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 Health & Social Care Liaison Project

The Health & Social Care Liaison Project works to:

• enable the voluntary sector to take part in the health and social care planning processes

• liaise with Health & Social Services planners and provide two way communication for the voluntary sector in the planning process

• integrate voluntary sector views into the broader health and social care agenda

• ensure that wider issues of social inclusion, regeneration and equality are encouraged within the work that the voluntary sector does.

 The project does this by:

• facilitating a Client Interest Forum for Older People’s Services that broadly reflects the planning work done by the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Older People’s Partnerships

• supporting the Client Interest Forums in electing representatives to attend appropriate Partnership meetings and any appropriate sub groups

• encouraging representatives to take issues to Partnership meetings and feed information back to Client Interest Forums

• co-ordinating voluntary sector responses to consultation documents

 The other Client Interest Forums operating throughout North Staffordshire are:

Ø            Alcohol & Drugs                                 (facilitated by Voluntary Action)

Ø            Children & Families                            (facilitated by Voluntary Action)

Ø            Housing & Care                                  (facilitated by Voluntary Action)

Ø            Mental Health                                     (facilitated by Voluntary Action)

Ø            Physical & Sensory Disability              (facilitated by Voluntary Action)

Ø            Learning Disabilities                            (facilitated by Newcastle CVS)

If you represent a voluntary or community group, YOU can influence the local Health & Social Care agenda by:

•  attending the Client Interest Forum that relates to your area of activity

•  liaising with the Health & Social Care officer over matters relating to health and/or social care

•  keeping up to date with the consultation papers that are circulated by Health & Social Services   via the Liaison Officer

•  working together to ensure that the voluntary sector has a true partnership role in the Health & Social Care system

For more information about any aspects of the Health & Social Care Liaison Project,

please contact Carol Rodgers on 01538 381356 or email: carolrodgers@smcvs.co.uk

The Health & Social Care Liaison Project also facilitates the Moorlands Together Voluntary & Community Sector Assembly.

Please    click here for further information about the Assembly

Staffordshire Moorlands Community & Voluntary Services

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