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Shared Lives Plus is the UK network for family-based and small-scale ways of supporting adults. Our members are Shared Lives carers and workers, Homeshare programmes and micro-enterprises.
Shared Lives is UK wide and used by 15,000 people. The micro-enterprise sector is much less well established.
Shared Lives Plus was established in 1992 and has 4,500 members UK-wide.
Community Catalysts: our sister Community Interest Company, helping councils create micro-enterprise friendly areas.
What of the intended culture change: individuals in control of their services and their lives, living in and contributing to their chosen relationships, families and communities?• Only partially facilitated by the mechanism change of
personal budgets and Direct Payments.• For some people, life has been transformed out of all
recognition, often via PAs (new market of provision). • But for some, the changes represent more hassle, risk and
red tape, without real increase in choice (no new providers).• We need an increasing focus on relationships, community
• Near eradication of long term, institutional care for disabled people (but older people’s residential care market growing);
• Principles of choice, control and independence for all service users firmly embedded in sector’s values;
• The rise of user-led or user-owned organisations• People involved in decision-making at every level;• Increasing satisfaction of the majority of users and families;• Some examples of a more plural and creative market;• Some community development & asset-based approaches;• little evidence of increasing fraud or inappropriate spending.
• Focus on supply as well as demand – market build• E.g. develop and ‘scale out’ micro-enterprises• Local people working with/ for other local people• May be led/ owned by service users/ families.
• Co-production is often influencing someone else’ service – increasing numbers of people want (shared) ownership and responsibility for making a contribution.
• Not just User-Led Organisations (ULOs) but citizen-delivered services and interventionso CHANGE’s job-share model, working with parents with learning
disabilities.o Co-op and mutually owned models of service delivery.
• Service user, family and citizen led commissioning.o Stamford Forum/ Leeds Council neighbourhood network model.o Local Area Coordination (LAC) and other Asset Based Community