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EnglandConference – 8/9th November 2016
What:the only national learning event for people involved in Shared Lives - we will learn from each other and expert facilitators, hear from national leaders, and celebrate Shared Lives. This year’s theme is Health and Shared Lives
Where: Bristol Marriott Royal Hotel, College Green,Bristol, BS1 5TA.
When:8th November (AGM, evening meal and entertainment) and 9th November conference.
Who is it for:Shared Lives carers, their families, people who used Shared Lives, Shared Lives scheme workers and people developing or commissioning Shared Lives schemes.
What’s on: – In addition to keynote speakers including Sam Bennett, Head of Personalised Commissioning at NHS England we will have a varied selection of workshops on offer (please see overleaf for further details)
What’s New: - This year’s Shared Lives Plus Conference will for the first time include the Homeshare Network.
The exclusive Homeshare strand of the conference will include:
- A presentation on the work of Homeshare International by Elizabeth Mills looking at some of the key good practice from around the world.
- An ‘issue based’ workshop looking at barriers and challenges for Homeshare organisations.
- Launch of the Homeshare Quality Assurance Framework.
This dedicated learning event for Homeshare practitioners will be run by the Homeshare Partner Programme of which Shared Lives Plus have been key stakeholders for the past 18months.
ACCOMMODATION - As well as the Bristol Marriott Royal Hotel (0117 925 5100) there are lots of other hotels offering bed and breakfastin Bristol City Centre including:Holiday Inn, Bond Street 01179245000; Future Inn, Bond Street South 02030271433; Travelodge Bristol Central Mitchell Lane 08719846469
WHAT LAST YEAR’S DELEGATES THOUGHT
“Fantastic conference, so informative and interesting. Workshops were excellent – look forward to next year”
“Very informative day – well done”
“Thoroughly enjoyable day”!
“The choices of workshops were really good and very relevant”
For further information please contact: Lynne Harrison, Shared Lives Plus,tel: 0151 227 3499 or email: or use the attached form to make your booking, please return to Shared Lives Plus
G04 The Cotton Exchange, Old Hall Street, Liverpool, L3 9JR or email to
BOOKING FORM
Delegate Type - / Cost / No. of delegatesScheme Worker / Conference only (includes lunch) / £120
2 day pass – conference, dinner & reception / £160
Shared Lives Carer – Member / Conference only (includes lunch) / £ 40
2 day pass – conference, dinner& reception / £ 70
Shared Lives Carer – Non Member / Conference only (includes lunch) / £ 70
2 day pass – conference, dinner& reception / £ 100
People who use Shared Lives / Conference only (includes lunch) / £ 40
2 day pass – conference, dinner & reception / £ 70
Joint Worker + Shared Lives Carer discountMember / Conference only (includes lunch) / £150
2 day pass – conference, dinner & reception / £ 220
Non Members (including Commissioners) / Conference only (includes lunch) / £ 220
2 day pass – conference, dinner & reception / £ 260
Cancellation/Amendment
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Changes will become effective on the date of written confirmation being received.
In the event of a delegate named on the booking form being unable to attend, we will accept substitution of another delegate on the condition that written notification of the substitution has been received by us prior to the event date.
Cancellation 15 calendar days or more before the start date of the event – 50% refund of fee will be given
Between 1 and 14 calendar days (inclusive/failure to attend – no refund will be given
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PROGRAMME
8th November 2016
5.00Shared Lives Plus Annual General Meeting
6.30Drinks Reception
7.00Dinner
9.00Entertainment
11.00Close
9th November 2016
8.45 Tea/coffee, Savouries and Registration
9.15Welcome and introduction by conference co-chairs:
9.30Keynote Speaker(s) – (including senior representative from NHS)
10.00Plenary Session: Alex Fox, Chief Executive, Shared Lives Plus
10.30Refreshments
11.00 Workshop 1
12.00Lunch
13.15Workshop 2
14.15Workshop 3
15.30Closing Plenary Session
16.00Conference end
NB – please note these timings are provisional and subject to slight change.
WORKSHOPS
- Meet the Chair and CEO of Shared Lives
Delivered by Alex Fox, CEO of Shared Lives
Richard Jones, Chair of Shared Lives Plus
A session for Shared Lives carers to hear directly from Alex and Richard about the current plans for Shared Lives Plus and how you can help to shape them. The session will also feature a discussion about your views of Shared Lives Plus, what our priorities should be and how we can most effectively support and represent the interests of Shared Lives carers in England.
