TLAP congratulates Bill Mumford, chief executive of Macintyre and chair of TLAP's National Market Development Forum on his appointment as Programme Director for the Winterbourne View Joint Improvement Programme (JIP).
The Integrated Care and Support Pioneers sites and partners took part in a workshop in London on 3 December. The 14 pioneer sites and programme partners , including TLAP, got together for the first time to get the collaboration underway.
As part of work to refresh the TLAP Partnership Agreement, TLAP's Co-Production Coordinator Miro Griffiths argues that more needs to be done to promote what rights people who use services have, and shares his vision on what's next for personalisation.
TLAP's Social Care Jargon Buster has won an award from the Plain English Campaign for how it describes complicated social care words in plain, simple language.
Bridget Warr, TLAP Board Lead for Self-directed support and Chief Executive of UK Home Care Association, argues that the health and social care system is not good enough for the older and vulnerable people who rely on services and calls for a debate about what needs to be done to turn the aspirations in the care bill into practical realities.
Community Care reports that councils may have to outsource low-level assessments to free up social workers for more complex cases and deal with a big hike in demand arising from care funding reforms.
As part of our Personalisation: What's Next? Series, Matt Bowsher, Assistant Director of Adult Social Services at Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, argues that good leadership has a key role in the future of personalisation and shares some tips on how to be a good leader.
Martin Farran, ADASS Policy Lead for Personalisation and Executive Director of Adults and Communities at Barnsley Council, has shared his reflections on the journey of personalisation as part of our blog series "What's next for Personalisation?".
Skills for Care are looking for feedback on the draft version of The Principles of Workforce Integration that are designed to bring together services that interact with people who need care and support.
A new policy paper published by the Health Service Management Centre at the University of Birmingham and the Centre for Welfare Reform argues that focusing on quantitative and medically orientated notions of what constitutes valid evidence neglects the practice wisdom of front-line staff and the lived experience of people who use services and carers.