062 - How to deliver self directed support in supported living with Chris Watson

In this episode Chris Watson talks about using the voice of the person being supported to develop self directed support enabling support to be delivered in innovative and creative ways. He gives some great examples of how this has been implemented in practice. Chris Watson is the founder of Self Directed Futures and has over 24 years’ experience working across the public and voluntary sector in the fields of health and social care, commissioning, housing and community development. He is passionate about self-directed support and finding ways to make commissioning systems more personalised to support this. Chris has led on the implementation of Individual Service funds and, the NHS equivalent, Third Party Personal Health budgets with local authorities and clinical commissioning groups across England. This work has included supporting the availability of ISFs within a number of settings including: · Homecare · Supported Living · Micro Providers · Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise organisations · Independent broker organisations He is presently a Fellow at the Centre for Welfare Reform and a Fellow at the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. 

Resources: 

Care Act guidance: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/care-act-statutory-guidance/care-and-support-statutory-guidance https://www.thinklocalactpersonal.org.uk/personalised-care-and-support-planning-tool/ 

You can contact Chris via Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-watson-10268a22/ 

Or via his website: https://www.selfdirectedfutures.co.uk/ 

Lisa Brown became a property investor after a long nursing career. She initially developed heritage properties and then a chance encounter led her to discover supported living. She realized this was a powerful way to invest in property while creating homes for people with a support need.

Lisa set about discovering why property investors struggle to let their properties to supported living providers and why providers struggle to find property to let. She has been educating people, raising awareness and working on solutions to this problem ever since. Lisa is the host of the Supported Living Property Podcast and YouTube channel and formed The Supported Living Property Facebook Group. 

 

Lisa is founder of The Supported Living Property Network, a place for property investors and supported living providers to connect, build relationships and communicate about property they have available and/or need. Membership includes access to training courses, monthly training events and networking events and access to The Supported Living Property Network Conference.

To find out how you can join The Supported Living Property Network please follow this link: ⁠https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/the-supported-living-property-network⁠

Lisa has written a free guide for you:

If you are a property investor download this free guide to help you find providers to lease your property: ⁠https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/free-guide-for-property-investors⁠

 

If you are a provider who is looking for property to lease then download this free guide to help you find property: ⁠https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/free-guide-for-providers⁠ 

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