- My Shared Life
Delivered by Jenni Kirkham, NHS Programme Officer, Shared Lives Plus
Marc Cattini, M.A.C. Consultancy Services (software developer for the online portal)
My Shared Life is a new outcomes measuring tool, unique to Shared Lives. Throughout 2016, around 20 Shared Lives schemes have built it in to everyday processes and have piloted it with people using Shared Lives in their local areas. This workshop will not only showcase the My Shared Life online portal, but it will explain how the schemes involved in the pilot have used it to demonstrate the difference that Shared Lives has made to people across 6 areas of wellbeing.
This workshop will be hosted by Jenni Kirkham from Shared Lives Plus and Marc Cattini, the software developer for the online portal. It will include a live-link up to the website where you will have an opportunity to look around the online portal and see what it can do. There will be a demonstration of the way that the online portal can run reports for individuals and cohorts of people from within a local area.
- Shared Lives Plus NHS Programme
Delivered by Fiona Clark, NHS Programme Director, Shared Lives Plus
In April 2016 Shared Lives Plus embarked on an exciting project to develop Shared Lives in the health sector with the support of NHS England. Fiona will outline some of the key initiatives and priorities in the NHS at the moment, the opportunities that these provide for Shared Lives as well as sharing the work on the programme so far.
- Safeguarding in Shared Lives
Delivered by Sally Crombie, Head of Operations, Shared Lives South West
Anna McEwen, Executive Director of Support and Development, Shared Lives Plus
This workshop will explore what good likes like in Shared Lives when it comes to Safeguarding. Sally has a background in working in Safeguarding in a local authority and will discuss the changes in Safeguarding requirements since the Care Act and also share the experiences of SLSW working across four local authority areas. Anna will introduce the Shared Lives Plus Safeguarding report, published in 2016, and our recommendations for Shared Lives carers and schemes.
- Shared Lives Quality Framework
Delivered by: Mark Gallagher, Senior Support and Quality Officer, Shared Lives Plus
Tim Southern, CEO, Ategiand Matt Holmes, Scheme manager, East Sussex Shared Lives scheme
Shared Lives Plus has been working in partnership with Shared Lives schemes to develop a quality framework for the Shared Lives sector across the UK. The quality framework is a practical tool which enables Shared Lives schemes and Shared Lives carers to self-evaluate the effectiveness of the scheme, to identify areas of good practice and areas for improvement and improve the quality of the scheme.
The workshop will explore and discuss how the quality framework has been developed, how it can be used effectively and how it will be used by the Shared Lives sector.
- Dual diagnosis (mental health and learning disabilities)
Delivered by: Jane Allen, Development Officer (Socially Excluded Adults), Shared Lives Plus
Lyn Cannings, Senior Shared Lives Officer, East Sussex Shared Lives scheme
This workshop is for Shared Lives workers and Shared Lives carers supporting people with mental ill health and learning disabilities.
By focusing on the experience of people with learning disabilities and their Shared Lives carers, we will draw on the latest recommendations advising on the prevention, early identification and management of mental ill health in people with learning disabilities. Attendees will gain a useful insight into planning and providing good quality mental health support to people with learning disabilities.
- Working with young people leaving care
Delivered by Denise Nygate, Development Officer (Young People in transition), Shared Lives Plus.
Sara Podmore, Scheme manager, Telford and Wrekin Shared Lives scheme
Denise and Sara will be discussing how Shared Lives can effectively support children (aged 16 and over) who have been living in fostering arrangements and children’s homes. Sara is the registered manager for the Telford and Wrekin Shared Lives scheme and has been actively developing Shared Lives as an option for children leaving care, over the last two years.
The workshop will provide plenty of positive examples of how Shared Lives has worked for children leaving care and practical learning for Shared Lives workers to take back to their schemes. The workshop will also help Shared Lives carers to understand how to effectively support a young person leaving care in a Shared Lives arrangement and to also provide learning from the difficult cases that Telford and Wrekin Shared Lives carers have experienced.
