Turning Point Building Futures is an innovative
new service proposition. Using capital funding from the
Futurebuilders iniative, we will develop services in five places
across England supporting people with mental health problems or
learning disabilities to live independently in the community. The
places within these services will then be available to local
commissioners to buy for their service users.
What is Futurebuilders?
Futurebuilders is a government-backed fund offering support and
investment to third sector organisations to deliver public
services. You can find out more by visiting the Futurebuilders
website.
Turning Point has been granted £15.2 million capital investment
from the fund to develop our vision for new Building Futures
services.
What will the Building Futures services
provide?
Services will be developed across five sites for people who are
likely to have a combination of mental illness, personality
disorder, learning disability, substance misuse issues and / or
challenging behaviours. Service users will:
• Have needs which require high levels of support to live
independently in the community
• Continue to present medium levels of risk to themselves or others
without appropriate levels of support.
• Present a level of risk that is over and above that which can be
safely managed in existing community facilities.
Where will services be developed?
The five
areas that have been identified for these innovative new services
are:
• South Yorkshire
• West Midlands
• North West of England
• North East of England
• Manchester
South Yorkshire will be the first service to be ready to accept
service users, opening in 2009. The remaining services will be
delivered by 2011.
Why the need for this new approach?
Out of
Area Treatments (OATs) have become a major area of concern for
Government, commissioners, service providers and service
users.
There is a serious shortage of services for people ready to move on
from secure hospital settings but who still need high levels of
support. Often, commissioners resort to OATs to allow these people
to be given the support they need to lead a more independent life
in the community.
OATs take service users away from family, friends and the
communities they know and are often costly for commissioners. With
the numbers of people being admitted to medium and low secure
services increasing every year, the problem is only increasing.
Benefits to service users
Service users
who require high levels of support to live independently in the
community will now benefit from having suitable services that allow
them to be supported in their own community. They will:
• No longer have to be placed in services far from their
home
• Benefit from person centred care shaped around their needs
• Be supported in an environment suitable to their needs
• Benefit from a more independent life, with more choice and social
inclusion
Benefits to commissioners
Turning Point is
working proactively with commissioners to identify local needs and
design services that fit into whole systems, filling gaps in the
local care provision. The services will bring:
• Enhanced service delivery
• Cost efficiency savings for local PCT purchasers
• Enhanced local care pathways
• Increased alignment with NHS networks through collaboration with
local Trust providers
• Specialised services into localised regions
Contact us
To discuss Turning Point
Building Futures and how it might help service users in your area,
please contact Barry Roberts, Director - Strategic Business
Development
Barry.Roberts@turning-point.co.uk
Download a PDF of the
Building Futures leaflet (pdf - 233kb)