised two more training days facilitated by Peter Bates and Jo Seddon.

The next day is in Newcastle on 14th April - click here for a flyer giving more details, and an application form.

Another day is being held in Nottingham on 27th May 2010 - click here for a flyer giving more details, and an application form.

The training day will cost £80 + VAT. We will also have copies of the new 2010 version of the Training Pack available to collect on the day.

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. 

Places are limited!

 

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.

Contact NDTi to book a review of your service.

Read more

 

A new approach to addressing the complex issues surrounding Professional Boundaries, Safeguarding and Inclusion has been developed by NDTi. Contact Peter Bates to discuss.

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.

Read more about the NDTi workshop which provides practical ideas to facilitate this.

 

For a detailed conversation, contact Peter Bates at peter.bates@ndti.org.uk or on (0115 910 9387). For a discussion about Social Inclusion Training, contact Jo Seddon, our Consultant Trainer in Inclusion at jo.seddon@ndti.org.uk or on (0770 262 9692).