Shared Lives Master Classes For LAs

Date: Wednesday 09/12/09

Supporting you to expand your schemes or to introduce a completely new scheme

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

Shared Lives is an underused and undervalued service that offers care long-term accommodation and support, daytime care, kinship and respite care for all user groups, along with step-down and step-up care for people with mental health needs or rehabilitation needs. A highly cost- effective, personalised and high quality service which is currently under-utilised. 

 

As well as excellent outcomes for service users cost savings of up to 60% on residential services can be made.

These Master Classes will complement and provide hands-on support to local teams to expand their shared lives provision.  Shared Lives supports the PPF agenda, personalisation, provides excellent outcomes for service users and contributes to at least 32 National Performance Indicators.

 

THE MASTERCLASSES
In 2010, Improvement and Efficiency South East in association with NAAPS will be offering comprehensive cross-authority face to face master classes to 6 Local Authorities over a period of seven months. The classes will help existing shared lives schemes expand their range of services or extend services to new groups. 

 

Separate Master Classes will also be available for commissioners interested in setting up a new scheme either in-house or with an external provider.

 

THE MODULES
The  master classes will  offer  five,  6-weekly  full  day  sessions,  delivered  by NAAPS and IESE  to experienced  Shared Lives Practitioners. The modules will build upon the research and business case development undertaken on behalf of IESE by NAAPS and will include: 

 

• Developing a Business Case
• Project Planning
• Blockages and Issues
• Carer Recruitment
• Training
• Best practice
• Promoting the scheme
• Go-live planning
• Trouble shooting and follow up
• Review & lessons learned

 

For further details contact Jane Hurt, Project Manager by 12th February 2010
Email:  jane.hurt@southeastiep.gov.uk
Telephone:  07540 201409 

 

Useful Documents:

Shared Lives Research Report [6.45 MB]

Shared Lives Research Summary [2.04 MB]

Shared Lives Business Case [3.41 MB]