'Shared Solutions' as an Innovative, Collaborative, Policy-Making MethodFEANTSA
Presentation given by Maggie Brunjes during the "Redistributing the power: Key steps for mainstreaming participation of homeless people" seminar at the FEANTSA 2014 Policy Conference, "Confronting homelessness in the EU: Seeking out the next generation of best practices", 24-25 October 2014, Bergamo (Italy)
How to set up, run and sustain a community hub to transform local service provision
This presentation contains:
An overview of Community Hubs
What they are and the benefits they bring
Examples of hubs in practice
Tips for setting up and sustaining community hubs.
Self-directed support (NDIS or My Way) has the potential to revolutionise support to people with disabilities. But service providers must also adapt, learn and innovate. These slides were shared at an event for over 90 service providers in Perth, WA - with the support of WADSC and NDS.
Community development - a different way to think about local economiesJulian Dobson
This is a presentation given to the Local Government Information Unit's economic development learning network in London on 26 January 2010. I was asked to explore how community development and economic development are linked and the implications for economic development practitioners of a community development approach.
Talk given to local authority Chief executives on the way in which local government could re-imagine its own role - with a real commitment to supporting citizenship.
This presentation was given to a webinar on addressing poverty and also contains some suggested waymarkers for response. It is based on local experience and the lessons in the LGA/ADPH Annual Public Health Report 2023
Progress on Self-Directed Support in Difficult TimesCitizen Network
1) The document discusses the progress and obstacles of self-directed support (SDS) like personal budgets and personal health budgets in England. (2) While England was initially a leader in SDS, austerity and bad policy have slowed progress in recent years. (3) The document provides strategies for advancing SDS locally, such as building alliances, identifying champions, and connecting innovations to shifting resources and a changing vision for local government and health.
This document provides an overview of a report by the Carnegie UK Trust on rural services and engaging communities in service delivery. It discusses the challenges rural areas face in accessing services due to centralization and budget cuts. It advocates for rural communities to have a role in determining what services are provided and moving away from viewing residents as passive recipients. The report examines examples of successful community involvement from the Trust's rural action research. It stresses the need for public sector organizations to work collaboratively and engage communities to develop innovative solutions to delivering services.
Community social work, community assets and Neighbourhood Network Schemes aim to address unsustainable costs on social care by focusing on prevention. The key aspects are:
1) Neighbourhood Network Schemes will be established in each constituency to invest in community assets, connect citizens to activities, and commission local activities through small grants.
2) Lead facilitators will manage each scheme, coordinating asset mapping, supporting groups, and linking assets to citizens and social workers.
3) The goals are to increase social participation, encourage healthy lifestyles, and give citizens a better experience of the social care system through community-based activities rather than services.
The document summarizes a roundtable discussion held by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) on community-led care and support. Some of the key points made at the discussion include:
1) Community-led services help break down differences between those who need support and those who provide it.
2) However, community groups face barriers like complex regulations and funding. Sustaining small, local services is challenging.
3) Statutory services must shift their focus from protecting traditional systems to commissioning for outcomes and building trust with local communities.
1. Local governments play an important role in supporting sport, recreation, and well-being through regeneration, economic growth, and social development.
2. There is a need to provide varied, targeted, and local opportunities for physical activity to benefit communities. Collaboration is important to activate different community settings and meet diverse resident needs.
3. Current challenges include decreased budgets, an emphasis on contracting out services, and fragmented delivery. There is also a lack of co-commissioning. However, sport provides significant social and economic benefits when delivered effectively at a community level.
Dr Simon Duffy presented these slides to a meeting of the Socialist Health Association SHA) which was also joined by members of Disabled People Against the Cuts (DPAC) on 18th June 2016. He proposed that the whole social care system was flawed and based on old-fashioned institutional models that were dangerous and undermined people's citizenship. He proposed radical reform and the creation of an effective right for independent living.
Break-out session slides Session 1: 1.3 Working in partnership with people an...NHS England
Primary Care Networks are being encouraged to work in partnership with local communities by:
1) Having an ongoing dialogue with the local community to co-create healthcare services and support, rather than one-off consultations.
2) Ensuring local community views and experiences influence all aspects of healthcare design and delivery.
