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Practice governance
To develop practice governance that:
- ensures and supports the delivery of safe and effective practice
- allows professionals to deliver services in an innovative, responsible and accountable way
Developing a new approach to citizen leadership
Changing Lives highlighted the need to build the capacity to deliver personalised services. This means that the input of service users and carers to the recruitment, training and development of social work services staff and to the planning and delivery of services is vital. Our approach has been to build upon the excellent work of the users and carers panel which met during the course of the social work review. This panel gave some early thought to what citizen leadership might mean, which has been developed further to create a set of principles and standards for effective citizen leadership.
Practice will then be audited to identify existing good practice. This will be built upon and used to develop further resources, tools and training to support the widespread utilisation of citizen leadership. The Scottish Consortium for Learning Disability will lead this work, building upon their work during the social work review.
The User and Carer Forum provides the opportunity for service users and carers to directly influence and shape implementation of the Changing Lives agenda. They have produced a Citizen Leadership Report and paper on Principles and Standards of Citizen Leadership that follows up on the idea of Citizen Leadership which had first been developed in the 21st century social work review.
