Putting People First
Leading The Way in Supporting Personalisation
The ‘Our Health, Our Care, Our Say’ white paper confirmed that people want support when they need it, easily, and in a way that fits into their lives. This means that every person who receives support will have much more influence over the services they receive in all care settings. The concept of personal budgets gives those receiving care or support a full understanding of the finance that is available to them and influence over how the money is spent.
The task of local authorities is to create an environment where choice is available, where investment is in preventive options that maintain people’s independence, and where there are sustainable support systems. Social workers will need to facilitate peoples choice, rather than provide professionally led assessment and care planning.
OLM Systems welcomes the Putting People First agenda in social care and the quality improvement we believe this will bring to individual's lives. Being a part of a larger group of companies each with distinct capabilities that can help deliver the personalisation agenda puts us in a unique position.
Our progress on Putting People First to date includes:
- Being commissioned by ADASS, in partnership with Symmetric to establish Common Resource Allocation Systems (RAS)
- Being appointed by the Joint Improvement Partnership for London, in partnership with Symmetric, to provide support to all Councils in London developing (RAS)
- Creation of a hosted citizen facing Putting People First solution, that has been developed in partnership with 6 leading local authorities
- Development of a dedicated consulting team of Putting People First experts