The Social Services Improvement Agency (SSIA) organise a Learning and Improvement Network (LIN) for Local Authorities interested in making Citizen Directed Support happen in Wales.
This Network is very influential and is helping shape the way Social Services change the way that they work to make it more citizen directed.
They have produced a draft paper setting our what Citizen Directed Support is as part of the Welsh Assembly’s Sustainable Social Services for Wales – Framework for Action.
The ‘LIN’ wants our views about their draft paper you can download it by clicking on this link.
At our Members Open Space on the 22nd November members welcomed this paper with it’s emphasis on relationships, transparency, and community.
It is very important we give the ‘LIN’ good feedback so that we can make this paper reflect the needs and interests of people across Wales.
They also want to include in this paper stories of people taking control of their lives and living the community lives that they want.
Please offer us your comments below tell us if you have stories that you want to share.
Filed under: Local Authority, Policy and Practice
Thanks for the opportunity to comment on this.
I think the following sentence could be enhanced; from:
” CDS is seen to provide the opportunity to rebalance the nature of the social worker/client relationship, developing a transactional/co-productive partnership …”
to
” CDS is seen to provide the opportunity to rebalance the nature of the social worker/client relationship and/or the support service /service user reationship, developing a transformational /co-productive partnership …”
I also think it would be great if the LIN could recognise that as part of the whole system approach; effective care co-ordination and commissioning would inlude a reduction of the input / output monitoring burden on providers, enabling them to focus more on promoting person centred practices and outcomes based approaches.
Maria Bell