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Shared Lives: the connection test Alex Fox, CEO Shared Lives Plus www.SharedLivesPlus.org.uk http://alexfoxblog.wordpress.com http://vimeo.com/108993357 Kent Shared Lives Karl and Clare with Shared Lives carers Blossom and Mike, at their

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Shared Lives: the connection test

Alex Fox, CEO Shared Lives Plus

www.SharedLivesPlus.org.uk

http://alexfoxblog.wordpress.com http://vimeo.com/108993357

Karl and Clare with Shared Lives carers Blossom and Mike, at their wedding, before moving to live independently Kent Shared Lives

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What Shared Lives means to me

From Shared Lives South West http://sharedlivessw.org.uk

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  • Achieves great outcomes like

(lots of!) new friends.

  • Government inspectors say

Shared Lives is consistently better and safer.

  • £26,000 a year lower cost per

person.

Safer, better, lower cost

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  • The Shared Lives carer’s house feels

like a family home.

  • Participants share home and family

life, either living together or through the adult visiting their Shared Lives carer regularly.

  • Organised by 150 registered local

schemes who recruit, train, support and monitor Shared Lives carers. “You see people grow - they blossom.”

Sharing home and family life.

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The Shared Lives carer role Personal & unpaid

  • Sharing home
  • Sharing family life
  • Family & friends help
  • Visible & valued
  • Build informal networks
  • Holidays together
  • Professional personal care
  • Max 3 individuals
  • Self-employed: no ‘staff’
  • Trained & paid (not p. hr)
  • Can use ‘support carers’
  • 4 weeks paid breaks p.a.

Professional, paid.

Shared Lives

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Shared Lives relationships

Shared Lives carer Shared Lives agency

Care manager Advocate Local council

  • r NHS

Shared Lives Plus

Government inspectors

Families

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Shared Lives carer assessment and approval

Shared Lives Haringey

  • Rigorous 3-6 month

assessment and approval process.

  • Looks for skills, values,

attitudes and knowledge.

  • Considers housing and

rest of household.

Initial meeting Application & interview ID & DBS, references Training pre & post approval Approval process Approval panel

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Shared Lives carer My family Shared Lives matching Shared Lives carer family Me

  • Matching takes time, but

pays huge dividends.

  • Short breaks can be part of

matching. “It’s like extending your own family.”

Paper matching Involve family Meeting Activities Overnight, Weekend Trial period

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Shared Lives consistently outperforms all other regulated care.

Inspection results 2015

The number of scheme staff stayed static this year (8% increase last year). Increase workloads and turnover pose a risk to continued high safety and quality.

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Shared Lives: outcomes

‘Firsts’ for 500 individuals using Shared Lives:

  • 35% learned a household task
  • First ever holiday: 30% (UK) 16% (abroad)
  • First boyfriend/girlfriend: 12%
  • 26% joined a club not

exclusively for disabled people.

  • Almost all made friends.
  • 34% of service users had

made five or more new friends. Our outcome measuring tool has been piloted for launch soon.

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Shared Lives carer John

Shared Lives scheme

How the funding flows

£ £ £ £

Local Council

  • r NHS

£ Housing benefit £ Disability benefits £

John 1 coordinator to 25 supported individuals (live-in). Payment for care includes 4 weeks’ paid breaks p.a.

1

2? 3? Staff team &

  • ffice

Recruiting, training, supporting Shared Lives carers.

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Shared Lives growth in England

In England in 2014-15 11,570 people were being supported in arrangements, an increase of 2450 (27%) in two years.

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Regional variation

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A number of approaches are arranged around informal networks & fostering social action:

  • Shared Lives
  • Homeshare
  • Local Area Coordination
  • Circles of Support
  • Micro-enterprise development
  • KeyRing networks

Could we challenge all interventions to connect people?

The connection test

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Alex Fox, CEO, Shared Lives Plus, alex@SharedLivesPlus.org.uk

www.SharedLivesPlus.org.uk 07738641897 http://alexfoxblog.wordpress.com Twitter: @alexsharedlives

  • The new social care, Royal Society of Arts, 2013: http://goo.gl/6NPnP;
  • Can we have a People Powered NHS? RSA, 2014: http://bit.ly/1psacBe;
  • Our 3 minute film: http://vimeo.com/108993357

Contact details

West Wales Adult Placement