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Your Service is no Longer Required?
Ian Lawrence
Learning and Development Manager for Professional and Service Teams
Adult and Children Services Workforce Development
Hertfordshire County Council
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Boundaries
• This is not a lecture and I will not be talking about:
• The Detail
• Contracts
• Commissioning
• Structures
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Boundaries
• I will be talking about the future based upon:
• Analysis
• Not a Critique of the journey so far
• Valuing what we have achieved
• Positive Intent
• A simple view
• My experiences
• This is not intended to be alarmist but to generate ideas!
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Principles
• Free Thinking
• Strengths and Opportunities
• Creative
• Optimistic balanced with Realism
• Outcome Focussed
• Recognises change is inevitable
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Business Diversification
• Always changing
• Responsive to market forces
• Customer Facing
• Generates Value
• Adaptive
• Experimental
• Sees opportunities within Crises
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• morleyarchives.org.uk
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• affiliatehub.co
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• travelpod.com
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• flickr.com
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• selectism.com
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The Welfare State is Changing!
• Reactive
• Problem Oriented (5 Evil Giants, Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, Idleness)
• Solved in the moment issues
• Generated a framework
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The Welfare State is Changing!
• Not excepted from change
• Constantly under reform
• Scope for Adaptation
• Now moving toward care consumerism and not Welfare responses to need.
• Cuts!!! Local Government is Shrinking!
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Current Terminology
• “It’s about people not policy”
• Valuing People
• Putting People First
• Personalisation
• Enablement
• Outcomes not Outputs
• What Works
• Localism
• All very positive terms
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Current Policy
• A vision for Adult Social Care (2010) the seven P’s:
• Personalisation
• Partnership
• Plurality
• Prevention
• Productivity
• Protection
• People
www.hertsdirect.org• <aref="http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/viewimage.php?image=5006&picture=chairlift">Chairlift</a> by Petr Kratochvil
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• <a href="http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=7354&picture=mountains-in-winter">Mountains In Winter</a> by Petr Kratochvil
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• <a href="http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=5018&picture=skiing-on-slope">Skiing On Slope</a> by Petr Kratochvil
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• <a href="http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=5000&picture=ski-poles-with-gloves">Ski Poles With Gloves</a> by Vera Kratochvil
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• http://www.maine-injury-lawyer.com/uploads/images/skiing-accidents.jpg
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• <a href="http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=5077&picture=ski-rescue">Ski Rescue</a> by Petr Kratochvil
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• <a href="http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=5001&picture=happy-skier">Happy Skier</a> by Petr Kratochvil
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• ultimate-ski.com
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• skirebel.com
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• ski-zermatt.com
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• holiday-rentals.co.uk
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• <a href="http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=5001&picture=happy-skier">Happy Skier</a> by Petr Kratochvil
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So – Why buy into change?
Demographics
Research and Policy
Our future
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Is this all about Money?
MAXIMISE
Choice and Independence Use of Resources
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The Future is about…..
• Providing individuals with the control, opportunity or means to be able to do something
• It is about making it possible or easier for individuals to do or take part in something
• Partnership and equal responsibility
The Future is about supporting people to make things possible
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What is Required?
• New Thinking• Entrepreneurialism• Flexibility• Attitude Change• Real Value• New Marketplaces• Experimentation• Courage• A creative workforce
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• http://www.maine-injury-lawyer.com/uploads/images/skiing-accidents.jpg
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• <a href="http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=5077&picture=ski-rescue">Ski Rescue</a> by Petr Kratochvil
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Exercise
• There are some innovative developments now; e-marketplaces, self-assessment, independent brokers.
• What ideas do you have to market your business or to develop new ways of providing care or services?
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Free Thinking
• Believe anything is possible!
• Capture all your creative ideas on the flip charts.
• You can decide later on if, when and how you might implement them.
• You will generate some ideas for the future!