Gavin Croft & Karen Saville Croft

OUR LIFE, OUR WAY

Loss Skills Relationships Role Identity IncomeLIFE

Personal budget

LifeChoice

Risk Power

Appropriate level of support – one size does not fit all

February 2013

Continuing health care funding

February 2013

LifeChoiceControl

January 2014

Risk averseNo choiceNo control

January 2014

Current health and social care system and funding

• Confusing• Inflexible• Risk averse• Predictable

Road to Nowhere

Hospice support

Nursing homeAgency provision

4 pop ins daily

Tip into health

FEAR

££Fact or fiction

Challenges• Pounds –improving at sharing • Organisational culture – How do we change behaviours, relationships and

learn to trust• Process – simple clear and transparent, sharing information• Real co-production – How do we do more than connect with people and

in communities recognise and value expert by experience • Underdeveloped market – It is said 80% of people have a personal

budget. – has this changed the market NO and why..because we do what weve always done, think what we have always thought, buy what weve always bought DON’T ASK.

• Nothing changes but things have to change not only because it is not sustainable but to provide a better experience for people and because..

Images of Possibility

Images of possibility for me in this state,My mind, my whole being, trapped in this body, I hate.

Inefficient and useless, well that’s how I feelImages of possibility, how can I make this real.

To me, my situation, my being, my life,Not only for me but my family, my wife.

We just want to be what we always have beenLively, fun and chaotic not disabled has been.

Not past my sell by, not even that oldA man, human being with life still to unfold.Images of possibility you’re lost in my mind;

The mind of a man appearing broken but kind.A man with his life, not the life of his choice

But the life of a man with confused, mixed up voice.Images of possibility, I help just to see,

How to stay in control and to help me find me.

Karen Saville-Croft and Gavin Croft

Right to Control Manchester Area Partnership

Slide 14

Never arrive lest you limit the distance you might have travelled

“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.”

THEODORE ROOSEVELTFrom a speech given in Paris at the Sorbonne in 1910