Valuing People Now :- Is It Good Enough? Workforce :- The Future With Total Transformation Mark Sanders: Development Manager Bracknell Forest

Valuing People Now :What Does It Tell Us? 4 Main Priorities Personalisation What People do during the day (and evenings and weekends) Better Health Improving People’s Housing situation.

Includes Other Things Advocacy and Rights Partnership with families Including everyone People as local citizens Making the transition to adulthood a positive experience Improving the Workforce

But Is It Enough and Do We Need It? Valuing People Now “The Story So Far” in 2005! Is this another set of ideals? What substance is behind the text? What direction does it give us? Tells us what it isn’t i.e day centres Should Person Centred Plans be formalised? Where are all the how to’s?

6.1.4 Valuing People proposed ‘day services modernisation’ in relation to services provided by adult social services departments. We now think that this term is unhelpful. It encourages people to think about buildings rather than outcomes. Some authorities have used this policy to justify cuts in services. For others, small day centres have replaced big ones, but what people do with their time has hardly changed The concept of day services modernisation is unhelpful if people understand it as making day centres smaller.

6.2.2 As more people take up direct payments and individual budgets, they will be taking these decisions for themselves and the speed of change will increase Think beyond nine to five working days and include evenings and weekends – but also recognise that for people living with their families, existing day centre hours provide important breaks for both the family and the person themselves Person centred transition processes should be in place to support young people into jobs and education rather than traditional day centres

Is It Enough? Where is the commitment for Central Government Partnerships? Where are the Social Care Health Guidelines? What will it do about Benefit laws? Where does it fit into the Total transformation Agenda? Should LD be an add on to other areas? MOST OF ALL:-

DO WE NEED IT ?

Workforce:- What have we currently got? Older persons, mental health, physical disabilities, learning disabilities, long term conditions, specialist, inpatients, outpatients All trained to different degrees All expected to stay in their respective fields Lose staff because of inflexible contracts Can’t rid ourselves of staff not up to the mark

Why?:- The Excuses Silos All care and support is different One area doesn’t understand another Wages are different in some areas within Council Terms and conditions can vary It keeps HR in business It keeps advertisers in business

Can we have? Generic Support Workers Generic Care Managers / Social Workers Work across all areas Standardise salaries Small amount of specialists i.e. dementia

If We Achieve Total Transformation Community access available to all Support will be personalised (more than 1 silo) Cheaper to deliver (Less HR, less contracts less advertising etc) Less time wasting on getting rid (flexibility) More variety for the worker

IT MAY JUST KEEP US IN BUSINESS