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Karyn Kirkpatrick retweeted
22 Jan 2024
3 days to go until we join @citizen_network to find out about #peersupport innovations in New Zealand! It's an early one but it'll be well worth it 🌞☕️ Sign up here: ow.ly/x9IT50QoIew
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Karyn Kirkpatrick retweeted
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New year, new challenge? Join our trustee board. They're a welcoming bunch that are seeking someone currently working in social care to join them. Best suited to people who seek a better social care future. #SocialCareFuture #trustee #volunteer
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Karyn Kirkpatrick retweeted
5 days until the launch of Everyday Citizenship! Our CEO @KarynatKeyRing says: "Wendy's real-life examples bring the keys to citizenship alive" Pre-order at bit.ly/3NR7oN4 #EverydayCitizenship
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Karyn Kirkpatrick retweeted
Ooo lovely - over 25k views!! Please keep sharing and don't forget, if you draw on support to live your life, let us know what you'd like to be doing, if the right support were available (ideas for how to do that here: socialcarefuture.org.uk/noti…) #IWouldLoveTo
We asked friends who draw on social care 'If the right support were available, what would you love to do with your life?' Here's what they told us 👇 If you draw on social care, tell us what you'd love to do in life, using #IWouldLoveTo Read more: socialcarefuture.org.uk/noti…
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Karyn Kirkpatrick retweeted
It's been a big year for the #SocialCareFuture movement... here are some of our highlights 👇

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Karyn Kirkpatrick retweeted
Learning Disability England is working in partnership with @BILD_tweets to write a new chapter - 'Good Lives - Good Health' for the #GoodLives Framework. People with #LearningDisabilities can share thoughts on good healthcare & staying healthy here: tinyurl.com/glghsurv
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Karyn Kirkpatrick retweeted
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We've just received the great new #SocialCareFuture monthly newsletter r1.technology-trust-news.org…. You can quickly and easily subscribe to receive it directly to your inbox at socialcarefuture.org.uk

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Have you signed up to receive our lovely monthly newsletter, packed with all the stuff you need to help grow a brighter #SocialCareFuture? Here's our first edition r1.technology-trust-news.org… Sign up here to get it straight to your inbox socialcarefuture.org.uk

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Karyn Kirkpatrick retweeted
I worked on this and am enormously proud of its publication today. It’s a testament to the hard work of all the people involved: we shared experiences, analysed, debated, disagreed, laughed and learned together. Please read and share!
A brighter social care future: co-producing the evidence to make five key changes. Read about our co-produced evidenced review, with @researchIP socialcarefuture.org.uk/a-br…
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Karyn Kirkpatrick retweeted
“Wendy is a role model for the next generation” Gary Bourlet @LearningDisEng on 'Everyday Citizenship: Seven keys to a life well lived' Preorder now 👉 ow.ly/iKVa50Qh839 #EverydayCitizenship #inclusion #selfdirection #selfdirectedsupport #LearningDisabilities #care
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Karyn Kirkpatrick retweeted
Our circumstances may change, but our humanness never will. Moving away from our current system, where people are treated like data points, is the way forward! Read our Wisdoms to hear more from people with lived experience: maydaytrust.org.uk/wisdoms/
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Karyn Kirkpatrick retweeted
Learning Disability England's new #Accessible housing guide launches today. It will help people with a #LearningDisability and their families think about where they want to live and know their rights and choices. Read here: tinyurl.com/5t3cz6zh @NHSEngland @HousingLIN
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Karyn Kirkpatrick retweeted
I keep looking but I still can't see those commitments on #socialcare
Faster. Simpler. Fairer. For patients and staff. @VictoriaMAtkins has set out her commitments on the health and social care system after a busy week of delivering for patients and hitting key targets ⤵️ Get the details: gov.uk/government/news/healt…
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Karyn Kirkpatrick retweeted
This is one long ‘andsocialcareism’ (when ‘AND social care’ is added to text that’s only really about the NHS). So it thanks ‘health, social care and research staff for delivering on patient priorities’. But try finding a real #socialcare priority in here gov.uk/government/news/healt…
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Karyn Kirkpatrick retweeted
Stories change the world and social care needs a better story. Read this new joint authored piece by @AnnaSeverwright & Beverley Tarka @1adass, with input from @LGAcomms @SCIE_socialcare for @themjcouk disq.us/t/4kp3i3s #SocialCareFuture
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Karyn Kirkpatrick retweeted
Social care isn't just under-resourced, it's under-imagined. We've got on & started to change the public story of social care. Tomorrow we're at #NCASC23, exploring how we can align, support & cooperate with others to build on our work. socialcarefuture.org.uk/chan…
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Karyn Kirkpatrick retweeted
“The traditional model of service delivery – based around centrally-organised, standardised solutions to discrete problems – doesn’t work when people are facing complex & interconnected challenges.” @MilaLukic spells out the problem with centralisation 🗨️ newlocal.org.uk/articles/how…
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Karyn Kirkpatrick retweeted
Services built bespoke around relationships that recognise the variability & potential of real lives, rather than processes, which cannot. @MarkAdamSmith’s Liberated Method is powerful must-read for anyone involved in public service reform @CFNorthumbria changingfuturesnorthumbria.c…
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Karyn Kirkpatrick retweeted
New book 'Everyday Citizenship: Seven keys to a life well-lived' is written by and for people with learning disabilities and is all about changing how society thinks about people who are ‘different’... Preorders available now - Launching 9 January 2024 #EverydayCitizenship
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