“ I n April the North West London Mencap Consortium - in partnership with National Mencap - will be launching a new project led by Ealing Mencap. The project will be called 'Making The System Work For Me' and will check the quality of health and social care services in six North West London boroughs. With the introduction of personal budgets, the range of services that individuals can purchase with money from social services has increased, however not all of these are inspected. The Winterborne View scandal demonstrated that even CQC registered services can provide a poor quality service to the people who use them. In response to these concerns the government published a document called 'Caring for our future' which outlines key principles to ensure quality; these principles form the basis of the new quality checking project. Making The System Work For Me will employ people who use services to visit providers (and employers of Personal Assistants), speak to their customers and feed their findings back to the people responsible for running the service. They will also communicate findings to Healthwatch, CQC and local commissioners and publish information about their visit on a website. Ealing Mencap will get up to £230,125 in 2013/14 and additional funding over the following two years to develop new, innovative approaches to health and care, actively share excellent practice and improve integrated care and efficiency. Voluntary sector organisations submitted funding bids to the Department of Health setting out how they could help meet the Department's objectives of better health and well-being and better care for all and how their proposal has potential for national impact. Providers who have demonstrated that they provide high quality services will be awarded a Quality Mark and this will help to inform customers when they are choosing which service to purchase. Providers will also receive support to identify how they can improve their services. It is hoped that Local Authorities will sign up to the scheme following the six borough pilot and it will roll out nationally. The money comes from the Department’s Innovation, Excellence and Strategic Development (IESD) fund. The North West London Consortium is made up of Mencap groups from Brent, Barnet, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham and Harrow, as well as Equal People from Kensington and Chelsea. Newsletter Spring 2013 Enterprise Lodge: 020 8566 9575 DAB at Ealing Carers’ Centre: 020 8840 8573 www.ealingmencap.org.uk by Matthew Coulam Business Development Manager New funding paves way for new Consortium project Above: inside the newly opened butterfly house. Butterfly house reopened by Ealing Mencap and Green & Clean Ealing Mencap and Green & Clean have been asked by Brent Lodge Park Animal Centre to help run a butterfly house and to open and manage a new gift shop. Ealing Mencap RealMe trainees have been attending art sessions run by the Brent Lodge Park Art Collective to design banners and merchandise which will be sold in the shop. Trainees will also learn retail skills including till work, stock taking, meeting and greeting visitors and handling money. The butterfly house and gift shop will be open to visit from now until 9th September this year, between 11am and 4pm. The animal centre also houses birds, small mammals and invertebrates.
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“ I n April the North West London
Mencap Consortium - in
partnership with National
Mencap - will be launching a
new project led by Ealing Mencap. The
project will be called 'Making The
System Work For Me' and will check
the quality of health and social care
services in six North West London
boroughs.
With the introduction of personal
budgets, the range of services that
individuals can purchase with money
from social services has increased,
however not all of these are inspected.
The Winterborne View scandal
demonstrated that even CQC
registered services can provide a poor
quality service to the people who use
them. In response to these concerns
the government published a document
called 'Caring for our future' which
outlines key principles to ensure
quality; these principles form the basis
of the new quality checking project.
Making The System Work For Me
will employ people who use services to
visit providers (and employers of
Personal Assistants), speak to their
customers and feed their findings back
to the people responsible for running
the service.
They will also communicate
findings to Healthwatch, CQC and local
commissioners and publish
information about their visit on a
website.
Ealing Mencap will get up to
£230,125 in 2013/14 and additional
funding over the following two years to
develop new, innovative approaches to
health and care, actively share
excellent practice and improve
integrated care and efficiency.
Voluntary sector organisations
submitted funding bids to the
Department of Health setting out how
they could help meet the
Department's objectives of better
health and well-being and better care
for all and how their proposal has
potential for national impact.
Providers who have demonstrated
that they provide high quality services
will be awarded a Quality Mark and
this will help to inform customers
when they are choosing which service
to purchase. Providers will also receive
support to identify how they can
improve their services.
It is hoped that Local Authorities
will sign up to the scheme following
the six borough pilot and it will roll out
nationally.
The money comes from the
Department’s Innovation, Excellence
and Strategic Development (IESD)
fund.
The North West London Consortium
is made up of Mencap groups from
Brent, Barnet, Ealing, Hammersmith
and Fulham and Harrow, as well as
Equal People from Kensington and
Chelsea.
Newsletter Spring 2013
Enterprise Lodge: 020 8566 9575
DAB at Ealing Carers’ Centre: 020 8840 8573
www.ealingmencap.org.uk
by Matthew Coulam
Business Development Manager
New funding paves way for new
Consortium project
Above: inside the newly opened butterfly house.
Butterfly house reopened by
Ealing Mencap and Green & Clean
Ealing Mencap and Green & Clean
have been asked by Brent Lodge
Park Animal Centre to help run a
butterfly house and to open and
manage a new gift shop.
Ealing Mencap RealMe trainees
have been attending art sessions
run by the Brent Lodge Park Art
Collective to design banners and
merchandise which will be sold in
the shop. Trainees will also learn
retail skills including till work,
stock taking, meeting and greeting
visitors and handling money.
