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Help us take a sector selfie!
There's been a lot of change in our sector over the last few years. Supporting People funding has been withdrawn or refocused in many places. Government is putting a greater emphasis on the importance of preventative services in improving health. New varieties of service have grown up around sheltered housing.
We need your help to get a national ‘sector selfie’ of sheltered and supported housing for older people. How well are we coping with the changes? Are cuts killing services – or driving efficiency? Are older people benefiting or struggling to get support? Please follow this link to complete the erosh sector selfie. It’s a short online survey that’ll take you about 5 minutes. It’s your chance to tell us what’s happening to your services and get your views heard by policymakers and politicians.
And please don’t stop there. Forward the link to colleagues in other organisations. We want as many providers to complete it as possible - whether erosh members or not. This will help erosh represent the views of our members and the sector, informing our priorities and lobbying. The survey will close on Friday 31 October – so don’t delay!
2015 Erosh Awards: Dates Announced
Next year’s annual awards ceremony will take place on the afternoon of Monday 23rd March 2015 at The Mercers’ Company in central London. The awards will soon be open for entries, so start thinking about your organisation’s entry for this year now so you get it submitted before Christmas!
Important dates:
- The awards will be formally launched and opened for entries early in November 2014.
- The deadline for entries is 5pm 16th January 2015.
- The finalists will be announced and notified early February 2015.
- Winners announced and awarded their prizes at the prestigious awards event at Mercers’ Hall in central London on the afternoon of Monday 23rd March 2015.
Examples of areas entries work could cover include:
- Intergenerational activities
- Digital inclusion
- Partnership working
- Community engagement
- Staff development & training
- Building development & re-modelling
- Achieving value for money
- Customer involvement
We are particularly looking for entries which are innovative, inclusive in the widest sense and sustainable.
Watch this space for details of prizes and how to submit your entry..
There will also be a small exhibition in the refreshments area at the awards ceremony. Exhibition stand space is available at a rate of £300. If your organisation is interested in any of the above sponsorship or promotional opportunities, please email Alison Braithwaite.
Coming soon: New Service Impact Template tool from erosh
Do you:
- Need to persuade commissioners of the value of your services?
- Want to demonstrate to health and social services how you contribute to their targets and objectives?
- Need an easier way to record and record evidence of what you achieve?
- Need to work out how you save money for health and social services?
If you answered yes to any or all of the above, you need our new Service Impact Template which will provide service managers and frontline staff with a quick, easy-to-use framework for recording the evidence needed to demonstrate the value of your services to local authorities, statutory services, and other key stakeholders.
We all know the valuable contribution housing/related support for older people makes to the achievement of NHS, adult social care and public health outcomes as well as to cost savings. The challenge is demonstrating this.
Our Service Impact Template will be launched early in 2015 and will be available to both erosh members (50% discount) and non-members. To register your interest and find out more contact Rebecca Mollart, Chief Executive, erosh.
New Good Practice Case Studies now available on the erosh website
Check out 2 new Good Practice case studies on the erosh website from our 2014 1st and 2nd place award winners:
Riverside ECHG - Tenant Safeguarding Awareness Training
This initiative arose from an investigation in 2011/12 into safeguarding cases in the sheltered service. It became apparent that tenants had a lack of knowledge of adult safeguarding. Throughout the schemes, there are leaflets/posters providing information on how to report abuse but, although tenants knew how to report abuse, they were not always aware of the 'triggers' or 'types' of abuse and how perpetrators 'groom' victims. This gave rise to the development of a 'Tenant Safeguarding Awareness Programme' project group involving tenants and staff which considered how tenants’ awareness could be raised to reduce incidences of abuse.
RCT Homes – Summerdale Scrum
This is a sporting reminiscence project (with Beth Johnson Foundation and RSVP) aimed at enhancing the social lives of older people at Summerdale Close,Tonteg. It improves quality of life for older people using sporting memories and heritage and breaks down barriers between old and young.
