Service user and carer involvement

Social care is becoming more personalised.  Service users and carers are increasingly managing individual budgets, and there is an emphasis on services taking account of, and improving as a result of user feedback.  This has implications for social care training and learning, and makes the case for involving service users and carers in training and development. 

A Bucks based carer support group highlighted the following advantages of involvement:

Understanding how to get carers on board with care programmes/planning;  helping to reinforce and support key messages from professional carers; challenging care decisions constructively; bringing a different perspective to training and helping learners think about situations in different ways, and helping carers feel more fulfilled and validated, and most importantly IMPROVING CARE!

This section contains information and links to do with service user and carer involvement, primarily in social care education and training.  The menu bar on the left gives some options of different aspects of involvement. 

We will be adding a noticeboard facility to this section soon - this will enable site users to share and post information about local involvement projects and activities.

 

Page last edited: 17 July 2008