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CDS developing in Wales – Progress so far. Rick Wilson 29 th April 2010 www.wacds.org.uk. Overview. Launch – 29 th June 2010 Gaining Assembly Approval Developing Practice Growing and sharing the movement Building the formal Alliance Development of tools. Work to Launch our Alliance.
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CDS developing in Wales – Progress so far. Rick Wilson 29th April 2010 www.wacds.org.uk
Overview • Launch – 29th June 2010 • Gaining Assembly Approval • Developing Practice • Growing and sharing the movement • Building the formal Alliance • Development of tools
Work to Launch our Alliance • We are launching our Alliance on the 29th June atHope Church Newtown. • The Week before the National Social Services Conference • Gwenda Thomas can’t attend, so we are inviting a Senior Policy Official. • The event will be aimed at bring us as an Alliance together • Partner LA’s • Partner Providers • Already involved citizens. • We are going to pitch the event so that it brings together about 120 people.
Work to Launch our Alliance Aims of the event • To bring together potential members and other interested individuals and groups to celebrate the launch of Wales Alliance for CDS in Wales. • To enable participants to hear about the different components of s CDS models in Wales. • To enable participants to meet people involved in the CDS demonstration projects around Wales. • To get agreement from CDS potential members to the proposed WACDS constitution and to formally recognise them as members of the Alliance. • To formally elect a ‘Council’ for the Alliance in line with the agreed Constitution.
Organising the launch • Launch event organisation:The Seren led Publicity team send out weekly email based publicity over the remaining 9 weeks before the event. • Builds interest in 4 questions: • Do you agree with the principles of CDS? • Do you wish to sign up as part of the alliance? • Do you want come to the launch? • Have you got stories about individuals, groups or agencies changing their lives or work in line with the principles of CDS? • The Membership Promotion Team made up of Network Chairs who work with their memberships to get concrete sign ups, potential launch attendee's and a growing catalogue of change stories that can be used to promote media interest. • Mencap Cymru will work with the network to generate a logo and branding. • The Event Convening will come from Cymorth Cymru, we are being asked to make a contribution to this.
Organising the launch Media awareness and interest • Swansea are working to develop an interest with the media in this developing Citizen Directed Support movement. • They are building a media pack based on background story currently being written. • This story will be augmented by the growing individual stories generated by the Launch Event process. • All of this work can be contributed to through our wiki-site http://welshcitizensupport.wikispaces.com/Launch+Event+Development
Gaining Assembly Approval for CDS Work is ongoing • Discussion is taking place between ADSS and AWASH with the Assembly, it appears positive. • Third sector Cymorth and WCVA are also making representations and are meeting with the Minister in early June. • The Independent Commission on Social Services in Wales that will report in November is also considering issues related to personalisation.
Developing Practice There is a growing range of practice experiments across Wales • Work taking place in 11 local authorities • Wrexham, individual budgets, ‘re-enablement’, • Swansea, whole authority, outcome focused, community development. • Provider led practice experiments • Reach Cardiff – disaggregation of budgets • Cymryd Rhan – community development • Dimensions – citizen led pre-employment course. • Citizen organised experiments • Change one thing – experiment in action research within a day centre. These need to be publicised and shared
Growing and Sharing the Movement • By the launch we want: • 11Local Authorities, • 50 organisations or community groups, • and 100 Citizens. To be willing to be part of our Alliance. • The sign up process is a simple way for us to encourage people to share stories and get involved. • This will be a person to person thing.
Building the formal Alliance • We will need to develop a constitution for the Alliance • It will probably make some conditions on individuals and agency members • They sign up to principles and express willingness to contribute. • It will probably have a council and feel like a mutual • Proportion of statutory & government agencies • Proportion of providers and community groups • Proportion of citizens
Tools and identity • SSIA is building an evaluation tool • Mencap Cymru is working collaboratively on brandinghttp://welshcitizensupport.wikispaces.com/Branding • Current frontrunner