Community Solutions: the conversation so far
The Power in Our Communities events
We are excited to share our summary from ‘The Power in our Communities: Catalysts for Change‘, the events we held with Healthcare Improvement Scotland’s Innovation Hub (ihub) in June.
The event shared learning from Covid-19 on the contribution and impact of community responses. It also included presentations on work ihub led and supported over the past year, along with updates on related work around making social care work well for people.
ihub hosted an afternoon discussion session for people in Health and Social Care Partnerships and other parts of the public sector, and Outside the Box hosted the discussion session for people in the community sector – a wide term we are using here to include voluntary organisations, community groups, social enterprises, micro businesses and others based in local areas. We had a second discussion session a few days later, and the Health Social Enterprise Network hosted a session the following week.
What does a good community-led approach for health and social care look
like?
As well as communicating what’s been learned, the events were a chance for everyone to consider some key questions. We discussed what ‘good’ community-led care and support looks like – and what helps make it possible. Everyone who took part was thoughtful, sharing useful learning from their experiences and real passion for the power communities have to shape their futures!
Follow-up work has already begun on some of the good ideas which came up in these discussions. We’ll be sharing more about ‘co-shadowing’ next week – stay tuned! We would love it if you can share this summary note with your networks, and take the opportunity to join the conversation.
The Power in Our Communities summary
This summary note brings together the main points from the conversations at the three Power in Our Communities events with the community sector.
Read the Power in Our Communities summary here.
The events were full of insightful conversations and learning points, including:
- Building trusting local partnerships and relationships
- Co-production in the planning and funding stages
- Finding and accessing support
- Having good conversations
- Respecting each other’s different roles and strengths
- Thinking long-term
- Collective leadership and accountability
- Supporting workers and small organisations
- Understanding what evidence is needed
As well as sharing identified actions we can all work together on – across sectors, organisations and communities.
We want to thank everyone who contributed, and hope you’ll find this helpful for conversations and planning!
To learn more about our work on Community Solutions, you can read our reports on showing the impact, and finding the right support. You can see all the event resources and related work from ihub here.