Barry Roberts Introduction Video Transcript
(Barry Roberts speaking) “Hello, I’m Barry Roberts, I am the Director for Strategic Business Development for Turning Point. Welcome to this film, but more importantly welcome to The Corner House in Rotherham which is Turning Points newest and most exciting service that we have developed in some time. It is new and exciting because it represents the culmination of one Turning Points overall aspirations fort the organisation which is to become and an organisation that delivers health and social care to over 500,000 people. The Corner House provides services for people who are perhaps amongst the most marginalised in society, people who have very complicated and complex needs both mental health, learning disabilities, perhaps substance misuse who because of their histories have perhaps been involved with the Criminal Justice System or have been kept in secure settings, in secure hospitals. People very marginalised.”
“So that was an area where turning point identified a need to develop new local services, in partnership with commissioners. Doing business differently is about establishing new relationships with commissioners and saying to them, here we both recognise there are gaps in service. Rather than having to be commissioner lead, we’ve identified a gap, we can come up with a solution, we can come up with the funding to help develop a service that meets your requirements and delivers better outcomes for those people who are most marginalised and in inappropriate settings.
And that is really what The Corner House is all about.”
“And that really brings us to Turning Point Building Futures, TP BF is a new company, a subsidiary of Turning Point the charity which we formed to take ahead the development of The Corner House and what we hope will be a whole series of similar services across the North of the country. And we did that in partnership with Future Builders England, now known as Social Investment Business but originally a treasury backed fund to help third sector organisations build their capacity to deliver public service contracts and to make a significant impact in the delivery of public services and change the way public services were delivered.”
“Doing business differently, delivering bespoke packages of care designed for individuals. One of the things that you will see as you take a tour of The Corner House, is that it is a small unit. It’s 12 bedsits, it’s not a 40 bed unit, it’s not an 80 bed unit. It is not a hospital. It’s home and its domestic. That combined with a model that we have designed, is about high levels of staffing that support individuals to achieve their own goals in terms of their recovery and their move towards independence makes it a unique service. It is a bespoke service for every individual who comes here to help them achieve the outcomes that they are involved with indentifying. So it is very much about personal empowerment and delivery of personal service.”