Current Projects
A Training Package for the Learning Disability Care and Support Workforce
To develop a training package that will raise the awareness and skills of the LD Workforce, faced with new ways of working, thus enabling them to understand and meet the challenges of meeting the individual requirements of clients who have chosen self--directed support and individualised budgets.
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Organisation: Cumbria Training Partnership
Organisation Description: Local Authority
Objectives: to be agreed
Start Date: 28/01/08
End Date: 31/03/09
Connect Works
A multi ethnic team of people with learning difficulties is designing and piloting training for people to work as personal assistants. The team is led by a projector leader who has learning difficulties. They will be building on the work of a second team
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Organisation: Connect in the North
Organisation Description: regional training, peer advocacy and consultancy organisation led by people with learning difficulties
Objectives: to be agreed
Start Date: 15/01/08
End Date: 31/12/08
Considering Individual Budgets within a Domiciliary Care Team
To investigate the workforce and business implications of people (mainly but not exclusively older people) choosing to use direct payment and individual budgets for a small private provider of domiciliary support
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Organisation: C&S care services
Organisation Description: Private provider of domiciliary care, mainly to older people
Objectives: to be agreed
Start Date: 01/01/08
End Date: 30/06/08
Empowering the workforce to do the job
To identify the workforce development implications of a partnership of voluntary, statutory and private organisations developing a local workforce. To ensure that the workforce of the partnership can provide effective, personalised seamless support with confidence, competence and skill when delivering care/support to vulnerable people in their own homes.
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Organisation: The Wilf Ward Family Trust
Organisation Description: Voluntary organisation (Wilf Ward Family Trust), Statutory Local Authority ( North Yorkshire county council), & Private companies ( 'Carewatch' Homecare & residential service provider and 'Tunstall', telecare provider.
Objectives: 1, Build a cross sector partnership. 2, Challenge the traditional roles and reshape them for what people need now. 3,Share the findings.
Start Date: 01/08/08
End Date: 31/06/09
Health and Social Care Support Workers Training Development
The aim of the training is to offer a "joined up" City & Guilds, Royal College of Nursing, ILM and BTEC group of courses to support new type of worker development combining health and social care training.
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Managers from day services in Cambridgeshire look to move from managers to leaders
Leadership into action in Cambridgeshire.
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Organisation: Cambridgeshire Council
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Objectives: To help managers plan for facilitate the re-organisation of day services by using a three day training programme.
Start Date: Spring 2008
End Date: Spring 2008
New ways of learning and changing practice for healthy eating, dignity and well being - Food matters!
The project is working with residential care homes and nursing services, and with service users to address poor diet and attitudinal barriers to change and is exploring the implications of this for workforce development
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Organisation: InPerspective
Organisation Description: Ltd consultancy
Objectives: 1. Engage 6 service providers to take part in the pilot the work with Care Learning and the Learning Exchange (a learning network for care service managers). 2. Work with 3-4 Learning Ambassadors (home managers) to design and deliver 2 workshops that wil
Start Date: 31/01/08
End Date: 31/07/08
NToW Project NVQ Assessment, Competency and Verification
To explore models of providing NVQ assessment and verification to care workers undertaking NVQ with additional health task modules for the 'extended care worker role'.
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Organisation: Bath and North East Somerset Council
Organisation Description: Local Authority
Objectives: To find a sustainable way of providing nurse assessor time for NToWs. To develop Continuous Professional Development for NToW's undergoing NVQ level 2/3 training with "bolt on" clinical units.
The project will focus on service users in Registered Care or Extracare Sheltered Housing projects in order to maintain older peoples' independence, help them to develop well being strategies and to avoid acute hospital admissions.
