The proposed Social Services Bill needs to provide the necessary foundation for Citizen Directed Support in Wales.
The Assembly is looking for our views about this very important piece of legislation.
The consultation is open until 1st June 2012.
The Consultation document both full and easy read can be accessed at this address
Social Services (Wales) Bill consultation
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I’m concerned that the citizen empowerment aspect of the bill seems to be limited to the right to be informed and that service-users are defined as ‘people in need’ albeit in an ‘active’ sense (whatever that means!).
I’ve just come back from a superb co-production service-user involvement training course in Glasgow, and a meeting with staff in the Institute of Research in Social Services (IRISS). Scottish legislation is involving service users in the design AND delivery of their services: it’s effective, sustainable, flexible and genuinely empowering.
The All in this Together event in Cardiff on 4th is part of a movement to make co-production/service-user involvement the major form of delivery in Wales. Please do join us to ensure that the opportunity to embed this values-based approach is not missed.
Thanks Ruth – I agree entirely, the right to be informed exists within the us and them world of services and service users. For us to move to a approach which is really about services and supports being created by citizens working together using each others skills and assets supported by both money and shared time then ‘A stronger voice and real control’ must mean something much more active.
If there are places left I would thoroughly recommend going along to ‘All in this Together 2′ this Thursday http://allinthistogether2.eventbrite.co.uk/