Erosh with CIH Cymru & Sitra - new partnerships
Older People’s Housing 2014 - 1 day conference with CIH Cymru – 4/12/14, Cardiff
Older people's housing, in partnership with CIH Cymru, is a brand new conference for 2014. This event will bring together frontline staff and managers working across housing services for older people. The programme, developed with CIH Cymru and colleagues from the Erosh South Wales network, will maximise workshop time to focus on sharing new/good practice, change management success stories and professional development. You will also learn about community and collaborative partnerships, emerging technologies and new initiatives from across the UK.
For more information and how to book click here. Erosh members benefit from the discounted rate.
Building Bridges: New, emerging and changing job roles in Adult Social Care within the Extra Care Housing Sector - ½ day workshop with Sitra – 5 November 2014, Taunton; 18 November, Cambridge.
Sitra was commissioned by Skills for Care (the employer-led workforce development body for adult social care in England) to explore existing, emerging and new roles that bring together housing and social care. Sitra explored how roles are changing and where the bringing together of housing and care responsibilities in supported accommodation and floating support services is resulting in new roles. It also explored what this workforce looks like now, how it is changing, and what the workforce of the future will need to know. At this workshop, Sitra will share its findings and recommendations from the report.
These free briefing events are free of charge and normally for Sitra members. However, erosh is working closely with Sitra, drawing on respective expertise and specialisms, to develop services which benefit members of both organisations. We are delighted therefore that erosh members are invited to these free briefing events as a precursor to announcing later in the year our combined offer to members of both organisations.
For more information and how to book click here.
Erosh Regional Network Meetings:
South West Date Announced
The next South West network meeting is being held in Knightstone Housing Association's office,Weston Gateway Business Park, Weston super Mare BS24 7JP on Wed 8th Oct 10.30 - 12.30 followed by a buffet lunch. We have a speaker from the Dementia Action Alliance, and hope to have speakers from health services about working with housing providers & from the Bristol Aging Better programme. Email loisnicks@blueyonder.co.uk to reserve a place. Non-members welcome to come along as a taster!
Midlands Network Meeting
The next Midlands network meeting is being held at Waterloo HA’s Brunswick House, Marston Green, Solihull at the end of October/beginning of November (to be confirmed) 12.45 – 4.00pm starting with a buffet lunch. Jean McCarthy, Age UK Herefordshire and Worcestershire will be talking about their Home from Hospital service. Email r.mollart@tiscali.co.uk to reserve a place. Non-members welcome to come along as a taster!
If you have an event that you would like to add to the erosh What’s On calendar on the website, email us the details.
Erosh Members Policy Briefing - Care Act 2014 Briefing & Consultation
Erosh CEO Rebecca Mollart recently responded to the consultation on the Care Act and her response is now available to members on the erosh website. This briefing explains the background to the Act and its links with the Better Care Fund; helps you navigate round the different parts of the Act; comments on the provisions from the perspective of erosh and its members; outlines the consultation process and timetable; and provides handy links to further information. Download briefing
You can also read erosh’s own response to the consultation here.
Silver Sunday October 5th – What do you have planned?
Visit the erosh FaceBook page and tell us (and other members) what you have planned for Silver Sunday coming up on October 5th - an annual day of fun and free activities for older people across the UK. Supported by The Sir Simon Milton Foundation it celebrates the value and knowledge they contribute to our communities while combating loneliness and isolation. We want Silver Sunday to reach as far and wide as possible so if you have an idea for an event – get involved! Take a look here to find out more http://silversunday.org.uk/get-involved/ or get in touch via info@silversunday.org.uk
Erosh Letter of Concern about The Archers on Radio 4
Fan of The Archers on Radio 4? We were disappointed that a recent episode used the term ‘warden controlled flat’ in the Heather Pritchard storyline. We feel it's an old fashioned, negative and inaccurate label for what is more appropriately referred to as sheltered or retirement housing. The best sheltered housing schemes are lively and vibrant communities and the idea that they are ‘controlled’ by a ‘warden’ is misleading. What do you think? We have sent a letter to the makers of the show ...read the full letter here.
CIH Delivering Housing Solutions for Older People Conference & Exhibition
It was great to meet so many of you at the CIH conference earlier this month. We hope you found the seminar run by Imogen Parry of erosh on Adult Safeguarding interesting and useful. We’d love to hear your feedback. Just shoot us a quick email. Don’t forget to read our good practice guidance on Adult Safeguarding available on the erosh website.
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