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The future of NAAPS: member survey and debate
This Autumn finds us right at the beginning of our business planning process.
We would like to get our members involved in this, so that you can influence the
work that we put into our plans for next financial year (from 1 April 2011). We
are sending Shared Lives schemes, Homeshare organisations and Small Community
Service members some slides which we hope you will have a chance to look at -
they contain six questions about your views on the future of NAAPS.
There will be discussions about these slides at every regional and country committee
meeting and at the Homeshare meeting. We would be grateful if Shared Lives schemes
could also discuss these questions with your Shared Lives carer groups locally.
We will include the questions in the next Shared Lives carer newsletter and they
are available as an online survey to any member here: www.surveymonkey.com/s/VNMMJ9K
LAUNCH OF THE NAAPS SOCIAL ENTERPRISE
Community Catalysts Ltd, a NAAPS Social Enterprise, was launched on 1 January
2010. The new company allows NAAPS to take forward its charitable purposes through
trading, generating income in the process which will ensure that the charity is
sustainable in the long term.
Community Catalysts aims to provide real choice for people who need support and
services by ensuring that very small care services delivered by individuals and
families in local communities can develop and thrive
It is going to do this by providing:
a) Help to local authorities and other organisations who want to support
very small care services or expand their Shared Lives service. The help could
be just providing advice and support or the company can if the local authority
wants run the service on their behalf.
b) A quality marking service for agencies that support very small care services
and for Shared Lives Schemes (the quality mark will allow agencies and Schemes
to show local authorities and others how good they are)
c) Products and services (such as training, seminars and publications) for Shared Lives Schemes and Carers, support agencies and small community service
providers to help them meet standards and improve the way in which they are working.
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Sian Lockwood has been seconded by the NAAPS Board of Trustees to act as Chief
Executive of the new company for two years.
The website for Community Catalysts can be found at www.communitycatalysts.co.uk
SHARED LIVES IN SCOTLAND
Anne Fernie, Scotland Development Worker for NAAPS, explains the development of Shared Lives in Scotland which provides community based support for vulnerable people. click here for the full report.
SHARED LIVES SCHEMES' MENTAL CAPACITY ACT TRAINING
SCIE funded NAAPS to produce a pack to enable SL Schemes to provide SL Carers
with training on the new Mental Capacity Act.
The entire pack is available as a zip file here. If you opt to save the Zip File it will be saved on your hard drive and put
a shortcut icon on your Desktop.
The Business Case for Shared Lives
NAAPS was commissioned by IESE to produce a Shared Lives Research Report [8.55 MB] that brings together quality, outcomes and financial information about
Shared Lives schemes in the south east region. The research and evaluation stage
of the the project is now complete and the report can be downloaded from: