This was posted on the Wales Alliance for Citizen Directed Support website at www.wacds.org.uk this week.
The Steering group wants to launch our Alliance in Spring 2010.
Summer barbeque
Before this point we want to have achieved a number of things:
- Have wide agreement to a set of principles for Citizen Directed Support.
- Have agreed with partners some large demonstration projects involving large scale collaboration between citizens, commissioners and providers, this would include projects including multiple agencies, involve collaboration between, citizens, commissioners and providers, and involve transformation of service areas.
- Have established a directory of practice experiments that fit within our principles that partners are exploring, these experiments would be smaller scale, such as re-development or particular elements of service, like assessment and care management, or new models of service delivery, or new forms of collaboration with citizens.
- Have in development an evaluation framework for Citizen Directed Support that can be used by partners to review these projects and experiments.
- Have a list of agencies, and individuals who are supporting aims of the Alliance.
- Have agreed a representative structure through which the Alliance can mange it’s work openly and accountably.
So there is a lot to do, if you are interested in making this happen then there is a lot you can do.
- Get involved, and get others involved, in building our principles – you can find out how by following this link, through this process you will also register your interest in the Alliance (so that kills 2 birds with 1 stone).
- Start talking with partners about projects or experiments that you feel would fit within our developing principles, let us know your ideas.
- Show your support of this process by commenting on this website.
I look forward to hearing from you
The work that we are doing in Swansea potentially fits well as one of the large demonstration projects described above.
Interesting stuff
