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LAUNCH OF THE NAAPS SOCIAL ENTERPRISE
Community Catalysts Ltd, a NAAPS Social Enterprise, was launched on 1 January
2010. The new company allows NAAPS to take forward its charitable purposes through
trading, generating income in the process which will ensure that the charity is
sustainable in the long term.
Community Catalysts aims to provide real choice for people who need support and
services by ensuring that very small care services delivered by individuals and
families in local communities can develop and thrive
It is going to do this by providing:
a) Help to local authorities and other organisations who want to support very small
care services or expand their Shared Lives service. The help could be just providing
advice and support or the company can if the local authority wants run the service
on their behalf.
b) A quality marking service for agencies that support very small care services
and for Shared Lives Schemes (the quality mark will allow agencies and Schemes
to show local authorities and others how good they are)
c) Products and services (such as training, seminars and publications) for Shared Lives Schemes and Carers, support agencies and small community service
providers to help them meet standards and improve the way in which they are working.
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Sian Lockwood has been seconded by the NAAPS Board of Trustees to act as Chief
Executive of the new company for two years. The Board of Trustees were unable
to appoint a new Chief Executive for NAAPS following internal recruitment (limited
to members and staff) and will advertise the post externally in early January. Sian will move into her new role with Community Catalysts on 1 January 2010 but
will continue as Chief Executive of NAAPS on a part time basis until her post
is filled.
SHARED LIVES SCHEMES' MENTAL CAPACITY ACT TRAINING
SCIE funded NAAPS to produce a pack to enable SL Schemes to provide SL Carers
with training on the new Mental Capacity Act.
The entire pack is available as a zip file here. If you opt to save the Zip File it will be saved on your hard drive and put
a shortcut icon on your Desktop.
The Business Case for Shared Lives
NAAPS was commissioned by IESE to produce a Shared Lives Research Report [8.55 MB] that brings together quality, outcomes and financial information about
Shared Lives schemes in the south east region. The research and evaluation stage
of the the project is now complete and the report can be downloaded from:
The study will also be available soon as a download from the NAAPS website.