Making It Real and the Local Account

NW Event Cornerhouse, Manchester 12th March 2013

Making It Real Event 26.3.13 – LondonMatt Bowsher – Assistant Director – Dudley MBC

“I have good support but not until I hit rock bottom, its getting to the ‘good stuff’, it is out there but it is about getting to it in the first place”.View of a Dudley Resident April 2012

Strategic Context

Cornerstones of Making it Real and personalisation are

• Co-production or put more simply “working together”

• Hearing not just listening

Complete, accurate and timely information is vital for people to make informed decisions about themselves and on behalf of others

People who use services and carer

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DudleyHeathwatch

Dudley CVS

Other involvement

networks

ULO’s

Engagement Structures

People who use services and carer

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Information and advice

Active and Supportive Community

My Support My Money

Workforce

Implementation Group

Programme BoardMaking It RealGovernance

Production of the Local Account

Our Local Account asked four questions:

1.What has worked well about your careand support in the last year?

2. What has not worked so well?

3. What could you or others do to make your life better?

4. What does having a good quality of life mean to you?

You say, we do. “We have had to actively seek out information, we are trying to cope with a difficult situation on a daily basis. The Council needs to be more pro-active.”We are sorry to hear this. Over the

next 12 months we will improve the quality of information and support that we provide via ouraccess team and other public access points including Healthwatch “My personal budget has taken a

long time to approve. It doesn’t allow any time to support me with shopping or voluntary work which is important to me.”We will review our processes to

ensure individual priorities are responded to. We will also explore wider resources in the community to increase the range of choice available

Increasing Engagement

We will “Map” participants

• Geographically • By Gender• By Age• By Disability • By Ethnicity etc. etc.

To ensure that the people with whom we engage with make up a truly representative sample of the boroughs population

We have gaps in particular “communities” we will proactively recruit people from these “communities”

Every intervention with a member of the public is an opportunity to promote engagement

Stimulating the Marketplace

Market intelligence

Market structuring

Market intervention

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The development of a common and shared perspective of supply and

demand, including the Engagement Bank, Local Account and Provider

Engagement leading to evidenced, published, market

position statements for a given market.

The activities designed to give the market shape and structure, where commissioner behaviour is visible and the outcomes they are trying to achieve agreed, or at least accepted.

The interventions commissioners make in order to deliver the kind

of market believed to be necessary for any given community.

Supporting Resources

The Dudley Local Account is online here

Making it Real is here

@mattbowsher1

@MIRDudley

@stulack59

“The Council bent over backwards to help me to help myself. I am benefitting from activities I didn’t know existed. I am an important member of my Community again.”