Personalisation and end of life care - my mum's experience Martin Routledge

In Control, along with our partners and allies, strongly support the personalisation agenda. We are afraid though that unless all local delivery mirrors the best, a historic opportunity to make a big leap forward may be lost.

What can commissioners and providers do to make homecare support more personal for the people that use it? This was the question discussed in a meeting between myself and the management team of the United Kingdom Homecare Association about a year ago....

In Control has just sent through a submission to the pre-legislative scrutiny committee on the Care and Support Bill, being chaired by former minister Paul Burstow. (See below). This is our second submission - you wait for one submission and then two...

In September I blogged about the project In Control carried out in the north-west of England earlier this year -twenty nine ways of making personalisation real. I'm now going to add number thirty to the list, that is the pooling of personal budgets, ...

Sorry for a slightly self-indulgent and very long piece today but I hope I can be forgiven as it is my last week as manager of the Think Local Act Personal (TLAP) programme. If you had said to me in Jan 2002, when I joined the Valuing People Support ...

Next year marks the 10th anniversary of In Control. One of our first key messages was "the current system is broken". We argued for a new way of doing things and developed self-directed support (SDS) as a way of shifting power to people. Not only di...

It's been my honour to lead the Think Local Act Personal (TLAP) team and programme from set up through its first year and a half. We set up TLAP to continue to shine the light for personalisation in tough times, following the ending of the Putting Peo...

This blog post has been written by our associate Andrew Tyson. Andrew is a health and social care practitioner based in Brighton. He works as an independent facilitator, trainer, writer and speaker and is a registered social worker and accredited int...

This blog post has been written for us by Vidhya Alakeson, an associate of In Control. Vidhya Alakeson is the Director of Research and Strategy at the Resolution Foundation, an independent policy and research organisation. Vidhya also works part-time...