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Call for ideas for innovative personalisation projects

Are you working on personalising social care in the East Midlands? Then you are asked to respond to a 'Call for Ideas'. Innovation Exchange is working with the East Midlands Joint Improvement Partnership to seek out and support some of the best innovation projects in the region that can drive progress on personalising social care.

Innovation Exchange will be staging a Festival of Ideas to draw together commissioners, social investors and supporters around the best innovations within the East Midlands. This is an opportunity to build relationships, showcase work and develop next steps with commissioners and social investors interested in personalisation.

The event will look at all types of innovations, showcasing high-potential third sector innovations that seek to achieve at least one of the following objectives:

Support people to live independently in their own homes, rather than in residential care
Support people with learning disabilities and mental ill-health into employment
Support personal budget holders, for example, through advice, guidance, brokerage and advocacy
Improve quality of life for carers or people with dementia or with long-term conditions

Innovative projects that meet the challenge of personalising social care are asked to respond to the Call for Ideas by 5pm on Thursday 25 February 2010. You can respond to the Call by visiting Innovation exchange. The very best of these ideas will then receive a Festival invitation.

Innovation Exchange is a project of the Innovation Unit that supports innovation in the third sector. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Raj Cheema on 020 7259 1368 or email her at raj.cheema@innovation-unit.co.uk. For more information check out www.innovation-exchange.org/blog.

Date: 29 January 2010