This briefing highlights the central role social workers have in developing and delivering personalised social care. It looks at the values and skills that social workers bring to personalisation and how these skills can be used to get better outcomes for service users. Areas where social work might develop its role in personalisation are highlighted as: interpersonal support; promoting people's rights and working with families and communities. Two short case studies illustrating social workers role in personalisation are also included.
This briefing highlights the central role social workers have in developing and delivering personalised social care. It looks at the values and skills that social workers bring to personalisation and how these skills can be used to get better outcomes for service users. Areas where social work might develop its role in personalisation are highlighted as: interpersonal support; promoting people's rights and working with families and communities. Two short case studies illustrating social workers role in personalisation are also included.
Subject terms:
personalisation, social work methods, social workers, adult social care;
SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, ADVOCACY PARTNERS
Publisher:
Social Care Institute for Excellence
Publication year:
2009
Pagination:
4p.
Place of publication:
London
This briefing examines the implications of the personalisation agenda for advocacy workers. Personalisation, including personal budgets, may change the type of support that people ask their advocacy workers to provide. In particular there may be a greater need for support from advocates to enable people to consider how money is spent and support organised. Other people may wish to use a part
This briefing examines the implications of the personalisation agenda for advocacy workers. Personalisation, including personal budgets, may change the type of support that people ask their advocacy workers to provide. In particular there may be a greater need for support from advocates to enable people to consider how money is spent and support organised. Other people may wish to use a part of their personal budget to buy support from an advocate, additional to that which should be freely provided as part of a universal information and advice service. Advocates and their organisations may want to consider whether and how they change in view of the potential changing requests.
This report is aimed at those involved in developing, providing and leading personalisation and social inclusion for mental health. It is also aimed at those developing the leaders of the future. The report explores three key questions: what is at the heart of the personalisation and social inclusion challenge in the contemporary and future mental health context?; what are the leadership
This report is aimed at those involved in developing, providing and leading personalisation and social inclusion for mental health. It is also aimed at those developing the leaders of the future. The report explores three key questions: what is at the heart of the personalisation and social inclusion challenge in the contemporary and future mental health context?; what are the leadership challenges in transforming mental health social care to deliver more personalised support, inclusion and care choices?; and the implications for the development of leaders and leadership?
Subject terms:
leadership, mental health services, personalisation, social inclusion;
This briefing provides key messages on the implications of the personalisation agenda for community mental health services. It looks specifically at personal budgets and self-directed support and the particular challenges for mental health services. The final section offers an overview of the main stages in a journey through services.
This briefing provides key messages on the implications of the personalisation agenda for community mental health services. It looks specifically at personal budgets and self-directed support and the particular challenges for mental health services. The final section offers an overview of the main stages in a journey through services.
Subject terms:
personal budgets, personalisation, self-directed support, community mental health services;
SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, NATIONAL CENTRE FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING
Publisher:
Social Care Institute for Excellence
Publication year:
2009
Pagination:
3p.
Place of publication:
London
User-led organisations are organisations that are controlled by people who use support services. They were set up to promote giving people more choice about how their support needs were met. This briefing examines the role user led organisations can play in the personalisation agenda. This includes their role in offering peer support, encouraging co-production and ensuring they have their rightful place in the social care community. Two examples of user-led organisations who are working with local authorities and development personalisation support services are provided.
User-led organisations are organisations that are controlled by people who use support services. They were set up to promote giving people more choice about how their support needs were met. This briefing examines the role user led organisations can play in the personalisation agenda. This includes their role in offering peer support, encouraging co-production and ensuring they have their rightful place in the social care community. Two examples of user-led organisations who are working with local authorities and development personalisation support services are provided.
Subject terms:
personalisation, user participation, user-led organisations, co-production;
SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DISABILITY GROUP
Publisher:
Social Care Institute for Excellence
Publication year:
2009
Pagination:
3p.
Place of publication:
London
This briefing summarises the implications of the personalisation agenda for voluntary and third sector service providers, particularly service managers. Key messages include: thinking radically about what service provision is available and how it is provided; building open, co-productive relationships with all stakeholders; having a shared understanding of what personalisation means; and ensuring that all staff training is informed by the principles of personalisation. Three short case examples are included.
This briefing summarises the implications of the personalisation agenda for voluntary and third sector service providers, particularly service managers. Key messages include: thinking radically about what service provision is available and how it is provided; building open, co-productive relationships with all stakeholders; having a shared understanding of what personalisation means; and ensuring that all staff training is informed by the principles of personalisation. Three short case examples are included.
Subject terms:
personalisation, social care provision, voluntary sector;
SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health, ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF ADULT SOCIAL SERVICES
Publisher:
Social Care Institute for Excellence
Publication year:
2009
Pagination:
5p.
Place of publication:
London
This briefing provides an overview of what personalisation means for commissioners of social care services. It highlights the main tasks for commissioners delivering personalisation as ensuring the right balance of investment and shaping the market. It also looks at necessary changes to contracting and procurement models, with a shift towards outcomes-focused and person-centred approaches. Two
This briefing provides an overview of what personalisation means for commissioners of social care services. It highlights the main tasks for commissioners delivering personalisation as ensuring the right balance of investment and shaping the market. It also looks at necessary changes to contracting and procurement models, with a shift towards outcomes-focused and person-centred approaches. Two practice examples are included.
