Supporting People Strategy An Overview

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Supporting People Strategy An Overview

• Lorraine Regan
• Head of Monitoring and Standards, ODPM Supporting
  People
• February 2006

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What are we seeking to achieve?

• Sustained prevention and enabling independence
• Integration with other services
• User focused services and user choice
• Appropriate flexibility for local authorities
• Better informed commissioning
• Recognition and support for the role of the VCS

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Key Policy Linkages

• Creating Sustainable Communities
• Independence Well-being and Choice
• Opportunity Age
• Improving Life Chances for People with
  Disabilities
• Reducing Reoffending Action Plan
• National Drugs Strategy

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What do we want SP to deliver?
Care with Support To ensure stability,
independence and quality of life. Improve life
chances by improving choice and the range of
accommodation options. Use preventative measures
to avoid institutional care.

Independence with Support To ensure
independence, community care and quality of
life. Promote choice in terms of accommodation
options and support delivery of decent
homes. Prevent the use of crisis services and
premature institutionalisation/ hospitalisation.
Socially Excluded To prevent and reduce social
exclusion. To reduce and prevent re-offending,
homelessness, rough sleeping and domestic
violence. Tackle drug abuse, provide supported
accommodation to teenage parents and integrate
refugees.
Care with Support
Supporting People
Socially Excluded
Independence with Support
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What are the key issues to address(1)?

• What does an integrated, user-focussed service
  look like?
• For different vulnerable groups
• In different contexts

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What are the key issues to address(2)?

• What is the right framework for ensuring that
  services are provided?
• What flexibility around use of funding?
• Freedom to join up v. protection against
  deprioritisation
• Integrated investment e.g. through LAAs
  through Childrens Trusts
• Funds to the individual through Individual Budgets

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What are the key issues to address (3)?

• How can we improve performance and understanding?
• Smarter procurement
• More proportionate contracting and monitoring
• Maintained focus on quality and outcomes
• Better relationships between authorities and
  providers
• Particularly VCS
• Best use of technology solutions

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What might this mean for you

• Challenges
• How to influence as a local partner
• Through LSPs
• Within LAAs
• How to ensure appropriate provision for a mobile
  group
• Opportunities for providers and Authorities to
  discuss best way forward

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What do we want from today?

• We want your views
• What works? Why?
• What could work better? How?
• We want your ideas
• What should this mean for you?
• What else could we do? What else could you do?
• We want your feedback
• Have we asked the right questions?