Jez Stannard, Programme Manager at the NTA talks about the Rehab Online project and how he feels it went. [vimeo 11833428]...(read more)

We've had some feedback that some visitors to the Rehab Online site would find it helpful to be able to search using "dual diagnosis" as a criterion in the advanced search. In terms of the numbers of projects that do this, these are the numbers: Total no of projects: 123 Projects that accept dual diagnosis: 94 Projects that do not accept du...(read more)

Rehab Online has now been live for a month, and seems to be getting quite good traffic, as well as some really good feedback. I am looking at some more tweaks to the search, to make it easier to use, and I'd appreciate some feedback from you. We've made a couple of changes to the current advanced search page: (read more)

Social Services Research Group Scotland held an event in June at CoSLA HQ in Edinburgh - 'Person-Centred Care: the effective use and dissemination of Knowledge' (you can see the flyer here. I was at the event, which provided an interested range of underpinning r...(read more)

This morning I was at a workshop at Suffolk Family Carers in Claydon, which looked at Self Directed Support and Direct Payments. Chris Pyburn and David Pintilie from Suffolk Adult and Community Directorate led the workshop, which included an overview from David on the policy background, and also a look at the latest Needs Assessment Questionnaire. ...(read more)

I was in Suffolk last week at a meeting of their SDS Implementation Network. Chris Pyburn, whom we're working with on the Suffolk Stakeholder Engagement project, had set up in the corner a board game produced by In Control. 'My Life, My Budget', is, according to In Control, 'a fun and interactive, cool and colourful board game for people with learn...(read more)