Emerging
Themes have been created
as a way to capture some of the ideas, concerns, and issues
that spring from the work of the NDT. They may offer new ideas,
or an NDT viewpoint on a familar issue, or perhaps voice worries
about trends in thinking or service development.We
hope these papers are useful to people who are also struggling
to make sense of the same issues - and we'd welcome your comments
and experiences. Emerging Themes also provide some sense
of who we are and how we see the world of health and social
care.
Support for social inclusion often gets blocked
by worries about risk. This paper considers how the conflicts
between these two preoccupations of social care can be eased,
and explores different models for managing risk.
Mental
health day services
Safe and Sound: How
do we ensure we keep what's best about traditional day services
during the modernisation process?
The need for'safe places' is often set against
development of services that aim for social inclusion. Here,
Peter Bates aims to see beyond these over-simplified opposites,
and to consider what's really meant by a 'safe place'. This
article was originally published in Mental
Health Today (Feb 2007) and is available here with the
kind permission of Pavilion
Publishing.
Strategic
thinking in service and community development.
Community, Service, Person:
A Platform for Observation
This paper is offered as a first attempt at
a fresh examination of the relationship between service organisations,
the community, and individuals supported by services.
Social
Inclusion
In
praise of Slow Inclusion
Peter Bates suggest that the fast lane may
not be the best place to help social inclusion to happen.
Social
Inclusion
Accidents
at the inclusion traffic lights:
Mistakes and misunderstandings
in supporting people to achieve social inclusion
The NDT's inclusion traffic lights are a helpful way of thinking
about services. But they also highlight some mistaken ideas
about how services should be supporting people to achieve social
inclusion. This paper outlines the kinds of 'accident' that
can result.
If we're going to see progress towards
social inclusion, mainstream community services and specialist
health and social care providers need to work together in
the right way. We invented triangles of support as
a way to understand what sort of relationships is required.
Responding to dreams in person-centred
planning:
Stories and helpful tips
"What are your dreams?" is an important
question in person-centred planning. But sometimes it's difficult
to get answer, or to understand the answer. And sometimes the
answer may be worrying.. This paper looks at these different
kinds of dream, and suggests how they can all help to plan for
a better life.
