Commission visits to front line social care services
11 March 2008
The Chair of CSCI, Dame Denise Platt, and our other
Commissioners regularly visit care services up and down the country
in order to find out about what is happening in social care on the
ground and to listen to the experiences of those people who use
services.
In February 2008 Dame
Denise and Commissioner Peter Westland visited Kirklees in West
Yorkshire. They went to look at some of the social care services
provided by the local council and their partners and meet the
people who used those services.
Dame Denise says “I try and visit social care services
throughout the country as often as I can and talk with the people
who use those services to hear their views and listen to their
concerns. The Commission aims to put the people who use social care
services first in all our work and visiting the front line and
listening to what people say is critical to our work.”
The day in Kirklees included visiting Claremont House care home
in Heckmondwike, which specialises in caring for older people with
dementia or Alzheimer’s. They also saw how Pathway Day Services in
Mirfield helps people with mental health problems to return to or
gain employment and visited a flat development that gives people
with learning disabilities the opportunity to live in their own
home.
Picture courtesy of Huddersfield Examiner