Useful links
Skills for Care
We always recommend that staff look at the Skills for Care website and their information hub for individual employers and personal assistants.
Think Local Act Personal
A national partnership of more than 50 organisations committed to transforming health and care through personalisation and community-based support. It includes central and local government, the NHS, providers, people with care and support needs, carers and families working in co-production.
If you go on their website and search 'Shropshire' you'll see blogs and articles about Shropshire Council staff and experts by experience.
The partnership also has good examples of planning the process (health and social care) through personalised support.
TLAP is committed to explaining the jargon used in health and social care. Their jargon buster is a directory of plain English definitions of commonly used words and phrases in health and social care, and can be downloaded from their website.
Social Care Institute for Excellence
Lots of articles about personalisation, best practice and direct payments. Please search for 'Direct payments' on the SCIE website.. There are a lovely couple of blogs from a Shropshire Council staff member who is a carer to her daughter, who has a direct payment.
HMRC
HMRC has an online tool to determine a worker’s employment status.
Support planning
- Ideal For All website
- Think Local Act Personal
- ADASS person-centred care and support planning
- Helen Sanderson Associates - excellent resource to support practitioners around person-centred support planning
In Control
A national charity working for an inclusive society where everyone has the support they need to live a good life and make a valued contribution.
Be Human
Linked to In Control, they have some excellent webinars about direct payments.
Carers
Mental health
Rethink website - direct payments
Other links
- Gov.UK - employment contracts and conditions
- Q&A for people receiving a personal budget or personal health budget
- Shropshire Choices direct payments – first point of contact email: firstpointofcontact@shropshire.gov.uk
- AGE UK – direct payments in social care
- Community care direct payments
- NHS personal budgets for social care
- Mind - mental health
- Disability Rights UK - personal budget specialist advice line for information about employing a personal care worker
- Training for practitioners
- Getting advice
- NHS - personal budgets
- Direct payments legislation
- HSE - direct payments
- Carers Trust for all Shropshire Carers Service: shropshire@carerstrust4all.org.uk (general enquiries) shropyc@carerstrust4all.org.uk (young carers)
- AGE UK – dementia services – enquiries@ageukstw.org.uk (email) www.ageukstw.org.uk (website)
- POhWER (guidance on options of DP and further advice) –pohwer@pohwer.net (email) www.pohwer.net (website)
- Visual Impairment and Blind Support – www.rnib.org.uk
- Sign Language Support – www.sense.org.uk
- Autism/Asperger Syndrome Support – www.autism.org.uk
- End of Life – www.agincare.com