Subject terms:
personalisation, social care provision, commissioning, contracts;
This report takes stock of how far the UK’s health and care services still need to go on integration for high-quality, personalised cancer care to be a reality for everyone. It highlights that experiences of cancer services are far from seamless. People with cancer are still falling into the cracks between primary and secondary care: information is not always tailored to individual needs; support for wider needs, including mental health, is patchy and often delayed. Cancer professionals and the wider workforce are working flat out, but the system is too geared towards rapid measurement of diagnosis and treatment. Personalised care is too often an ‘add on’. The analysis suggests there are four key dimensions to personalised, integrated cancer care that need to be addressed: everyone with cancer can access personalised, joined-up care – the report indicates that not everyone can access this tailored support at all stages of their cancer journey; people with cancer are supported by health and care professionals consistently working together – sometimes coordination across settings falls down, affecting people’s care; people with cancer receive personalised, integrated care across services provided by different parts of the system – integrated care often breaks down during transitions between services and needs are overlooked; services are designed, commissioned and funded around the goal of personalised, integrated cancer care - the fragmentation of cancer funding, commissioning and provision mean that services are not always aligned around the needs of the individual.
(Edited publisher abstract)
This report takes stock of how far the UK’s health and care services still need to go on integration for high-quality, personalised cancer care to be a reality for everyone. It highlights that experiences of cancer services are far from seamless. People with cancer are still falling into the cracks between primary and secondary care: information is not always tailored to individual needs; support for wider needs, including mental health, is patchy and often delayed. Cancer professionals and the wider workforce are working flat out, but the system is too geared towards rapid measurement of diagnosis and treatment. Personalised care is too often an ‘add on’. The analysis suggests there are four key dimensions to personalised, integrated cancer care that need to be addressed: everyone with cancer can access personalised, joined-up care – the report indicates that not everyone can access this tailored support at all stages of their cancer journey; people with cancer are supported by health and care professionals consistently working together – sometimes coordination across settings falls down, affecting people’s care; people with cancer receive personalised, integrated care across services provided by different parts of the system – integrated care often breaks down during transitions between services and needs are overlooked; services are designed, commissioned and funded around the goal of personalised, integrated cancer care - the fragmentation of cancer funding, commissioning and provision mean that services are not always aligned around the needs of the individual.
(Edited publisher abstract)
Subject terms:
cancer, person-centred care, integrated care, personalisation;
British Journal of Social Work, 46(5), 2016, pp.1301-1317.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
... the challenge that ABI presents to statutory social work, this paper will start by outlining the common characteristics of ABI and consider the (limited) relevant policy guidance. The particular difficulties of reconciling the needs of people with ABI with the prevailing orthodoxies of personalisation will then be explored, with a particular focus on the mismatch between systems which rest on presumptions
(Publisher abstract)
Increasing numbers of adults in the UK are living with acquired brain injury (ABI), with those affected requiring immediate medical care and longer-term rehabilitative and social care. Despite their social needs, limited attention has been paid to people with ABI within the social work literature and their needs are also often overlooked in policy and guidance. As a means of highlighting the challenge that ABI presents to statutory social work, this paper will start by outlining the common characteristics of ABI and consider the (limited) relevant policy guidance. The particular difficulties of reconciling the needs of people with ABI with the prevailing orthodoxies of personalisation will then be explored, with a particular focus on the mismatch between systems which rest on presumptions autonomy and the circumstances of individuals with ABI - typified by executive dysfunction and lack of insight into their own condition. Composite case studies, drawn from the first author's experiences as a case manager for individuals with ABI, will be used to illustrate the arguments being made. The paper will conclude by considering the knowledge and skills which social workers need in order to better support people with ABI.
(Publisher abstract)
Subject terms:
head injuries, social work, personalisation, needs;
The mistreatment of older people is increasingly recognised internationally as a significant abuse of elders’ human rights. Scandals and inquiries into the failure to protect older people from abuse in health and social care systems rarely address, and still less challenge, the social, economic and cultural context to the abuse of older people. This critical and challenging book makes a strong case for the development of ethically-driven, research-informed policy and practice to safeguard older people from abuse. Drawing on findings of original UK research and framed in an international context, it illustrates ways in which ageism, under-resourced services to older people, target-driven health and social care policy and services, and organisational cultures of blame and scapegoating, are a powerful yet invisible backcloth to elder abuse.
(Edited publisher abstract)
The mistreatment of older people is increasingly recognised internationally as a significant abuse of elders’ human rights. Scandals and inquiries into the failure to protect older people from abuse in health and social care systems rarely address, and still less challenge, the social, economic and cultural context to the abuse of older people. This critical and challenging book makes a strong case for the development of ethically-driven, research-informed policy and practice to safeguard older people from abuse. Drawing on findings of original UK research and framed in an international context, it illustrates ways in which ageism, under-resourced services to older people, target-driven health and social care policy and services, and organisational cultures of blame and scapegoating, are a powerful yet invisible backcloth to elder abuse.
(Edited publisher abstract)