3) Recognizing that local communities often have their own solutions that could better serve their needs if given ownership over local services.
The document summarizes the Cities of Service model, which mobilizes volunteers to address key city challenges. It was piloted in 7 UK cities over 2 years with funding and support from Nesta and Bloomberg Philanthropies. Close to 10,000 volunteers were engaged across initiatives in areas like food access, aging, education, and neighborhoods. The model helped elevate the status of volunteering for councils and influenced them to see social action as a way to complement services. Councils continue working to embed the approach and share learning across the UK and Europe.
Citizenship & Self-Direction - exploring good practice.Citizen Network
Dr Simon Duffy of the Centre for Welfare Reform gave this talk at the Manawanui In Charge International Conference on Self-Direction in Auckland November 2016. He explores some of the lessons learned internationally about how systems of self-directed support and set out the case for increasing international cooperation through membership of Citizen Network.
Presenter: Lucie Stephens, Head of Co-Production, NEF
Event: How arts and cultural activities are supporting co-production and innovation in public services, London, 19 May 2015, part of our Making Connections events series.
Between May 2015 and March 2016, we are running a series of regional events to bring together commissioners, arts and cultural providers, and others interested in increasing levels of cultural commissioning.
The Cultural Commissioning Programme works to help the arts and cultural sector engage in public sector commissioning and to enable public service commissioners to increase their awareness of the potential for arts and cultural organisations to deliver their outcomes. This three year programme, funded by Arts Council England, is being delivered through a partnership between NCVO (lead partner) , NEF and NPC .
www.ncvo.org/CCProg
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Networked Energy: Energy independence for AlderneyCitizen Network
by Chris Cook and Marcus Saul, Island Power
As Research Fellows at the Institute for Strategy, Resilience and Security, at University College, London, Marcus Saul and Chris Cook researched and developed the Pacific Natural Grid resource resilience strategy.
Here they explain how Denmark has led the way in creating sustainable networks of community-based energy production and distribution.
This has been transformative for Denmark, enabling it to become independent from the oil and gas industry’s dominance. But it is also transformative for communities, who are now creating their own energy economies.
Dr Dave Beck gave this talk for Part 5 of the ‘Grassroots Policies for Farming, Food and Wildlife’ webinar series, hosted by Citizen Network.
In his presentation Dr Beck discusses the harms caused by the monopolisation of supermarkets in the food industry. He also explores the positive possibilities of local currencies.
Dr Beck is a Lecturer at the University of Salford, Manchester.
The webinar recording is available to watch on Citizen Network's website at: www.citizen-network.org
This document discusses key issues in disability and aged care systems and proposes ways to advance citizenship rights through self-directed support. It advocates for personal budgets and upstream solutions to prevent crises. It also highlights the need for innovation from communities, professionals, and individuals to develop sustainable and inclusive systems that respect people's freedom, support, participation, and citizenship.
Sabrina Espeleta of War on Want outlines the enormous and growing level of world hunger. She explains how a few global corporations control the vast majority of food production and supply and markets exploit the food market, leaving communities, especially in the Global South at great disadvantage. Local peasant farmers are now organising to achieve food sovereignty, seeking to farm in ways in harmony with nature and to meet local needs. The Global North needs to respect the rights and autonomy of these people rather than to continue the pattern of exploitation.
This presentation was given on 6 July in Part 4 of a webinar series on grassroots policies for farming, food and wildlife.
Watch the recording at: https://citizen-network.org
Simon Duffy was asked by the Mayor’s Greater Manchester Charity and UBI Lab Manchester to talk at a recent roundtable event on the relevance of Universal Basic Income (UBI) to the problem of homelessness.
These are the slides from that talk. In summary Duffy argued that UBI is relevant to reducing homelessness in two slightly different ways:
1. UBI would help prevent homelessness - UBI addresses the inequalities in income and housing that create the risk of homelessness.
2. UBI would help people escape homelessness - UBI gives people a vital tool which significantly helps people change their situation in times of crisis.
Find more free resources on basic income at: www.citizen-network.org
A presentation for the One Yorkshire Committee introducing Democratic Yorkshire - a voluntary alliance consisting of a group of organisations and individuals interested in planning a better future for our County through modern democratic means secured in a written constitution.
In this presentation exploring planning law, Laird Ryan talks us through the planning process, explores what we can and can't influence and helps us consider how best to create real, organic and local alliances that make the best use of our energy.
To find out more about the Neighbourhood Democracy Movement please visit: https://neighbourhooddemocracy.org
Citizenship is our Business - The Avivo StoryCitizen Network
Avivo is one of the founding organisations in Citizen Network. they are also pioneers in self-direction and personalised support in Australia. Over the past few years they have been reorganising themselves around the principle that everyone is a citizen - and supporting everyone, including paid staff, to be citizens is their central purpose. Avivo are also leading Citizen Network's Rethinking Organisations programme and networking with other organisations on this journey.
Dr Simon Duffy spoke to Doncaster's Mental Wellbeing Alliance about the importance of thinking about what good help really means. He explored the importance of shifting power, resources and thinking upstream.
Markus Vähälä, CEO of Citizen Network, outlined the development of the cooperative as a framework to support the further development of Citizen Network as part of the 2022 Building Citizen network Together events hosted by Eberswalde University.
At BuildingCitizen Network Together in early 2022 Simon Duffy and James Lock discussed the development of Citizen Network and its current approach to membership and explored with members from all around the world next steps for its development.
These slides are from a talk Dr Simon Duffy of Citizen Network gave to Café Economique in Leeds, making the case for basic income. The argument set out is that UBI is one necessary part of a range of reforms necessary to support citizenship and strengthen community life. This talk preceded a (rather fiery) debate with Anna Coote of NEF who argued against UBI.
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What is Person-Centred Experiential Therapy?donnytrakindo
Counselling and psychotherapy practitioners understand their work from a variety of perspectives. There are a variety of well-established 'models' or 'approaches' and these generally hold many insights in common, whilst also having their own specific contributions and characteristics (click here for a brief summary of these from BACP). My work is firmly but flexibly rooted in person-centred experiential approaches.
This approach to therapy originated in the work of psychologist, therapist, educator, and researcher, Carl R. Rogers (1902-1987), who was the initiator not only of what he called 'Client Centred Therapy' but also of innovative approaches to education, human relations, and community-building. In the decades since his death, the approach has been developed by practitioners and theorists in many parts of the world, and notably in Scotland. These developments have led to a number of different emphases in working, collectively now described as 'Person-centred and Experiential Psychotherapies' (PCE), which have a long-established,
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1. Dr Simon Duffy of Citizen Network
Neighbourhood Care
Exploring the potential for a South Yorkshire strategy
3. South Yorkshire Neighbourhood Care Strategy
What could this means in practice?
• Shared vision for many partners across the region
• Support from 6 key statutory bodies (SYCMA, NHS and the 4 cities)
• Process of learning together and identifying best practice
• Agreement to solve shared problems together (internal and external)
• Ambitious but pragmatic and incremental
• NOT one model - although models may emerge
• NOT centralised - respecting plurality of cities and neighbourhoods
4. 10,000 users pm.
4,145 members
1589 articles
294 groups
145 fellows
51 countries
22 coop members
5. Citizen Network, rooted in South Yorkshire, has been building local,
national and global partnerships around these ideas since 2016:
6. Why NOW is the right time
Drivers for a Neighbourhood Care strategy
• Emerging citizen action, peer support,
mutual aid, neighbourhood democracy
• Public spending unlikely to grow
signi
fi
cantly
• Ongoing exclusion and institutionalisation
• Citizens, families and community at the
heart of care
• Legitimacy crisis for centralisation of
services & regulation
• Severe problem of morale and recruitment
across the care sector
• Human and gender rights not respected
by current system
• Growing environmental crisis
• End of a 40 year policy cycle
• COVID showed us what is possible
10. Emerging opportunities
Responding ethically to the crisis
1. Peer support has strong roots in South
Yorkshire with enormous untapped social
value. What if we inspired similar actions
everywhere?
2. We currently exports resources from
neighbourhoods into services. What if we
moved to a circular economy that invested
into neighbourhoods?
3. Children are put in care at unprecedented
rates. What if communities were enabled
to support families?
4. There is a major care recruitment crisis.
What if professionals were self-managing
and locally embedded?
5. Women are exploited by the care system.
What if care work was local and relational?
