How will the model of Citizen Directed Support develop in Wales?
Who will decide how it will be implemented across Wales?
How can people get involved in this huge process of change?
These are questions that I hear people regularly ask, and the Alliance is working together to try and answer.
As part of the preparation for a Consultation document from the Welsh Assembly about the development of personalisation we have agreed this diagram with the Citizen Directed Support Learning and Improvement Network.
It tries to explain how decisions are made and how all the different groups are trying to work together to make this change happen.
Developing Citizen Directed Support
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The text included in the graphic appears below.
Open Space for organisations and groups making CDS happen
- A ‘think and do tank’ sharing ideas, exploring development, and amplifying the voices of people trying to make citizen directed support an everyday reality.
- Open to all agencies and groups and individuals with a stake in CDS.
- Facilitated by Rick Wilson CLC – www.wacds.org.uk
Wales Alliance for Citizen Directed Support
- Working together to ensure that people have choice and control over their lives, living as independently as possible as part of their community.
- Local Authorities from CDS LIN, Service Providers, Representative Organisations and Citizens with an interest in CDS.
- Chairs – Luke Conlon and Jonathon Richards – www.wacds.org.uk
Learning and Improvement Network – CDS LIN
- Supporting Local Authorities to implement policy and procedures for all elements of CDS and sharing these using the web.
- Facilitated by Sheila Wentworth SSIA, open to all LAs – http://bit.ly/SSIAcdsLIN
All Wales Adult Service Heads - (AWASH) CDS Workstream
- Providing the senior professional forum which works on behalf of ADSS with Welsh Government to formulate and develop policy around CDS.
- Lead Heads Mike Murphy Cardiff (Chair), Deborah Driffield, Swansea, Bob Gatis RCT
Association of Directors of Social Services Cymru (ADSS) – New Models of Care Workstream
- Influencing and shaping new models of social care
- Lead Director for Citizen Directed Support – Sue Evans Torfaen
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The graphic is well designed and easy to follow and in essence defines a process. My thoughts are: Where is the Citizen in this? We have to be Citizen driven not process driven or at least have the Citizen driving the process.
I agree that this is the question. At the last Council meeting we discussed proposing a process (which I am working on) that involves citizens widely in developing the outcomes that would be the foundation of the Assembly’s approach to outcomes. An approach like this was used in Scotland and was called Talking Points. If this really involved people it would give people to tools to work with providers and commissioners equally to say ‘why are my services / experiences not like these outcomes’. This process might give a real way in to the process of individual citizens and citizen groups.
What do you think?