Aveiro Session – 5
Jens Sibbersen – first part not recorded. Begins where he is talking about how his Employment Centre to private companies and employers.
5:00 Neil Woodbridge – works with people with learning disabilities through Social Enterprise. Interesting for practicalities
7:00 – They are ‘not hard to reach but hard to listen to’. 8:00 how the money is raised and channelled into Social good.
8:57 – Cheaper than government services.
10:00 – Getting to know people in the community and putting people back into the community rather than big central facilities.
10:45 – Focus not on problems but on personal assets (gifts, abilities…), solutions. ‘Assets-based Community Development’.
12:00 Co-production. Putting people in charge of the process.
12:40 – Contract goes down in value, to make them work harder to keep going.
13:09 – Running costs, prices of services and other items are less than for local government. Gives examples.
15:20 – Staff happier as they have more decision making capacity.
16:30 – Disabled people are in the management7direction of the company