Innovation Exchange

“We need to work together with passion and commitment to help everyone lead fulfilling, independent lives. This is an important event for the JIP in helping us to find high-potential innovation projects that are making personalisation a reality”.
Eric Robinson, Lead on Personalisation, ADASS and Corporate Director of Social Care and Health, Staffordshire County Council

Personalisation depends upon our ability to innovate in social care – to develop new services, relationships and organisational approaches. Across the West Midlands, people in the public and third sectors are already using their passion and ingenuity to deliver personalisation. But no one person has all the answers and we can always do better.

Innovation Exchange is working with the West Midlands Joint Improvement Partnership to seek out and support some of the innovation projects that can help to drive further progress. We are staging a Festival of Ideas on Thursday 26th November, drawing together commissioners, investors and supporters around the best innovations in this field. You can view highlights from our last Festival of Ideas here. This event will look at innovations ranged across, but not limited to, the following themes:

• Support brokerage and advocacy
• Advice, information and guidance
• The potential of user-led and community-led approaches
• Safeguarding and risk-management
• The potential of new technology

If you are an innovator in the third sector and would like to attend this event to promote and develop your work and to connect with commissioners and investors in this field, please respond to our Call for Ideas.

If you are a commissioner of services in the public sector or work for a trust, foundation or another organisation looking to collaborate with innovators in this space please email us for a place at this event.