The 12 Days of Self Directed Support
For Christmas 2023, we are sharing our #12DaysOfSelfDirectedSupport with twelve top tips for Self Directing your Social Care and Health support. You can reference this as a complete tool kit for Self Directing your own support or you can select the sections which apply to your own personal circumstances. Day 1: Your Rights For people […]
Support Brokerage and Self-funders
Support for self-funders in managing and arranging their social care There was a Government announcement in Sept 2021, with the intention of strengthening and enacting section 18 (3) of Care Act, which meant that anyone self-funding their social care could have access to local authority assessment and arranging their support (including residential care). This would […]
Small Supports programme- a Strengths-based approach to providing support
We talk about being person-centred in social care, but what does this mean in the context of supporting people with learning disabilities or autistic people to leave a long-stay hospital or assessment and treatment unit? When we talk to leaders in adult social care they openly admit “we can do better for people” with regards […]
How can Support Brokerage enhance the lives of people with life-limiting illness and their families?
People with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions face many barriers in accessing the right support to get the best quality of life and to achieve the outcomes that matter most to them. This is the case not just for health and hospice care — including the delays in referral to hospices and palliative care services and […]
When professionalism is disrupted by personalisation
Meet Angie- an OT with a passion for Person Centred approaches! Meet Angie….she’s been an Occupational Therapist (OT) for 30 years, working in NHS and (more recently), independent OT roles to support people with developing and maintaining their independence and well-being. The introduction of Personalisation within the Health and Social Care sector made absolute sense […]
Deaf Awareness Week 2021
In acknowledgement of Deaf Awareness Week 2021; we wanted to share the story of a lady called Emma who is registered as Deaf, that we’ve worked alongside to provide Support Brokerage with. How we work with Emma Emma is registered as Deaf; and she uses British Sign Language and an Alternative & Augmentative Communication (AAC) […]
Care Act 2014: Knowing and understanding your rights
Do you know what your rights are under Care Act 2014? In the practice of Independent Support Brokerage we often have conversations with people who are accessing social care support for the first time and discover that they don’t have any awareness of their rights under the Care Act. This can make the whole process […]