ICAN Programme Involvement Choice & Advocacy National

1. ICAN ProgrammeInvolvement Choice & Advocacy National Julie-Jaye Charles Equalities National Council Founder and Chief Executive

2. The gap between legislation, policy and reality • Race Relations Amendment Act • Our Health, our care, our say • Independent Living Bill • Disability Equality Duty

3. The gap between legislation, policy and reality • Black men are more likely to experience compulsory detention in Mental Health units. • BME service users are less likely to access direct payments and many other mainstream services. • There is no legislation or policy that currently protects against “Multiple Discrimination”. Performance Indicators workshop held in partnership with Catch-a-fiya and the CSIP Delivering Race Equality Programme

4. ICAN Mission • Disabled People and their carers will have access to an Involvement and Choice Advocate, that specialises in providing essential support and expertise; dealing with health, social care, housing, employment, education and the criminal justice system. • Train and empower disabled service users and carers to become advocates. • Develop working partnerships with mainstream organisations.

5. Set up regionally based advocacy teams, to deliver services at grassroots level. • Helps communities to help themselves, by rebuilding community relationships and ownership. • ICAN will be a mainstreamed at the heart of service streams, delivering sustainable resources.

6. ICAN’s Impact • Personal Development: (i.e. volunteering, education, training and apprenticeships). • Centres of Excellence: ICAN model duplicated across the 9 UK Regions • Secondments: in partnership Government Departments, Agencies and Mainstream Organisations. • Increase the uptake and awareness of Direct Payments, Individual Budgets and Personalisation. • Work Placements for university student social workers.

7. Mental Health issues voiced and championed. • Develop sustainable programmes and partnerships. • Service user involvement platform, • Information Resource, • Training and development base • National advocacy programme • Robust mentoring and outreach initiative.

8. 9 Government Regions

9. London Boroughs Inner London Boroughs Camden Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith and Fulham Islington Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Lambeth Lewisham Southwark Tower Hamlets Wandsworth Westminster  Outer London Boroughs Barking and DagenhamBarnet Bexley Brent Bromley Croydon Ealing Enfield Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Kingston upon ThamesMerton Newham Redbridge Richmond upon ThamesSutton Waltham Forest

10. The ICAN Jigsaw Leadership Academy Representation and Campaigning Equality Impact Assessment National Advocacy Programme Commissioning, Tendering and Procurement Mentoring Programme Capacity and Sustainability Development Personal Development and Recruitment

11. Social Care Providers Disabled People Organisation ERCH NHS Local Government Primary Care Trusts CriminalJustice System BME Community 9 REGIONS - Where do you fit in?

12. ICAN Benefits ICAN Benefits Benefits of ICAN are: • people from hard to reach communities will gain access to better services. • Measurable cost savings for the Department of Health, Community and Local Government and Regional Development Corporations. • Statutory and essential support for BMER disabled people and carers who use health and social care services. Resourcing

13. BME disabled people and carers will gain training, work experience and self esteem as volunteer advocates. • Improving standards across mainstream advocacy services through service user-led training initiatives. • Development of innovative links with Personal Carer services. • Access to Direct Payments, Individual Budgets and Personalisation. ICAN will remove and avoid the many gaps and barriers that BME disabled people and their carers face on a daily basis; while also coping with life’s many challenges and bureaucratic processes.