Workshop to share learning from Scottish Care’s ‘People as Partners’ project around providers’ journeys to re-design their care and support to meet the challenges of greater individual choice and control through self-directed support. You will hear about what self-directed support means for older people who use care services and explore practical issues including staffing, recruitment, adult safeguarding, user and family involvement, personal outcomes. Contributed by: Scottish Care

1. People as Partners Project
Self-directed Support Workshop .
Social Services Expo
Edinburgh
18th March 2014
Dr Donald Macaskill
Welcome

2. What is People as Partners?
What have we have discovered?
What issues are still significant .
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3. 3 year project to build capacity
within the independent sector
around Self-Directed support
and older people.
What is it?
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4. • Communicating, informing and raising provider
awareness of the national strategy
• Input on national workgroups and teams.
• Workshops – series of local Making Sense of SDS
workshops (May-July 2014) and national workshop
on in October 2014
• Blogging space and Twitter - @SelfDirectedSup
• News and Views on regular basis
• Resources and information
How have we worked?
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5. Making Sense of SDS
A series of guides for providers
Guide 1: An introduction to self-directed support
Guide 2: The values and principles of self-directed
support
Guide 3: Outcome assessments and support
planning – the provider’s role
Guide 4: The Four SDS Choices
Guide 5: Risk enablement and adult protection
Guide 6:Care homes (residential care) and self-
directed support
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6. Making the SDS Journey
A series of practice hints and tips
• Human resources and workforce
development
• Finance
• Inspection and regulation
• Marketing and communication
• Involving people who use services
• Personalising your services
• Identifying creative options
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7. Key issues for providers:
• Human resources and workforce – new models of
staffing, recruitment and selection, matching,
challenge of unregulated workforce, learning and
development.
• Outcomes and support planning – embedding
new assessment and support models.
• Finance – costing services, systems and contracts.
• The Four Options – Option 2 challenges.
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8. Key issues for providers:
• Marketing and communication – delivering local support.
• Information – is it independent?
• Risk enablement models – balancing safeguarding and
rights
• Inspection and registration –personalised rather than
service inspection models; registration that enables
creativity.
• Involving people who use services.
• Residential (care home) issues – new models. Option 1.
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9. Option one|: A direct payment
Option two: The person getting
the support directing the support
and having a budget but not the
money
Option three: The local authority
organising the services that the
person wants
Option four: A combination of the
other options – ‘mix and match’.
The four options:
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10. In your group select one of the issues
you have heard about and share
1. What is happening locally
2. Any questions or issues you have
3. How can the project help address this
issue?
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11. People as Partners Project
http://www.scottishcare.org/people-
as-partners/
Dr Donald Macaskill
donald.macaskill@scottishcare.org
Tel: 07545 847382
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