Personalisation – taking stock and moving forwards
This course has been cancelled
Date: 16 April
Time: 10am – 1pm
Trainer: Nick Clarke
Delivered by DLS’s London Development Officer this session is relevant to groups or individuals wanting to better understand personalisation or engage with the opportunities presented by it.
The session will briefly detail key research, policy and governmental documents about personalisation and show how the vision of personalisation emerges from the independent living movement, rooted in human and disability rights. It will also briefly show how personalisation fits within, and is constrained by, Community Care law. The course will also introduce some suggested tools for gathering information about how personalisation is working in your area, in order to increase local authorities’ accountability and transparency and how to challenge cuts to services.
In particular the course will include:
- The history of institutionalisation, the social model of disability and principles of independent living
- The key research, policy, guidance and other governmental documents articulating the vision of personalisation
- Challenges to the goals of personalisation
- Tools to find out more and gather evidence about how personalisation is working in your area
- Tools for challenging cuts to services (please note that our course on the Equality Duty covers some elements of what will be covered here in much greater detail)
- Discussion and action planning to improve services in your area