Direct payments webinar: 4 November 2024 Online 1230 - 1430
Links to available resources:
The full event recording can be viewed at https://vimeo.com/showcase/8600377/video/1026425185
The full slide deck can be accessed at https://www.wm-adass.org.uk/media/tgcdoqhs/wmadass-dpn-webinar-041124-master-f1.pdf
The blogpost It has to be in the care plan? by Iggy Patel of Halo Ablement Techniques is useful additional resource mentioned in the webinar.
The video case study about Grace, her family and her PA team (image below) can be found at this link
AGENDA
12:30 Welcome & introduction: Alistair Egginton (Coventry City Council) and David Drayton-Green (City of Wolverhampton Council) Co-Chairs – West Midlands ADASS Direct Payments Network
12:40 Reimagining Direct Payments: Supporting Glorious Ordinary Lives – Making it Real: Dr Clenton Farquharson CBE, Chair - TLAP programme board
13:00 Experiencing DPs I - VIDEO with the person drawing on support, informal carers and personal assistants: Grace Currie, Lorraine Currie, Netty Brook and Shannon Whitehouse
13:10 Experiencing DP’s II - practitioner perspectives: Paige Westwood and Penny Wilcox (Warwickshire CC)
13:25 Direct payments and pre-paid cards: Chris Roberts (Shropshire CC) and David Drayton-Green (City of Wolverhampton Council )
13:40 Monitoring and outcomes of direct payments – what works? Veronica Greenhouse (Hoople Group, Herefordshire)
13:55 Increasing the use of direct payments: Chris MacAdams (Birmingham City Council)
14:10 From the “chat” – panel discussion: Chat Manager – Jenny Swain (Warwickshire CC)
14:30 End of Webinar