Start Date: 01/02/08
End Date: 31/12/08
Picking Your Pathways
To build on the 'PA net' by supporting people, with a range of social care needs, who employ their own staff to design a training matrix for PAs
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Organisation: ARC House / Independent living alternatives
Organisation Description: National charity for people with learning disabilities / Organisation led by people who employ their own support staff
Objectives: to be agreed
Start Date: 04/02/08
End Date: 31/03/09
PLAN North East 2 Year Pilot Project
To explore the workforce implications of working with a group of people with learning disabilities (and their families) in the North East of England to try out a way of facilitating support networks, which can enable people to be more in control of their lives and support. The way is called PLAN and has been successful in Canada.
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Organisation: Skills for People
Organisation Description: local campaigning and advocacy group led by people with learning disabilities and their families
Objectives: 1, To support 16 families to set up a network. 2, To develop and run (3 times) a training course for network facilitators. 3, To explore setting up a plan NE organisation.
Start Date: 01/03/08
End Date: 28/02/10
Practice Quality Mentors Scheme
To run and action learning set to investigate how people working with adult protection issues need to work differently, especially in response to the personalisation agenda.
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Organisation: The City of Liverpool
Organisation Description: Local Authority
Objectives: to be agreed
Start Date: 25/01/08
End Date: 31/07/08
Your TeleSupport
Investigate the workforce and training issues associated with piloting the use of touchscreen videophones as part of a support package for people with learning disabilities and mental health problems.
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Organisation: United Response
Organisation Description: National 3rd sector provider of services to people who have a learning disability
Objectives: to be agreed
Start Date: 31/03/08
End Date: 31/03/09
A Sub regional approach to integrated low vision services
To share the learning from the Gateshead pilot by undertaking an 18 month initiative, driving through a sub-regional approach to developing integrated, low vision services, thereby investigating the workforce development implications of other areas adopting this approach.
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Organisation: Sight Service Gateshead and South Tyneside
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Objectives: 1, Hold information/learning exchange events with service users to identify gaps in services currently available and to consider alternative ways of providing services. 2, Hold a sub-regional event to promote the benefits of an Integrated Low Vision Service.
Start Date: 01/07/08
End Date: 31/03/10
Action learning sets to facilitate delivery of outcomes-based services
To review the action learning sets which will bring about whole system change and identify success factors and other learning points.
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Organisation: EBD
Organisation Description: private business consultancy
Objectives: To identify how to impliment outcome based services. To make personalisation a reality.
Start Date: 01/01/08
End Date: 30/11/08
Ask The Family
The aim of this project has not yet been defined.
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Organisation: InControl
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Creating Capable Teams
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Delivering Choice and Independence in Adult Social Care
The aim of this project has not yet been defined.
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Organisation: London Borough of Barnet
Organisation Description: An inner city local authority
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Developing the End of Life Carer (NToW)
To trial and evaluate an End of Life Carer learning programme for the workforce in a social care residential setting. Learners will investigate the needs and preferences of service users and create a portfolio to demonstrate work-based learning aligned t
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Organisation: University of Hull
Organisation Description: Faculty of H&SC withing University in partnership with independent EoL care home
Objectives: 1. Identify the needs of local service user and workforce in ‘End of life’ care. 2, faculty tutors will develiver action learning sets in the workplace. 3. Support workforce in completion of portfolio of evidence.
Start Date: 21/07/08
End Date: 30/06/09
Dual practitioner
Exploring the desirability and feasibility of employing an individual with a dual nursing and social work qualification within a single role and utilising both skill sets.
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Organisation: Helen Duncan-Turnbull, Hertfordshire County Council
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Employing Personal Assistants
The aim of this project has not yet been defined.
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Organisation: Joe Tomlinson
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Exploring support for people involved in Self Directed Care
The aim of this project has not yet been defined.
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Organisation: In Control
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Holistic working in Extra Care Housing
The aim of this project has not yet been defined.
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Organisation: Housing 21
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Identifying competencies for those leading self care learning activities - for social care and health
To develop a set of competancies for people leading learning activities for self care / self management across health and social care.
