Making it Real – For Everyone in Ealing Sue Graham Commissioning Development Manager
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Making it Real - For Everyone in Ealing
Who is involved?Ealing CertitudePeople who use servicesFamilies
About the workShort breaks for people with challenging needs Focus on:
Supporting people in crisis Supporting discharge from hospital Young people in transition
What works well?
• Person centred approaches
• Working together with people who use services, families, clinicians, commissioners, schools and other providers
• Learning from our mistakes
• Sharing the risks
What are the challenges?
• Increasing demand• Meeting the diverse needs• Planned / crisis support• Capacity within local community health team
Milton Keynes Council and
MacIntyre
“Working in partnership to enable people with complex needs to move back to Milton Keynes and to live a
life that makes sense to them”
The positives• A shared ethos – it is all about the person • A great exchange of expertise, experience between the two
organisations • Relationship building between two organisations.• Merging of best practice – “Living Locally” and “On Track”
• Multi-disciplinary team meetings and co-production
• Pooling of training and other resources
• Ownership and assessment of risk by Milton Keynes Council
• Agreed protocols for the ongoing monitoring of risk
• Continual reflection and learning.
The not so positive
• Lead in times (18 months) • Complexities of individual circumstances leading to “timescales
slippage” • Upfront investment required for person centred transitions and
staff recruitment and induction • Availability of suitable housing • Change in key leadership figures • Retention of staff team as timescales stall.
Sharing experiences past and present to make it real
for everyone.
Leeds City Council
Real Life Options
About our work
Providing bespoke support for people with autism and complex needs
Supporting people to stay in their local community
Preventing people going into Assessment and Treatment Units or returning to Assessment and Treatment Units
Enabling people to come back home from out of area placements