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Micro, Mutual and Personal: Relational approaches for a new care and support system

Partnership opportunity for a ResPublica project commencing 2013

The Draft Care and Support Bill, published in July of 2012, will mark one of the most radical reforms to the social care system in recent decades. The move towards increased personalisation, matched with a more 'asset-based' approach which draws on the skills and responsibilities of both individuals and communities, opens up a range of opportunities for innovation throughout the sector. Personal budget holders, service users and their surrounding communities could become much more active in shaping, designing and owning the services they receive. 

ResPublica is calling for partners for a new research project which will investigate this potential, assessing the range of emerging and innovative micro, mutual and personalised approaches to care, support and inclusion.

Our research will explore the entrepreneurial and innovative opportunities open to personal budgets holder, their families and to front line social care workers. These include social care micro-enterprises, user-led commissioning and approaches which involve new relationships between services, people with long term conditions, and their communities. How could micro-scale and user- or community-led solutions become a more significant part of meeting the ever growing needs of older and disabled people? What can the state do to support them, rather than get in their way? What will be the role of providers and commissioners in a market place with many more personal budget and Direct Payment holders?

The project will be a flagship output of our Models and Partnerships for Social Prosperity workstream, and is now open to external engagement from third party organisations. For the next stage, ResPublica would like to establish a consortium of partners from the public, private and third sectors, who will feed in to our further research and debate in this area and benefit from co-branding on publications and events. For further information, or to discuss partnership opportunities, please contact Caroline Julian, Senior Researcher and Project Manager, at caroline.julian@respublica.org.uk. 

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Date Published
21 May 2012

Issue(s)
Models and Partnerships for Social Prosperity

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