All Together Now

partnership between City and County of Swansea, the Social Services Improvement Agency and local voluntary organisations.

Nick Andrews of City and County of Swansea said:

• ‘Our intention is to get rid of time and task care planning for the local home care agency and free them up to be creative, we will get a couple of social workers out of the area office and into the community, work with a care home on how we support the social inclusion of their residents and do a bit of community capacity building with  the day opportunities folk.  We want to explore a more co-productive way of working which will promote partnership, resilience and maintain life-styles which remain meshed within the community.

If you want to find out more about this project here is the rough guide to All Together Now

Andrew also offers other documents that support this work:

• Beyond Person Centred Care which talks about relationship centred approaches to the care and support of older people, which inevitable means that carers and staff come into the outcomes equation.
• The SENSES Framework is applicable to older people, carers and staff, and this ’triangle’ of outcomes is at the heart of the Resident Centred Care Home Standard, which is another area of development within older people’s services.
• From From Safety net to Spring Board which is a great paper from the Human Rights and Equalities Commission on the direction of future social care – very much in line with some of the ideas that we share and power to our elbow!

It is experiments like this which will help us to build a more effective, local, and community meshed services that will support people to build more inclusive, reciprocal and resilient communities.