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The weekly blog will be a regular feature of the new website along with the latest news, updates and downloadable materials to support teaching and learning.
Choosing the subject matter for the very first blog was a serious matter and needed some consideration. So much is happening at the moment: personalisation, new qualifications, new funding, new initiatives, new attitudes, new ways of working… need I go on?
Everything seems ‘new’ at the moment, but little of it is really ‘new’. Yes - developments in technology, telehealth and telecare are truly new, exciting and hold such potential for changing lives. These are the areas of development that will mean the most for people’s day to day lives. The advances here will have a far greater impact on people’s day to day lives than if they have an individual budget and get to choose a service provider.
But in terms of everyday practice;– putting people first or working in a team around a child is what good practitioners have always done – it’s just taken until now for the systems and bureaucracy to catch up!
It will come as little surprise to most of us that, yet again, the National Audit Office has spent untold sums to discover what any us working in the field could have told them in 5 minutes; the National Dementia Strategy isn’t working.
The reasons for this are clear; - it isn’t a strategy – it was an announcement and a wish list. There are numerous definitions for the word ‘strategy’ – but all of them include words like ‘plan’ and ‘objectives’ and ‘achievement’.
In order for a strategy to succeed it has to have: - a series of clearly defined objectives and a set of criteria we can use to judge when those objectives have been met. Most importantly, though, it has to have a clear ‘instruction manual’ that includes:
Until government starts to produce ‘strategies’ that are real and not simply ‘initiatives’ dressed up; the people in most need and least able to fight back, will continue to be short changed and offered words and fancy documents in place of planned, measurable and accountable changes.
