Holly's Presentation from EMRAN Launch

1. Vulnerable Adults’
Providers Network
Holly Neill
Nottingham CVS

2. • Vulnerable Adults’ Providers
Network (VAPN)
• Looking After Each Other
programme

3. • A network for voluntary and community
sector organisations that work with
vulnerable adults
• To help network members to better
support the vulnerable adults they work
with and improve their services
• Connect groups to each other and to
commissioners
What is the VAPN?

4. • Identify training and development needs
• Ensure members are connected to local
commissioning opportunities, consultations and
events
• Encourage joint working and consortia for
tenders
• Helping to make groups ready to tender for
contracts
• Letting groups know about funding
• Information sharing
What is the VAPN?

5. • The VAPN is connected to other networks
and forums in the city and this provides
another opportunity to share information
and keep everyone updated
• Information from these other networks can
then be distributed amongst members
Connections

6. • Age Friendly Nottingham
• Children and Vulnerable Adult Workforce
Strategy Group
• SPLAT – Learning Disability and Autism
Partnership Board
• Dual Diagnosis Forum
• HWB3
• Mental Heath and Employment Network
• Voluntary Homelessness Forum
Connections

7. • Meetings are held every 2 months and will
usually focus on a different theme.
• Network members can attend all the
meetings or choose ones they want to
attend
• Meetings will be about sharing
information, connecting to other voluntary
sector colleagues and groups, and the
commissioning process
Meetings

8. • Meetings will be about sharing
information, connecting to other voluntary
sector colleagues and groups, and the
commissioning process
• In between meetings e-newsletters are
sent out with updates on commissioning
and funding opportunities, training, events,
consultations, new services etc
Information sharing

10. •Enabling and equipping
citizens and communities
to do more to support
themselves and each
other
What is LAEO all about?

11. • LAEO came about in response to
the Vulnerable Adults Plan 2012 –
2015.
• The 2nd
strand is to
• ‘Focus on building community
capacity, personalisation and
citizen choice’
What is LAEO all about?

12. Focus
• Current phase - Vulnerable Adults –people
with disabilities, people with poor mental
health, older people
• Planned next phase – Vulnerable Families
and Children
Outcomes
• Increase of social action and engaged
communities
• Reduced loneliness and social isolation
• Fewer Children in Care System
Focus and outcomes

13. • Jointly led by the Nottingham City Council, NHS
Nottingham City Clinical Commissioning Group
and Nottingham CVS
• LAEO programme launched late March 2014 –
attended by 200 people representing:
• Partners
• Providers
• Citizens
• Voluntary Groups
• Business
• 160 individual LAEO pledges
• But this is only the tip of the iceberg – everyone
needs to be involved to ensure LAEO is a
success
Who’s involved?

14. • 1000+ ideas generated at launch - and existing
LAEO type support across the city mapped
• Supported by funding from HWBB, NCC have used
these ideas (and information on gaps) to shape a
set of six initial pilot projects
• As a basket of ideas should help people and
communities to overcome problems before they
become serious, and to reduce isolation
• Communications and engagement strategy in place
to support these and LAEO as a whole
What’s happening?

15. •‘Get to know your neighbour’ - postcard campaign to
encourage people to get to know their neighbours better and
‘make time for tea’.
•Befriending schemes – befriending adults with learning or
physical disabilities, or mental health issues
•Timebank – way of sharing skills in the local community
•Community Navigators - local volunteers who will help
vulnerable people find their way to local activities or services
•Better connecting need to support - helping frontline staff
identify and support isolated people as early as possible
•Rallyround - a simple website service that enables chores
for vulnerable people to be shared by families, friends,
volunteers and professionals
Six Pilot Projects

16. • So far 3 consultations have been held at NCVS
to get the voluntary sector involved in shaping
projects
• Sign up to the NCVS e-bulletin as all
information goes out through this – click here to
register
•Future consultations and events relating to
LAEO will be promoted, and potentially held, at
NCVS
•Community Navigator grant application is
currently open – click here for more info
How can you get involved?

17. Thank you for listening
Any questions?
Holly Neill
hollyn@nottinghamcvs.co.uk
0115 934 9560
Nottingham Community and Voluntary Service
(NCVS)