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“Increased user involvement emerges as the most important single issue for improved social care provision. Service users repeatedly emphasise the importance they attach to user involvement, but it is important to remember that these responses came from a wide range of high level policymakers as well as service users”

PETER BERESFORD AND FRANCES HASLERTRANSFORMING SOCIAL CARE: CHANGING THE FUTURE TOGETHER; 2009

With both an increasing interest in and questioning of user involvement in health and social care this one day conference explores the practicalities of developing and meeting the challenges of a more person-centric approach to care.

Conference chair, Peter Beresford Author – Transforming Social Care: Changing the future together, Professor of Social Policy Brunel University and Chair Shaping Our Lives, opens our day with a keynote introduction on Transforming Social Care: Changing the future together. Delegates will then hear from the Care Quality Commission with a national policy update, including involving people and responding to their views: Voices into Action.

The conference also includes an update on the Local Involvement Networks (LINks): developments and moving forward from a social care perspective.

Topics include

• Transforming Social Care: Changing the future together
• National developments in involvement in social care
• Developing user involvement in social care
• From user involvement to co-production: the future of social care
• Training service users, carers and staff in involvement
• Local Involvement Networks (LINks): developments and moving forward from a social care perspective
• User involvement in social care: working in partnership and organisational autonomy
• User involvement for personalisation
• Beyond involvement: employment, training and user led service

Chair and keynote speakers

• Peter Beresford Author –Transforming Social Care: Changing the future together, Professor of Social Policy Brunel University and Chair Shaping Our Lives
• Frances Hasler Head of Involvement Care Quality Commission
• Tina Coldham Chairman The National Survivor User Network (NSUN)

Related Links...

• Transforming Social Care: Changing the future together
• NHS Centre for Involvement
• National Survivor User Network (NSUNs)
• Shaping our Lives
• Voices into Action – Care Quality Commission (CQC)
• Social Care Institute for Excellence (scie)

An IHM and ADASS recognised conference. CPD Accreditation being sought.

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