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Organisation: E.P.P. C.I.C.
Organisation Description: National Community interest company providing self management courses and enabling self care
Objectives: 1, Conduct desk research into existing and potential models. 2, Hold focus groups with tutors, commissioners and H&SC providers. 3, Draw together framework / set from work todate and validate at workshop
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New type of social worker
The aim of this project has not yet been defined.
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Organisation: Sheffield Government
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Partners in policy making
Looking at effectively working with service users and carers in the development of policy.
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Organisation: IC / manchester
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Peer Advocacy and People with Visual Impairments
The aim of this project has not yet been defined.
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Organisation: Gateshead Visually Impaired Forum
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Person Centred Planning for People with Autism Spectrum Disorders - Implications for the Workforce
The aim of this project has not yet been defined.
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Organisation: The National Autistic Society
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Personal Assistants and holiday support
The aim of this project has not yet been defined.
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Organisation: skills for care
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Personal Assistants effective relationships
The aim of this project has not yet been defined.
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Organisation: Skills for care
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Self Care Pilot
This is a project to explore and develop the workforce developmetn implications of introducing the Self Care principles (Common Core Self Care Principles DH 2007) into support at home services for people with long-term conditions.
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Organisation: Lancashire County Council
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Objectives: 1, Allow people to make informed choices in the management of their condition and in the meeting of their care needs. 2, For workers to communicate effectively to enable people who use services to develop and gain confidence in their self directed care sk
Start Date: 15/06/08
End Date: 31/03/09
Self Directed Support Workforce Training Development
The aim of this project has not yet been defined.
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Organisation: Herefordshire Centre of Independent Living
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Senior Support Workers with Pregnant Women
To explore the workforce development implications of developing a local workforce that can work across the health and social care interface with confidence, competence and skill when delivering care/support to vulnerable people in their own homes.
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Organisation: Gateway Family Services CIC
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Objectives: 1, to identify rolw and competancies for level 4 worker. 2, ensure worksforce is drawn from local communities. 3, ensure there are progression routes for non professional staff.
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Supporting sustainable innovation by working with commissioners
To develop ways of supporting innovative social care to be sustainable
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Objectives: 1, investigate the needs of innovative projects. 2, investigate the needs of commissioners. 3, develop approaches to meet these needs
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Sutton Cooperative for Recovery and Peer Support (Working Title SCRAPS)
To explore a co-operative model of employment for people who have experienced mental distress to use this experience in providing peer support. Examine the structures which can support this
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Organisation: Sutton Mental Health Foundation (SMHF)
Organisation Description: Local charity for people with experience of mental distress
Objectives: To be self-sustaining as a social enterprise. To be run by people who use services. To have an accredited training course in place.
Start Date: 28/01/08
End Date: 31/12/08
The Lifecraft User Employment Project: Changing the culture
To investigate the workforce development implications of people with experience of using mental health services being employed in those services in a meaningful and well supported way.
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Organisation: Lifecraft
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Objectives: 1, To investigate the workforce development implications of enabling people who have expereinced mental distress and mental illness to develop work related skills that are transferable within adult social care.2,To address issues relating to cultural chan
Start Date: 21/07/08
End Date: 31/03/09
Working for CHANGE
To present a report on the innovative way CHANGE employs people with learning disabilities.
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Organisation: CHANGE
Organisation Description: information needed
Objectives: 1,To employ 2 workers on the activity, 1 a person with a learning disability. 2, The workers will research, document and record the way CHANGE successfully employs people with learning disabilities. 3, produce a written report with an easy-to-read summar
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Working together for well being in dementia care
To determine and evaluate whether or not a new way of training staff, with a greater emphasis on ensuring that the training is specific to individual service users, has made a difference to the Quality of Care received. More importantly will be to determine whether the service users' well-being has been enhanced both in the home and day care environment.
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Organisation: Jenny Dutton and Flora Baka, Tower Hamlets
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