Social work seminar: Progress on personalisation across England
Date: Thursday 7 October 2010
Time: 5.30pm – 7pm (refreshments from 5pm)
Venue: Room 6139 Frank Lampl Building, Kingston Hill Campus, Kingston University
For information and bookings contact: Melanie Hueser, tel +44 (0)208 8725 0134 or email m.hueser@sgul.kingston.ac.uk
School of Social Work seminar series
The Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences' School of Social Work is delighted to present a series of seminars at their Kingston Hill Campus. The seminars are delivered by leading national and international researchers, policy makers and commentators and focus on issues of topical and contemporary importance. The seminars are open to all staff and students at Kingston University and at St George’s, University of London, staff in local social services in the statutory, voluntary and private sectors, and to service users and carers and their organisations who assist with the School's social work education programmes.
In this free seminar, the twelfth of the series, Jeff Jerome will discuss progress on the personalisation agenda for social care across England.
Jeff Jerome has worked in local government for over 34 years in the field of social services and housing, including roles with Manchester City Council and six London boroughs. Jeff began working as National Director for Social Care Transformation in October 2008, having held the role of Director of Adult and Community Services at the London Borough of Richmond for the previous seven years. This new role, working across local government to develop the personalisation agenda for social care, is government funded and accountable to a consortium comprising the Improvement and Development Agency for local government (IDeA), the Local Government Association, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) and the Department of Health.
In the late 1990s, as a primary carer to his sister, Jeff managed her health and social care ‘direct payments’ to arrange the community-based health and social care support she needed in the years before her death, an experience that instilled in him an absolute commitment to the need to personalise care and support services.
Forthcoming seminars from the School of Social Work
- 5 November: Annual social work conference, Lawley Lecture Theatre, Kingston Hill (full details will be published on our website shortly)