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Think Local Act Personal Making It Real : In Hampshire Active and Supportive Communities Supporting People – May 2013 Ed Walton Senior Community Development Officer. What we will cover today: . What are Think Local Act Personal & Making It Real How is Adult Services approaching Making It Real?

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  1. Think Local Act PersonalMaking It Real : In HampshireActive and Supportive CommunitiesSupporting People – May 2013Ed WaltonSenior Community Development Officer

  2. What we will cover today: • What are Think Local Act Personal & Making It Real • How is Adult Services approaching Making It Real? • How does this affect us? • Active and Supportive Communities • Discussion – questions, issues, solutions

  3. What is Think Local Act Personal? • Think Local Act Personal is a national partnership organisation comprised of service users, carers, statutory and non-statutory organisations • The aim is to drive forward work to transform social care and ensure fair access to personalised community based support

  4. What is Making It Real? • An outcome framework agreed by Think Local Act Personal • 6 Themes & 24 “I” statements • National network to share practice • Something to measure ourselves against • Something to aspire to in challenging times

  5. 6 Outcome Themes24 “I” statements • Information and Advice • Active and Supportive Communities • Flexible integrated care and support • Workforce • Risk enablement (positive risk taking) • Personal budgets and self-funding

  6. How is Adult Services approaching Making It Real? • Recognition that this is ambitious in the current climate • Clear that we will need to strengthen our engagement with service users and carers to gauge our progress • Preparing to produce and publish an action plan

  7. How is Adult Service approaching Making It Real? • Held an event for service users and carers on October 31st to understand current issues • Reviewing and strengthening our approach to personal budgets • Reviewing how we involve service users and carers in service developments

  8. How is Adult Services approaching Making It Real? • Linking the Making It Real themes to our annual performance reporting work in preparation to publish a “Local Account” • Identifying resources that support the themes • Holding workshops and events with service users, carers and providers to understand what needs to change to “Make It Real”

  9. How does this affect us? • Many of the themes will be familiar • As for us, existing work streams can take forward specific themes eg. information • As for us, the way we engage with service users and carers to ensure “I” statements are achieved and evidenced will be important • As for us, how we enable communities to develop is key to reducing unnecessary dependency

  10. Active and Supportive Communities • “I have access to a range of support that helps me live the life I want and remain a contributing member of my community” • “I have a network of people who support me – carers, friends, family, community and paid staff if needed”

  11. I have opportunities to train, study, work or engage in activities that match my interests, skills and abilities” • “I feel welcomed and included in my local community” • “I feel valued for the contribution that I can make to my community”

  12. Discussion : questions, issues, solutions More information : http://www.thinklocalactpersonal.org.uk Ed Walton : ed.walton@hants.gov.uk

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