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Welcome to the first Health & Social Care Community Involvement newsletter, bringing you opportunities to get involved with Sheffield City Council’s social care programme.
As a subscriber of our Social Care news topic, we thought you might like to receive a copy of our newest newsletter, all about how you can get involved in shaping our social care services.
Getting local people’s input is vital to our services, so we can be confident that they work for you. For starters, maybe you’d like to judge our Dignity Awards or help design our new approach to working together in our citizens involvement project?
Every three months, we’ll let you know about ways to have your say about services, groups you can join and projects to take part in.
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Judge the Dignity Awards
Would you like to help judge next year's Dignity Awards?
Our annual awards celebrate exceptional social work staff who put compassion and respect at the heart of their practice.
The awards were designed and are judged by people who use local care services.
We are now looking for people with experience of care to help create new award categories in December and to join the judging panel next spring.
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Sign up for the Citizens Involvement Project
We have ambitious plans to create new ways for people to collaborate with us.
We want people with experience of support and those that may need it to help us plan and assess our services and hold us to account in areas that need to improve.
Help us design these new ways to participate by joining our three-month citizens involvement project starting in early 2023.
To express your interest, contact Kate Damiral, call: 0114 273 4442, mobile/text: 07733 308335, email: involvement@sheffield.gov.uk
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Have your say on supported living, respite care and day opportunities
People with a learning disability, autistic people and their carers and families are invited to take part in online drop-in conversations with Sheffield Voices to talk about support, as part of the Chance to Choose project.
The project is helping to shape the Council's new approach to buying services for adults with disabilities.
- Sessions for people with a learning disability and autistic people are on Monday 12 December 10am-12pm and Tuesday 13 December 12.30-2.30pm on Zoom.
- Sessions for carers and family members are on Monday 5 December 3-5pm and Wednesday 7 December 6-8pm on Zoom.
For more details, access needs, or to discuss other ways of taking part, email kelly.scargill@disabilitysheffield.org.uk.
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Help improve our information and advice website
We are looking for local people to help us review and improve the Sheffield Directory, our information and advice website.
We will be updating the advice we give and the details of community resources and activities in Sheffield.
Let us know what topics you are interested in, and we will invite you to a group meeting to talk about what information we have on that subject now and how we can improve it.
To find out more, email: information@sheffield.gov.uk or call: 0114 273 5925.
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Loneliness and Safeguarding Project
Our Safeguarding Adults Customer Forum for people with experience of going through safeguarding processes, is working with Sheffield Hallam University to develop a research project on the potential safeguarding risks of isolation and loneliness.
If the funding bid is successful, Forum members will be involved throughout the project, from drafting the bid, to designing the research question and supporting the research.
If you would like to be involved in the project, please email: kate.sanders@sheffield.gov.uk.
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