January 2012 Newsletter

Read Martin Routledge's latest blog post here.

Work has started on three projects with local authorities in the North West to enhance their capacity to deliver on the 'markers' proposed by Think Local, Act Personal (TLAP) in Making it Real: Marking progress towards personalised community-based ...

In Control's 14th workshop for children's services and organisations working with children and young people will be taking place on 6 and 7 March in Leeds.

Information on the latest webinars available.

John Waters held a webinar on 19 January to demonstrate how local authorities and other organisations can evaluate the impact of personal buddgets. A recording of the session is now available to view.

A recording of Caroline Tomlinson's webinar on Personalisation: Back to Basics is now available on our People Power member pages.

This two-day course will give family members an understanding of self-directed support and personal budgets and will help them to plan a better future for their family.

The first workshop for PCT clusters and local authorities will take place on 3 February 2012.

In Control's annual two-day leadership event for those working in adult social care was held on 11 and 12 January 2012. Presentations from the session are now available.

Partners in Policymaking graduates have created a short film highlighting their good news stories since taking part in the course. It's really inspiring stuff!

One of our Partners in Policymaking graduates has kindly agreed to share her daughter's creative support plan in the hope of inspiring others on what can be achieved.

Martin Routledge our head of operations, attended a policy dinner on personalisation last week hosted by Macmillan Cancer Support.

Martin Routledge from In Control and Think Local, Act Personal, co-hosted a live web chat with David Behan, Director General of Social Care for the Department of Health.