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Time Together – very first draft

rickwilsontg — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:03:49 +0000

This is the first potential action research experiment that could come out of the Sustainable Lives process.

Building community relationships - Julies birthday

This document called Time Together Gorseinon is a proposal to collaboratively remodel services in a local community.

It will bring commissioners, provider and citizens together in a close partnership to build mutually supportive relationships and to put people at the centre of setting priorities and developing services.

Time Together has 3 aims:

To create a collaborative Time Together Alliance of social care and support provider organisations, commissioners, and community leisure groups to work together to coordinate and develop person centred support to people living in the Gorseinon area.
To develop in partnership with the citizens of Gorseinon a membership based Time Together Network within which members can contribute to the work of the project and the social care and support of each other and are rewarded by time credits through which they can access community activities and events and eventually support provided by other network members.
To use the Swansea People social networking website to support equal and open communication between agencies, citizens and community groups to support the work of the Alliance and the Network.

At the moment this idea is really up for discussion, but it would be a practical way forward to creating empowering citizen led social care while building social capital within our communities.

You can download Time Together Gorseinon here

Posted in Co-production, Local Area Coordination, Reports, Sustainable Commissioning, Time Banking Tagged: Co-production, Community, locality building

LAC in Australia and coproduction report

agrisole — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:00:32 +0000

Rick kindly uploaded a link to the Local Area Cordination work in Australia see Local Area Coordination .

Prof. Judith Phillips from Swansea University was in Australia earlier this year and this work was discussed at the conference. Apparenlty LAC is also popular in New Zealand, which is not surprising as they were pioneers in Family Group Conferencing, which is a form of co-production in children’s services.

SCIE have recently published a report on co-production, which can be found at: http://www.scie.org.uk/publications/briefings/briefing31/index.asp

Thanks Nick

Posted in Co-production, Local Area Coordination Tagged: Co-production, Local Area Coordination, SCIE

Local Area Coordination – building a ‘good life’ and community capacity.

rickwilsontg — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:00:25 +0000

Thanks to Nick Andrews for this link to information about Local Area Coordination.

Local area co-ordination ( LAC) originated in Australia and was introduced to Scotland in the form of a recommendation in The same as you? report, following a national review of services to people with learning disabilities. With a strong, person centred value base, LAC is an innovative way to support individuals and families to build a ‘good life’ and to strengthen the capacity of communities to welcome and include disabled people.

You can get information from the Scottish Government website about it’s evaluation of Local Area Coordination by the University of Stirling by following this link.

There is more information about Local Area Coordination at the Australian Disability Services Commission website which can be found by following this link.

Posted in Local Area Coordination Tagged: Community, Inclusion, Local Area Coordination, Resilience