The Big Connect: A #SocialCareFuture Event
Our supportive and lively event will include stories, art, music, drama and workshops to show how innovative codesigned social care and inclusive local communities are intrinsically linked to our vision for #SocialCareFuture. Split over 2 floors, the event will have a mixture of talks, workshops and creative activities all designed to bring people together to connect over their experiences.
Activities will include:
Together, we will challenge traditional views of people who are supported in our communities. People are not passive recipients of social care. This event will demonstrate that we are all strong community contributors and leaders.
Find out how you can get involved, contribute and start taking action to help people live the lives they choose. Connected, we are building our Social Care Future.
If you are a person who
come and listen to some inspirational social care stories and share your thoughts and energy.
It’s all about a different story for people, community, and our future social care.
10.00 am: Registration
10.30am – 3.30pm: The Big Connect
activities including
Print Making, Jewellery Making, Sewing, Connective Words, World Music and much more
10.30 am: Welcome and what to expect from the day
11.15 am: Workshops and Stories
12.15 pm: Lunch
1.00 pm: Workshops and Stories
2.00 pm: Workshops and Stories
3.00 pm: Next Steps
4.00 pm: Close
Many social care providers are “more than a provider” – working alongside people who draw on support to have control over their lives, live in their own homes and have positive relationships, purpose and meaning in their local communities.
To make this happen some providers have become community connectors, empowering, enabling and resourcing people with disabilities to become positive and dynamic community contributors, shapers and leaders.
Present sector pressures, focused on funding and recruitment, mean these important stories and developments are not heard or understood, when in fact they represent a crucial part of the future of social care.
To bring about change a small number of not-for-profit providers came together, under the banner of “More Than a Provider” to ensure these stories have a voice, and to demonstrate the importance, not just to the individuals, but to the fabric of our communities and social care.
In partnership with (and contributing to) the Social Care Future movement, the passion to have a different social care conversation is underway with the Providers sponsoring a series of regional events with people who draw on support, community groups, commissioners, and more providers coming together to share and promote more individual and community-based stories of social care.
Our next step is to encourage more people, groups and organisations to become involved and contribute to this journey – and to continue to press for an alternative social care conversation. Building on the Social Care Future success of bringing commissioners together in a regular community of practice, we now want to develop a similar model of shared practice for providers and community groups across sectors. Come and help us build this new supportive and innovative community of practice.
Our events are not old school conferences – they are building new relationships and hearing from innovative people, community-based projects and partnerships. They are challenging traditional social care boundaries and established views.
