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Harnessing Community Capacity
to deliver great outcomes and
savings
Sian Lockwood OBE
What is Community Catalysts?
A social enterprise and Community Interest Company
established in 2010
Works to harness the talents and imaginations of people
and communities to provide high quality small scale local
care and support services
Aims to make sure that people wherever they live have a
real choice of great services and supports
Self directed support in Scotland
10 year strategy to grow self directed support published in
November 2010
Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Bill
introduced in February 2012
Vision for social care where support is based around the
citizen, not the service
Personal budgets and especially direct payments are just
one mechanism to enable self directed support
Learning from (the mistakes made) in England
Focus on personal budgets and direct payments as the
main mechanism to deliver self directed support
Most energy (and money) spent on getting the resource
allocation system (RAS) right
Little attention paid until recently to ensuring ‘market
diversity’
Targets for personal budgets has continued local
authority focus on systems for delivering budgets
The vision In England
Real choice and control for
people who need care and
support to enable them to
live real lives
The reality?
Micro providers
Are local people providing support and services to other
local people
Work on a very small scale (5 or fewer workers – paid or
unpaid)
Are independent of any larger organisation
Can be run by anyone including people who use services,
their families, community members, ex care workers
How do the providers work?
A range of business models: sole trader, partnership,
small business, social enterprise, charity or voluntary
organisation
Deliver on a continuum from fully voluntary at one end to
fully commercial at the other.
May employ a small number of staff. Most directly
deliver support themselves.
Full time or occasional - fitting in with other
employment, personal, caring responsibilities or study.
Established or new and emerging
May not fit within the regulatory framework for care
What types of services do they provide?
People buy support and services to help them to live
their lives - many micro enterprises deliver services that
fall outside health and social care such as:
Housing related support
Well being and health
Leisure and arts
Holidays and short breaks
Friendship or good neighbour
Drop in centres and lunch clubs
Advice and representation
Transport
What do micro providers offer people who need
support and services?
Personal and tailored
Co-produced
Flexible and responsive to change
Choice of services that help people to live their lives and
meet health and support needs
Help people to link to their community and build social
capital
Help people to make their money go further
Route into work and volunteering
Community Catalysts and micro providers
We have developed a way to
Find
Engage
Support
Connect
Local people already running something in their area or
those with a great new idea
We have worked with approx 28 councils and communities
across the UK to help them support micro providers in their
area
People and possibilities
Fife Shopping and Support Services
Formed by a group of staff who had previously worked in
council Home Care Services for many years
Support older and disabled residents across Fife
Provide help with daily tasks such as:
Shopping
Pension Collection
Prescription Collection
Gift Collection
Post Office Visits
Bill Payments
Housework
Is a non-profit making social enterprise organisation
Work in both urban and rural locations
Fife Shopping and Support Services
MyBus
A new organisation running for approx 2 years
Provide a range of affordable, reliable, accessible
transport services to groups and individuals unable to
access suitable public transport.
Have five minibuses ranging from 8 to 16 seats (plus
driver) all with access for people with mobility problems
Organise trips out to places of interest
Engaged in community projects
Recruit and train volunteers
Offer MiDAS training to local organisations
Believe that people come first, so build their service
around the needs of the people, and the group
Insight for Carers
Launched in July 2010 with a vision of creating a holistic
focal point for carers
Run by volunteers - primarily people with a learning
disability, older people and the unemployed
Hosts Carers Surgeries, coffee mornings, Councillors
surgeries, drop in sessions and an IT information hub
Now have approximately 100 customers per week
Many carers are also users of services and many are
elderly. They often feel that their voices are unheard
The cafe offers support, an informal social network, and
empowers volunteers to become less socially isolated
and gain valuable work experience
Insight for Carers
Pulp Friction CIC
Jill Carter runs the enterprise with her daughter Jessie,
who has learning disabilities
Jessie wanted to find work like her friends but Jill felt it
was unlikely that this would happen so the pair set up
Pulp Friction
Pulp Friction run cycle powered smoothie bar at
community events
Work with young adults with learning disabilities to
develop their social, independent and work readiness
skills
Quotes from Pulp Friction
“I’ve been with Pulp Friction for a year now and when I
first started I wanted to build my confidence skills up
more by serving the customers. I go to local places and
other locations too helping out with the pedal powered
smoothie bar”
“I liked doing Pulp Friction, it was good meeting new
people. It was helpful for me and I got a job”
“ I like doing Pulp Friction, I do cleaning and put the
rubbish in the bin. It has given me more confidence”
Funky Fitness and Fun
Set up by Carita who runs a drama group for people
with a disability locally and knew people were
looking for things to do with their friends.
Focuses on health and well being
Members decide the activities which include
aerobics, kickboxing, tai chi, street dancing, belly
dancing and visits from a nutritionist and dentist
One member Michael says ‘ ideas are not restricted
by management’ as in council services!!
Funky Fitness and Fun
Ace of Spades
New service idea from a couple who have a passion for
gardening and skills in delivering care services
Will offer older and disabled people including those with
dementia support to garden
Older people who used to love to care for their own
garden but can no longer do so
Carers wanting to maintain their garden, enable their
loved one to keep active and gain some free time
Residential care homes wanting to make better use of
garden maintenance budget whilst providing the people
who live in the home with a hobby and a real interest in
their surroundings
Saturday Night Social
Bob and Karen have enduring mental health issues and
run the Saturday Night Social enterprise
Operates at weekends and in the evening at a local
centre for people with enduring mental health issues
Bob and Karen realised that there were a number of
services and groups available on week days, but there
was nothing available at other times
Saturday Night Social offers people the opportunity to
socialise, feel included, and have a low cost home
cooked meal
The group is highly valued by the people who use it
The Adventure Service
Husband and wife partnership
Both have a background in social
care and education and a wealth
of experience in Person-Centred
Planning
Have a passion for outdoor
pursuits
Set up the Adventure Service to
enable young adults with
difficulties to achieve their
potential through the great
outdoors
Service offers something very
different and is well used
Final message!
“ If you do what you've always
done, you'll get what you've
always gotten”
Anthony Robbins
Questions
What more do you want to know about micro-enterprise?
Are there local/national priorities which micro-enterprise
could help to address?
What are the challenges and concerns about working
with micro-enterprise?
For further information
Contact
Sian Lockwood
[email protected]
www.communitycatalysts.co.uk
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