128 Goal 5: Integrating the Care - Social Care
Local Engagement Partnership (LEP)
In the Trust there is a commitment to a culture that engages people who use the services to learn
from their experiences and use the learning to inform high quality care.
Local Engagement Partnerships (LEPs) were introduced in 2016 to support the delivery of the
Department of Health's Social Work Strategy with the aim of working together to improve social
work in Trust areas. Membership includes carers and service user representatives, third sector
organisations, social workers and managers. The focus of the LEP in the last year has been to
see co-production in action in the Trust through supporting improvement to services and planning
for change.
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As a service user, being involved in the LEP helps me feel noticed and heard.
It also makes me think practically and realistically about what improvements
could be made to local services."
The LEP have co-produced a video #askmyname
which promotes the principles of Person Centred Care
and the importance of asking service users what they
like to be called.
This video is being used to support induction for new
staff as well as training for current trust staff and
supports the social care council in their training of
domiciliary care staff across Northern Ireland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_wxXsd3oHg
The LEP have also been busy supporting service development through co-producing a summer
scheme for teenagers with autism in August 2019. This was supported by the LEP and YMCA.
Some of the feedback from young people and parents included:
During 2019 the LEP co-designed and
co-delivered coproduction workshops
to support social work staff in the Trust,
talking through the journey of the LEP
and what we can all learn from this.
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It's been a very positive experience for XX - she has tried activities and
opportunities that have really helped to boost her confidence.
The LEP were also delighted to be finalists in
the Chairman's Recognition Awards 2019, in the
category Engage with You, recognising the hard
work and commitment of a vibrant group of people
with lived experience of services, those with caring
responsibilities and paid social work staff from the
Trust and also voluntary agencies.