Vulnerable Adults’ Providers Network

Holly NeillNottingham CVS

• Vulnerable Adults’ Providers Network (VAPN)

• Looking After Each Other programme

• A network for voluntary and community sector organisations that work with vulnerable adults

• To help network members to better support the vulnerable adults they work with and improve their services

• Connect groups to each other and to commissioners

What is the VAPN?

• Identify training and development needs• Ensure members are connected to local

commissioning opportunities, consultations and events

• Encourage joint working and consortia for tenders• Helping to make groups ready to tender for

contracts• Letting groups know about funding• Information sharing

What is the VAPN?

• The VAPN is connected to other networks and forums in the city and this provides another opportunity to share information and keep everyone updated

• Information from these other networks can then be distributed amongst members

Connections

• Age Friendly Nottingham• Children and Vulnerable Adult Workforce

Strategy Group• SPLAT – Learning Disability and Autism

Partnership Board• Dual Diagnosis Forum• HWB3• Mental Heath and Employment Network• Voluntary Homelessness Forum

Connections

• Meetings are held every 2 months and will usually focus on a different theme.

• Network members can attend all the meetings or choose ones they want to attend

• Meetings will be about sharing information, connecting to other voluntary sector colleagues and groups, and the commissioning process

Meetings

• Meetings will be about sharing information, connecting to other voluntary sector colleagues and groups, and the commissioning process

• In between meetings e-newsletters are sent out with updates on commissioning and funding opportunities, training, events, consultations, new services etc

Information sharing

• Enabling and equipping citizens and communities

to do more to support themselves and each

other

What is LAEO all about?

• LAEO came about in response to the Vulnerable Adults Plan 2012 –

2015.

• The 2nd strand is to • ‘Focus on building community

capacity, personalisation and citizen choice’

What is LAEO all about?

Focus • Current phase - Vulnerable Adults –people

with disabilities, people with poor mental health, older people

• Planned next phase – Vulnerable Families and Children

Outcomes• Increase of social action and engaged

communities

• Reduced loneliness and social isolation

• Fewer Children in Care System

Focus and outcomes

• Jointly led by the Nottingham City Council, NHS Nottingham City Clinical Commissioning Group and Nottingham CVS

• LAEO programme launched late March 2014 – attended by 200 people representing:

• Partners • Providers• Citizens • Voluntary Groups • Business

• 160 individual LAEO pledges• But this is only the tip of the iceberg – everyone

needs to be involved to ensure LAEO is a success

Who’s involved?

• 1000+ ideas generated at launch - and existing LAEO type support across the city mapped

• Supported by funding from HWBB, NCC have used these ideas (and information on gaps) to shape a set of six initial pilot projects

• As a basket of ideas should help people and communities to overcome problems before they become serious, and to reduce isolation

• Communications and engagement strategy in place to support these and LAEO as a whole

What’s happening?

•‘Get to know your neighbour’ - postcard campaign to encourage people to get to know their neighbours better and ‘make time for tea’.•Befriending schemes – befriending adults with learning or physical disabilities, or mental health issues•Timebank – way of sharing skills in the local community•Community Navigators - local volunteers who will help vulnerable people find their way to local activities or services •Better connecting need to support - helping frontline staff identify and support isolated people as early as possible•Rallyround - a simple website service that enables chores for vulnerable people to be shared by families, friends, volunteers and professionals

Six Pilot Projects

• So far 3 consultations have been held at NCVS to get the voluntary sector involved in shaping projects

• Sign up to the NCVS e-bulletin as all information goes out through this – click here to register

•Future consultations and events relating to LAEO will be promoted, and potentially held, at NCVS

•Community Navigator grant application is currently open – click here for more info

How can you get involved?

Thank you for listening

Any questions?

Holly Neill

hollyn@nottinghamcvs.co.uk

0115 934 9560

Nottingham Community and Voluntary Service (NCVS)