Festival of Ideas
The Festival of Ideas was a highly successful series of events, interactive workshops and presentations designed to raise awareness of Personalisation and Self Directed Support across the entire social care sector. The links below will take you to some of the presentations featured in the Festival of Ideas.
Were you or your organisation involved in the Festival of Ideas? If so we would love to
hear your thoughts on the Festival of Ideas and what impact it had on you personally or your organisation in general.
Norma Curran, Coordinator of Values Into Action Scotland and Catherine Hurrell, Training Officer with ENABLE Scotland look at how systematic instructional techniques can be used to support people to have maximum choice, control and independence in their lives.
Their presentation looks at how this can help organisations to meet the personalisation agenda, giving an insight into ways of planning and implementing effective support strategies.
Adults with Incapacity Training
The Office of the Public Guardian (Scotland) (OPG) is part of the Scottish Court Service and was established in April 2001 following the passing of the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act by the Scottish Parliament. They are responsible for supervising the actions of those appointed in terms of the Act to manage the property and financial affairs of adults who lack the capacity to carry out these functions for themselves. They also provide a wide range of advice and guidance.
The main focus of their presentation is the Adults with Incapacity Act and its implications for Providers.
Soundbites: Capability Scotland, The Mungo Foundation and The Richmond Fellowship
Soundbites is a collection of video interviews which give some of those involved in the Festival of Ideas the opportunity to reflect on its effectiveness and how it impacted on their own organisations. In this clip we hear from Kathleen Donnelly – Capability Scotland, Una Munro – The Mungo Foundation and Dale Houston – The Richmond Fellowship.
Developing Personalised Services
An overview of the journey Scottish Borders is currently undertaking to develop the short breaks service to ensure it is built around increasing people’s choice and control by improving access to information support and advice, increasing the uptake of the flexible short breaks service in certain groups where there has been poor uptake to date, developing more creative approaches and options for people and increasing the knowledge base of the team, ensuring that this information is clearly accessible to all members of the public through development of a dynamic website.
This Quarriers presentation explores the importance of skilled person centred planning in ensuring that the person and those who know and care about them are placed meaningfully in control of planning for their support and use of their resource allocation.
ENABLE Scotland & Theatre Nemo: Alan’s Dream
As part of the Festival of Ideas, Glasgow Social Care Providers Forum funded Enable Scotland and Theatre Nemo to engage Hilary Monaghan, David Cusick and Alan Starrs in a six-week animation programme to help them express their hopes and dreams for the future. This very moving video is the result of that collaboration. See the full story at On the Record: My Dream, My Life.
This follow up session to the ‘My Life’ Citizen’s Portal presentation covers issues that Providers need to consider in order to work with the My Life portal to attract custom.
Neil Campbell from Intrelate has recently worked with the Thistle Foundation to move their Supported Living Services from a Block Contract view to Individualised Budgets and has created an integrated Back Office system to cope with this.
This presentation describes the journey and includes information on some of the “devilish detail” encountered – including timesheets and rotas for staff with multiple employment contracts, Individualised budgets including “carry forward hours” and absence and holiday management for flexible work patterns.
Lynn Blair recently set up her own consultancy business specialising in telecare solutions. She has been the national telecare strategy manager for a leading telecare supplier and prior to that had 25 years experience in the Health and Care sectors.
Lynn’s presentation gives an overview of telecare
- What it is and how it works
- What elements you need to make telecare work
Lynn looks at barriers to using technology and how these can be overcome through a presentation and group work.
NAAPS (National Association of Adult Placement Schemes) Shared Lives
This presentation by Anne Fernie, Scottish Development Worker for NAAPS and Donald Macleod, Senior Project Manager for PSS Scotland provides an overview of Shared Lives (adult placement) services in Scotland.
They look at how Shared Lives meets the personalisation agenda and what it can offer in the range of flexible, community based and individual services that can be delivered through approved Shared Lives carers.
Personalisation and the workforce
This presentation focuses on a key topic of current concern to social care provider organisations, staff and people who use their services – what personalisation means for the workforce.
Provider Pathway Part 2
Provider 7 Steps – GSCPF
This presentation is by Tracey Bush, Divisional Head of Operations and Kim Haworth, Area Commissioning Manager, Alternative Futures Group and Central Lancashire Commissioning Team. explores in detail provider pathways, staffing implications and considerations.
PSS – Group working and Brokerage
This PSS presentation focuses on an innovative partnership model where seven charities are working together to increase innovation and social enterprise, minimise risk, share knowledge and resources, maximise efficiency, raise profile, increase influence etc. The presentation illustrates this model with tangible outputs relating to brokerage, tendering, training, communication etc.
Soundbites: Quarriers, ENABLE Scotland and The Mungo Foundation
Soundbites is a collection of video interviews which give some of those involved in the Festival of Ideas the opportunity to reflect on its effectiveness and how it impacted on their own organisations. In this clip we hear from Alistair Welsh – Quarriers, Elizabeth Shearer – ENABLE Scotland and Eileen Fraser – The Mungo Foundation.
TRFS Hearing the voice of the people – Staff Training
The FOCUS team in The Richmond Fellowship Scotland replaced the National Service Users Association in 2005, at which time three priorities were agreed for taking forward the Participation Agenda. Staff Training was identified as one of those priorities.
TRFS staff have consistently reported that training is much more effective if it is informed by the real life experiences of the people we support. FOCUS therefore recruits members as co-facilitators to assist our trainers. Those members who participate have themselves received training so they are confident within the training role.
As TRFS reviews the national learning and development strategy, Jamie Thomson, a Development Officer in the FOCUS team, shares his experiences of developing this important priority throughout the process of change.
TRFS Hearing the voice of the people – Challenging Stigma
By listening to the voices of supported individuals, The Richmond Fellowship Scotland FOCUS team is able to conduct a multi- layered approach to raising an awareness of stigma. This topic is an inspirational presentation of how one voice can make a difference to our community.
This presentation is led by Stephanie Stephenson, a Development Officer in the FOCUS team.
TRFS Hearing the voice of the people – Service Feedback
The FOCUS team in The Richmond Fellowship Scotland replaced the National Service Users Association in 2005, at which time three priorities were agreed for taking forward the Participation Agenda. Service feedback was identified as one of these priorities.
TRFS is committed to listening to all of the views and opinions of the people we support in services. To ensure we do this impartially and objectively, we recruit members as peer evaluators and train them to interview supported people.
As TRFS seeks to hear from all supported people including seldom heard groups, Jenny Hull, a Development Officer in the FOCUS team, shares her experiences of this communication strategy while developing accessible information.
TRFS Hearing the voice of the people – Strategic Planning
The FOCUS team in The Richmond Fellowship Scotland replaced the National Service Users Association in 2005, at which time three priorities were agreed for taking forward the Participation Agenda.
In 2008 TRFS decided to review FOCUS, and this work began with the appointment of a new manager. Eddy Gorman, FOCUS Manager, shares his perspective on the challenges and opportunities for achieving improvements in Participation, Involvement and Community Engagement during a process of organisational change and restructure.
Gill Phillips, the Director of Nutshell Communications Ltd, has 30 years of experience in the changing world of social care, particularly within Coventry City Council, a forward-thinking authority when it comes to an outcomes-focused approach and the personalisation of services. To ensure clear communication Gill has developed Whose Shoes? – Putting People First- a thought-provoking, interactive board game to help people understand the opportunities and challenges of personalisation. Uncovering the key issues surrounding the transformation of social care from different perspectives. This presentation outlines the ‘Whose Shoes’ approach.
