Borough of Telford & Wrekin

Putting People First in Telford and Wrekin

Information you need to know about the Putting People First in Telford and Wrekin transformation programme.

The programme commenced on 1 July 2008

The way in which we provide social care services for adults is being transformed. The Government in its Putting People First document has set out some of the biggest challenges and changes for social care since the introduction of the 1990 NHS and Community Care Act.
The emphasis is now on the individuals dignity, the right to choice, control and power over the services they receive.
The focus is on providing services at an early point, to help prevent people requiring high levels of care over a longer term.
This aims to help people remain independent for as long as possible. Our approach will change to enable people to have far greater control over their assessment, and more choice as to what services will be delivered to meet their needs. This includes access to information and the resources to access the services that suit them and their personal requirements.

A transformation programme has been identified from which the changes to our current systems will be made. This programme commenced on 1 July 2008 and is expected to continue through to 2011.

We will keep you up to date and provide information about our progress on these web pages.


These aims are aspirations that we can all identify with,

for


  • ourselves,
  • our relations, and for
  • our community.

Documents from government you may find useful are

Putting People First
Our health, our care, our say

For further information about the project you can email:
puttingpeoplefirst@telford.gov.uk

We are also issuing newsletters on a regular basis and they can be found on the newsletters page

Details of recent events about Putting People First can be found on the Events page









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