As part of Sitra’s new focus on the personalisation agenda, we are approaching our members to establish three things:

1.  Best practice examples of personalised support plans

2. Minimum standards agreement with Personal Assistants

3.  Service user ‘charter’

Read more about this research here.

Sitra are seeking to recruit to this new post located in the Services team, and based in our London office.

The Public Events and Member Services Officer will hold a pivotal role in coordinating our public course and events programme and in developing our services to members.

Sitra is collaborating with Stuart Nevill, Head of Offender Services at St. Mungo's and Voluntary Sector Management MSc student, in order to analyse how the housing, support and care sector (and the Voluntary & Community sector [VCS] as a whole) is responding to the introduction of Local Area Agreements. In light of the recent removal of the Supporting People ring fence, concerns have been raised regarding the risks and uncertainties that VCS organisations are now facing and how they are managing these.

In addition, Sitra is keen to establish how housing, support and care commissioners, providers and service users are represented and involved in their LSP.

To help you answer these questions, we have created a survey

Click here to take survey

We are encouraging as many organisations to respond to as possible, to collect as much information as we can. The information gathered in this survey contributes to a broader body of research dedicated to establishing the risks and uncertainties of VCS organisations and to research funded by Communities and Local Government.

Any queries relating to this research should be directed to Victoria Thorpe, at victoriat@sitra.org

If you’re involved in your LSP, we’d like to hear from you.

Sitra is working with the National Housing Federation to map involvement of support and care providers and housing associations in these partnerships.

Take a look at our new training guide, containing courses from July to August 2009 and details of other Sitra services.

Management courses in July

During July, we’re offering you the opportunity to sample a range of professional development courses designed for managers in housing, care or support organisations. Click here for more information

Early bird discount

To celebrate 25 years of Sitra, we're offering an early bird discount of £25 on all courses booked not less than 20 working days in advance.

This paper captures the views of a wide range of practitioners and policy makers working within housing and supported housing as part of the debate around how to deliver the aims of the Government’s Putting People First agenda for the transformation of care and support.

The QAF Refresh was released in April, 2009.

Our new page dedicated to the QAF Refresh has more information including an explanation of the new format, links to the QAF documents on SPKweb and FAQs.

QAF Training

Sitra were fundamental in the drafting, piloting and reviewing of the refreshed QAF. Our training courses provide the most up to date perspective on the new Quality Assessment Framework.

Introducing the revised QAF: CSHS seminar in association with Sitra.

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Sitra Inhouse training provides flexible, tailored, cost effective training at the time and location of your choosing.