6. Services are over-centralised. What if they
were rooted in every neighbourhood?
7. Technology is undermining old systems.
What if we used it to empower
communities?
11. What if we treated
neighbourhoods as the
topsoil of community life
and citizenship?
12. Neighbourhood Care
For a neighbourhood of 4,000 people there is
£15 million in Citizen Capacity
£7.5 million in NHS spending
£7 million in Unpaid Care
£2.8 million of Social Care
£210,000 of Work Programme
125 people entitled to social care
10 Social Workers
8 Community Nurses
1 Primary School
50% GP
50% Local Councillor
4% MP
16. Possible strategies
Some provocations
1. Let peer supporters take the message to the
community.
2. Support neighbourhood democracy in every
neighbourhood.
3. Promote human rights, independent living
and rights for women and families.
4. Provide a charter for civil society to help them
lead change and connect to neighbourhoods.
5. Reorganise public services to be self-
managing, integrated, local and accountable.
6. Use ISFs, neighbourhood wealth funds and
common ownership to invest in community.
7. End social care charging as soon as possible.
8. Reward inclusion and local solutions: make it
hard to export people from neighbourhoods.
9. Track progress and network for expertise
across the region and by neighbourhood
10.Create a South Yorkshire policy that put us at
the heart of national policy-making
17. P.S.
And food for thought
• Global Fearless Cities Summit on Neighbourhood Care - will be in Shef
fi
eld
1-4 November - this could highlight regional leadership
• Clear commitment to the strategy by the Region could help release millions
from three large Foundations by 2025
• South Yorkshire could create a global partnership around these ideas (e.g.
Spain, Columbia, Argentina, Netherlands, Finland, New Zealand etc.)
• The new Government will need examples of exciting new approaches
18. What kind of strategy?
What is the level of our ambition
1. We each just do our own thing
2. We compare notes and learn together - What would good habits look like?
3. We agree a shared vision and work together
4. We build a network - for South Yorkshire, for England or globally
5. We connect with the Foundations around a shared strategy
6. We put people with lived experience and carers at the centre.
7. We work through the ICP (where we all come together).
8. Some or all of the above
19. Challenges
Things to think about
• We don’t have good ways to measure this
and we deliver what we measure.
• New Public Management thinking is still a
cultural legacy.
• Current model is broken, but a lot of the
necessary change is in its gift.
• The South Yorkshire Mayor’s role in this
space could be very powerful.
• The recent integration of the Mayor and
Police Commissioner roles could help.
• It is not clear what the critical path for
change will be.
• Prevention needs to be rooted in what
people in neighbourhoods experience.
• There are multi-generational challenges for
system and communities.
• There is NHS growth money, but it is not
clear how it is being used.
• We need effective models to reduce high
intensity use of public services.
20. What we could work on together I
What is the gap we could
fi
ll?
• De
fi
ne a good way to evaluate our progress.
• Create a compelling narrative about the ‘why’.
• Identify the shared elements of our stories of
success.
• Work with the convening power of the Mayor.
• Seize the opportunity of a new government -
and create a protective shield for innovation.
• Invest in the voluntary sector in a better way -
longer-term commitment
• Close institutional services - create the
necessary system conditions to support acute
sector colleagues.
• Identify the principles we are all going to work
to.
• Clarify roles: What kind of public servant do we
need to be? What kind of citizen?
• Change the narrative so that it is about all of us
having agency
• Identify the coherent story, the right language
and framing.
21. What we could work on together II
What is the gap we could
fi
ll?
• Connect it to the ICP strategy. It is already part of
the strategy: make it real; clarify next steps; build
on existing commitments across all sectors (e.g.
City Goals)
• Create a new operating model for where people
meet the system.
• Improve relationships across people across South
Yorkshire. Make it more personal.
• Revisit the role personal budgets could play in
reinvigorating neighbourhood economics.
• Create Peer commissioners. Challenge how we
imagine how we can spend money.
• Unlock the spirit, talent and knowledge of frontline
workers.
• Identify neighbourhoods and create a mechanisms
so they can do their own commissioning
• Support the idea of real peer support.
• Give people more time to talk to each other.
• Create alternative to residential and domiciliary
care and end the extraction of people and
resources from their communities.
• Look to local groups and local businesses for
solutions.