- Intermediate care (Home from hospital)
Delivered by Sue Eley, Development Manager, Shared Lives Plus
Jenny Evans, Development Officer (Intermediate Care), Shared Lives Plus
Shared Lives Plus have embarked on a three year project working with schemes to develop a Home from Hospital service, aimed particularly at older people. Jenny Evans has been leading the project since June 2016 and will be working with a number of schemes running pilots to explore issues and challenges, how to get a service up and running and what works best. This workshop will share our learning to date, plans for taking this work forward and how to get involved with this exciting development.
- Circles of Support
Delivered by Denise Nygate, Development Officer (Young People in transition), Shared Lives Plus.
Denise is an experienced Circles of support facilitator and will be talking about what circles of support are, how to identify them, what tools you can use, and how to get the most out of this approach. This is an interactive session which will provide Shared Lives schemes and Shared Lives carers with the necessary understanding and tools to plan their own circles of support and also for people who use Shared Lives.
As a Shared Lives carer herself she will also be discussing how she has effectively used the Circles of Support approach to ensure the person she supports in Shared Lives to make natural friendships and move away from just having people who are paid to support her in her life.
The session is also open for people who use Shared Lives to attend with their Shared Lives carer and to complete their own Circle of Support.
- How Circles of Support can be used to recruit Shared Lives carers and support carers
Delivered by Denise Nygate, Development Officer (Young People in transition), Shared Lives Plus.
Denise will be exploring how Circles of Support can be used by Shared Lives carers to identify potential Shared Lives support carers from their own communities, and how Shared schemes can use this approach as an effective recruitment tool.
This session is also open to participants who did not attend the Circles of Support workshop
- People dying in Shared Lives arrangements
Delivered by Mark Gallagher, Senior Support and Quality Officer, Shared Lives Plus
When a person using Shared Lives dies it can be an incredibly difficult time for the Shared Lives carer on an emotional, practical and financial level. Mark will be exploring this important topic of what Shared Lives carers and schemes need to know and do when a person using Shared Lives dies.
- Outstanding Shared Lives
Delivered by CQC and Northampton Shared Lives (Further detail to follow)
- Ideas to action - Campaign planning and tactics
Delivered by Lyn Griffiths, Support and Engagement Manager, Shared Lives Plus
Judith Holman, Shared Lives Carers Support and Development, Shared Lives Plus
Projects and campaigns usually start because we feel inspired about an idea or passionate about a particular issue. Our first impulse is to throw ourselves into action straightaway. But if we take a little time to analyse the situation and to develop a plan of action we can increase our effectiveness and our chances of success.
By spending a bit of time thinking about how to move from ideas to action you can make the best use of people's time and energy. It will also help to stop you from getting disillusioned half way through.
Using a real life issue faced by Shared Lives carers this workshop aims to show you how to plan a campaign that will help you move from an idea to action.
- Supporting Vulnerable Parents in Shared Lives arrangements
Delivered by Jane Bell Chief Executive Shared Lives South West
Shared Lives South West has a track record in parent/child placements, and has won a national award for its work in this field.The workshop will look at how Shared Lives arrangements for parents and their children can work. We will consider some of the practical and financial aspects of placements and try and unpickhow a Shared Lives package would be viewed by all the parties who might be involved – adult social care, children’s services, CAFCASS and all the legal professionals. We will also look at what sorts of skills and experience a Shared Lives carer might need to have and the sort of support the scheme might need to put into a parent/child arrangement
- Community Care Assessments – what you need to know
Delivered by Jenny Evans, Development Officer (Intermediate Care), Shared Lives Plus
Community Care Assessments are carried out to identify an individual’s support needs and then develop a support plan to meet eligible needs.
This workshop will look at:
- Why they are important for people accessing services.
- Guidance around the processes.
- How to get the best from a Community Care Assessment.
- What can Shared Lives carers do to support an individual through their assessment.
- What needs can or cannot be met via a Community Care Assessment.
- What can individuals and Shared Lives carers do if they are unhappy with the assessment or outcome.
- Enterprising opportunities for people using Shared Lives
Delivered by Helen Allen, Manager of Enterprise and Community Innovation, Community Catalysts
Helen Allen will share the experience of how Community Catalysts support older people and people with a disability to harness their talents and passions and run their own social activity, contribute to their community or set up their own community enterprise. As people are now using traditional day services less and less, this approach can help them to do new things with their time, connect with different people and be seen in a really positive way. Helen will share stories of folks who are doing great things and how Shared Lives carers can start new conversations with the people that they support and help them to do something new.