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Appreciative Inquiry Training

In Mid-March this year we gathered in Wilmslow where @Liz Jayne and @Joy van Helvert, hosted a group of 9 other Alders in two days of immersive face to face Appreciative Inquiry training. This was a refresher for existing Alders and an introduction for those who have recently joined us. It was a very enjoyable experience for all involved and help us refine our training and support offer for organisations looking to develop appreciative inquiry approaches within their workplaces.  

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Portsmouth - Developing strengths based practice in Adult Social Care

In the Summer of 2023 we enabled a co-productive appreciative inquiry process at Portsmouth to explore the scope to implement strengths based practice across adult social care. We are currently supporting design and delivery work to implement the recommendations of the appreciative inquiry work. 

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EMADASS - Improving Support for 18-25 year olds with learning disabilities or autism

Alder Advice has just started (October 2024) to support local authorities in the East Midlands ADASS Region to understanding how to best support young adults before and after they have entered adult services and to gain a better insight into the individuals experience, support requirements and the regional support offer.  

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NWADASS - Optimising Support for Work Age Adults

NWADASS – Optimising How Working Age Adults Are Supported

Alder Advice has just started (September 2024) to support local authorities in the North West Region to:

  • Understand why care and support costs, in the region, for working age adults are relatively high compared to the rest of England and why there is a wide variation in costs across the region.
  • Support it to plan how to optimise support costs.
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NW London Appreciative Inquiry – Evaluation of the pilot Keyworker Service

North-West London Appreciative Inquiry – Evaluation of the pilot Keyworker Service

The NHS Long Term Plan has a commitment that “children and young people with a learning disability and/or with autistic spectrum disorder with complex support needs will have a designated keyworker by 2023-24”.

The NWL Keyworker Service is one of 13 national pilot projects linked to this commitment. It started in Hounslow and in Hammersmith and Fulham in February 2021. By July 2022 all eight boroughs in NWL had a Keyworker in post.

Specific requirements of the Appreciative Inquiry evaluation were to:

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