Innovation for Personalisation: A call for ideas (West Midlands)
“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
The event is your chance to:
• Meet key investors and commissioners working in this area and tell them about your work
• Learn about other innovation projects in this field
• Get the benefit of participants’ networks, expertise and advice
• Build the relationships that can help to develop and strengthen your work
So, if you have a fledgling proposal or an innovative project in this space, we want to hear from you, and the very best ideas will receive a Festival invitation. Let us know your solution to the challenge of personalising social care.
To respond to this Call for Ideas, simply fill in this short template presentation to explain your innovation. As an example, here is a completed template describing Festivals of Ideas. Please send your completed presentation in an email to Raj Cheema, including ‘Call for Ideas, 26th Nov 2009′ in the subject of the email. Please note that the submission deadline is Thursday, 5th November at 5.00pm.