The butterfly house and gift
shop will be open to visit from now
until 9th September this year,
between 11am and 4pm. The
animal centre also houses birds,
small mammals and invertebrates.
“
In many ways, the most rewarding
thing about being an MP is getting to
meet the many, many remarkable
people who make our communities tick
through their (often unnoticed) hard
work and dedication. Having the
opportunity to commend them for their
work, and help, if possible, is a real
pleasure.
A few weeks ago, I met one of these
people and he made a real impression
on me.
Berge Kanikanian is a client of Ealing
Mencap and for some time now he has
been campaigning to raise awareness
of hate crime relating to people with
disabilities. He is especially keen to raise
awareness among young people by
visiting schools and local communities.
With Ealing Mencap’s help, this is a
project that is really going places. When
I visited, I was shown a film fronted by
Berge that is the centrepiece of the
campaign. Accompanied by a film
crew, Berge had travelled across Poland
and Germany to research the Aktion T4
programme - the name given after the
Second World War to the Nazis’
euthanasia programme targeted at
those they deemed, wrongly, to be
‘incurably sick’.
In his film, Berge wanted to make
the point that while the Nazi Holocaust
is most commonly associated with the
appalling slaughter of millions of Jews,
it was also about the indiscriminate
murder of men, women and children
with disabilities before, during and even
for a while after the War.
In addition to visiting the death
camps, Berge and his crew went to
meet local residents from the
surrounding areas, some of whom had
been children during the War. He asked
them about how they had felt and
continue to feel about the dreadful
events that had taken place in their
communities. They also met with one
of Mencap’s sister organisations in
Poland and discussed the work they do
to raise awareness of hate crimes
suffered by people with disabilities.
What was especially moving about
seeing the film when I did is that it was
only a matter of days after I had
marked Holocaust Memorial Day, along
with other elected representatives, and
spoken in Parliament in the debate to
commemorate the Day.
To my mind, the Holocaust stands
alone in its sheer horror as a direct
warning of the dangers of intolerance
and prejudice when coupled with
unchecked political power. Numerous
events since have, of course,
demonstrated that there are still
lessons that we can learn today by
reflecting on what took place under the
murderous Nazi regime as part of its
quest to ‘purify the race’.
Berge really made that point in his
film and talked movingly about the
lessons we can still learn when trying to
tackle bullying targeted at people with
disabilities today. It really was an
incredibly touching film and Berge
spoke to the camera with real
poignancy.
I am looking into how we can
promote his film more widely and have
spoken to a number of disability
interest groups in Parliament
already. Hopefully, by getting his film
shown as widely as possible around the
country, we can help Berge in his
campaign to guard against
discrimination – it is really important
work.
In the News: Angie Brey - Inspired by a local disabled campaigner Local MP wants to promote Berge’s film ‘as widely as possible’ after preview screening
taken from the. , 11th March 2013
Above: Berge (centre) with Angie Brey
MP and Conservative Councillor David
Millican at the recent preview screening
“ THE manager of a rock band has been praised
for inspiring people with learning difficulties to
reach for the stars and build their self-esteem.
Nick Radclyffe runs Ealing Mencap’s eight-
piece band, I Love Thunder, which not only
inspires and enthrals musicians aged 16 to 66,
but was one of 47 groups in the country to win a
£5,000 grant from the BBC Performing Arts Fund
last year to help it expand.
Nick, whose son Luke, 16, is the band’s
keyboard player, was nominated by Lesley
Dodd, chief executive of Ealing Mencap.
Lesley said: “Nick took over the band about
18 months ago and it has become more and
more professional, getting more gigs but more
importantly building up the self-esteem of its
players.
“I have watched the members grow as
people and they are absolutely brilliant.
Nick said he was stunned but delighted to be
nominated. He said he got roped into the band
after ‘ferrying Luke backwards and forwards’,
but discovered the benefits went beyond
playing music.
“They all love performing and the more they
do the better they become, but socialisation has
become a very important part of the week,” he
said.
“I Love Thunder provides a really important
focus for its members and has had many
benefits, including developing friendships
beyond the confines of the band.”
The BBC grant will help fund a series of
workshops to boost members’ music skills and
on-stage performance. The musicians also plan
to learn about guitar effects and technique,
song writing, stage craft and presence, vocal
training, and get some experience in a recording
studio.
In the News: Nick Radclyffe nominated for Pride in our People award taken from the. , , 15th February
Above: Nick has rocked his way to a Pride
in Our People awards nomination.
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Update from the Travel Training Team
Come and join in with some opportunities for fun, learning and making friends at our inclusive monthly
Saturday activity days.
April 27th - we’ll getting active with On Your Bike, trying out a range of two and three-wheeled bikes... And learning how to use the brakes!
May 25th - making music session with Joy of Sound, joining together with a range of musical instruments to make an amazing sound which everyone can be part of.
We are planning other dates for activities and outings… to find out more and book a place for your child, please ring Gabriel (07837 185 907) or Rosina (07970 637 432) and let us know about your child’s needs and preferences.
£3 per session, running between 11am and 4pm Enterprise Lodge, Stockdove Way, Greenford, UB6 8TJ
Above: Megan Howells (right) and Julie Mochan at a recent parents’
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