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Contents
Feedback from Launch
ULO Who’s Who
Future Events
Personalisation Terminology
Request for Information
Terms of Reference
Peer Brokerage Support
Members’ Information Slot
Personalisation Links
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Feedback from Network launch
Over 50 people came to the launch
of the MK ULO Network on 24 May at
Acorn House.
Chris Holmes, Chief Executive of
Derbyshire CIL, explained how the
Network could ensure that disabled
people make the most of the choices
that are now available to them because
of recent changes in Adult Social Care.
Workshop discussions looked at what
shape the ULO Network should take
and what it should do first.
Service users needed to know what the
options were before they could decide
what they wanted from Personalisation.
Groups would, therefore, need to
provide them with extra information and
support, such as Peer Brokerage.
The Network had to be useful to its
members and not just repeat
something that already existed.
There had to be good, clear
communication between members.
Service users, providers and ULOs
should be contacted to make sure
everyone in the disability community
was involved.
The Network could share information,
expertise and resources. It would also
be able to promote partnerships and
joint working.
To download more details of the
workshop discussions and an easy
read summary of them, visit the MK
CIL web page at:
http://www.mkweb.co.uk/MK_Disability
See Page 2 for details of future
Network events.
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contact Lesley Marshall: e-mail [email protected];
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Please let us know if you would like ULO Update in large print or on tape.
ULO Network Who’s Who
ULO Network Staff
The Network staff will be working for
the benefit of all the groups who are
members, providing information and
support by phone, e-mail, and faceto-face.
Development Group
This has been set up to make plans
for the ULO Network. Representatives
from some of the larger groups
covering a range of different
disabilities, along with Council
officers, are currently on the Group. It
meets every other month:
Staff Members:
Lesley Marshall, Network
Development Worker
Angela Doherty, Peer Brokerage
Development Worker
Members:
Chris Checkley: CIL Board (Physical
Disability, service user)
Padma Cheriyan: LINk
Dave Ewing: CIL Lead Board
member
Diane Gordon: Manager MK CIL
Samantha James: People’s Voices
(Advocacy Services)
Hilda Kirkwood: Carers MK (Carers)
Kirsty Liddiard: CIL Board (Physical
Disability, younger person)
Steve McNay: MK Mind (Mental
Health)
Jane Palmer: Age UK (Older People)
Jean Rein: Talkback (Learning
Disability)
Lynne Stoodley: Alzheimer’s Society
(Dementia)
Mary Hartley: Lead Commissioner
MKC Social Care Reform Team
Samantha Samuels: Social Care
Reform Team
Maz Sarwar: Social Care Reform
Team
Barry Setchell: Social Work
Practitioner Social Care Reform Team
MK CIL
The Centre for Integrated Living is the
lead organisation for the ULO
Network. CIL also provides line
management for the two Network
staff.
Lesley and Angela are happy to visit
groups to tell them more about the
Network: their contact details are on
the front page.
Future Events
Post-Launch Follow Up Meeting
21 July, 2pm at CIL offices
Saxon Gate West, CMK
An opportunity to meet the
Steering Group and contribute
further to future plans for the
Network.
If you would be attending this
meeting, please tick the box on the
form e-mailed with this newsletter.
Consultation Event for
Service Users, 23 September,
Central Milton Keynes Location
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Please let your service users know
about this event and encourage as
many as possible to come. This is
their opportunity to get involved in
making Personalisation work for
them. Forms available from Lesley
Marshall. Individual invitations will
also be sent out shortly.
Personalisation Terminology
Resource Allocation System (RAS)
The system used to work out the
amount of money allocated to an
individual or informal carer following an
assessment.
Advocacy
Supporting people to explain their
views to other people.
Brokerage
Brokerage helps people choose, plan
and organise any support they need
to be independent.
Self-Directed Support
When people who are eligible for social
care decide what support they need,
how the support is used and who will
provide it to them.
Cash Payments
Payments made to people eligible for
help from social services, who want to
arrange and pay for their own care
and support services.
Support Plan (or Plan)
An agreed plan that describes how a
person will use their budget to achieve
their desired outcomes.
Indicative Personal Budget
An amount of money allocated to an
individual in order to meet their social
care needs following an assessment.
Supported Self-Assessment
Giving people the choice to assess
their own social care needs or carry out
an assessment on behalf of someone
else. Support is available if needed.
Personal Assistant (PA)
People can choose to use their
Personal Budget to employ Personal
Assistants to support them with their
social care needs.
Transformation
The process of making changes to
systems, structures, processes and
culture, which will bring about new
ways of delivering social care.
Personalisation
The term used to describe the
national agenda to reform the social
care system with an emphasis on
early intervention and increased
choice and control for service users.
Helping us to help you
So that we can start putting into
place the ideas that came from the
Launch, we need more details from
groups that want to be part of the
Network.
Prevention / Early Intervention
An emphasis on early intervention,
low-level support and advice networks
with a view to preventing or delaying
the need for higher intensity and more
costly care.
Please take time to complete and
return the form that has been sent
to you with this Newsletter. Giving
us this information will mean we
can focus on Network activities
that will be of most benefit.
Putting People First
The Government vision of the future
of social care launched in December
2007.
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Contact Lesley if you would like
this form in another format.
Peer Brokerage Support
The Latest on Personalisation
Angela Doherty has now been
appointed to develop the peer
brokerage role for the Network.
Putting People First in Milton
Keynes:
My Life, My Choice – Your Life, Your
Choice
The ULO (User Led Organisations)
Network will support people who
receive services from Adult Social Care
and who will now be getting their own
Personal Budget.
To keep up to date with the progress
being made by Milton Keynes Council’s
Social Care Reform Team, please take
a look at the following web site:
Local groups who are Network
members will be giving this support
through a “peer brokerage” service.
www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/socialcarereform
If you have any questions, you can
either speak to ASCAT on tel no.
01908 253772 or email
[email protected]
“Peer brokerage” is provided by
someone with a similar experience or
condition who can help a person plan
and organise the support they need to
be independent.
Milton Keynes CIL will be co-ordinating
this service to help find the peer
brokerage that best fits someone’s
needs.
Terms of Reference
One of the Development Group’s first
actions was to agree Terms of
Reference. These include a
description of a User Led Organisation
and can be found in the ULO section
of the CIL website at:
http://www.mkweb.co.uk/MK_Disability
Brokerage will also be available from
Milton Keynes Council’s Adult Social
Care Team.
Members’ Information
This space is for you!
ULO Update will be appearing 4-6 times a year. Please send details
regarding future events, training, requests, or any other information you
would like to share with Network members to Lesley via the e-mail address
on Page 1.
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