Social Care Strategies Ltd

Increasingly we are being asked to work with health and social care organisations to help them make a reality of their ambitions for personalised services. Our approach is simple – we begin by enabling people at all levels of the organisation to describe what success will look like, we find out what has stopped them doing it already, and then we make a plan to achieve their ambitions. Above all we make sure that people who use services and their carers have a real say in the development and implementation of this plan.

North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus is an integrated health and social care organisation. Social Care Strategies has been appointed by the Trust to lead a major project to commission housing and support as an alternative to residential and nursing care for people with learning disabilities. This project will fulfil commissioners’ expectations to deliver better, local outcomes at a lower cost. Immediate project priorities include: developing housing & support for young people who would otherwise be placed in institutional care; re-providing for people currently placed in residential & nursing care both within & outside the borough; analysing need of young people who will be in transition in the next five years.

Medway Primary Care Trust needed to work out the number and type of acute mental health beds that it needed for the population of Medway and Swale. Social Care Strategies Ltd was commissioned to design and lead this project. We began by running a workshop for service users and carers to learn about their good and bad experiences of using services. We then engaged all stakeholders using the workbook Laying the foundations for better mental health care. Contact us to find out more or share your own experiences.

Rockspur is a user-led organisation for people with learning disabilities in South Staffordshire. Social Care Strategies has supported Rockspur to develop its independence and take real control of its own affairs.

In practice this meant helping the group write its constitution, set up its managements structure and negotiate its business plan with the Council. Contact us to find out more or share your own experiences of supporting the development of user-led organisations.

Social Care Strategies Ltd has run conferences for between 100 and 200 people to give service users and carers a real say in the development and implementation of projects. These events bring real focus and momentum to projects – as well as improving outcomes by learning from people’s real experiences.

Click here for a report of a recent event.