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Users at the core
— [Honouring achievement in social care] |
| Author(s) | Peter Beresford, Rowenna Davis |
| Journal title | Community Care, issue 1718, 17 April 2008 |
| Pages | pp 14-16 |
| Source | http://www.communitycare.co.uk |
| Keywords | Social workers ; Coordination ; Interaction [welfare services] ; Consumer ; Participation ; Projects. |
| Annotation | This article introduces the start of the Excellence Network, Community Care's new honours programme which recognises innovative and impressive practice and shares it with the whole of social care. Peter Beresford describes the five key priority issues for involvement encapsulating the Excellence Network awards: involving everyone on equal terms; imaginative approaches encouraging everyone to engage; user-run services; securing empowerment for all by being value-based; and collaboration. Rowenna Davis examines the work of the five teams honoured in the User Involvement category. One, the Eden Alternative, run by Accord Housing Association in Telford and Birmingham, has created "elder centred communities" which aim to deviate from routine by introducing activities such as gardening and involvement with children and animals. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080428202 A |
| Classmark | QR: QAJ: QK6: WY: TMB: 3E * |
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