Supporting Community Resourcefulness and Resilience

Description

THIS IS A CONTRACT AWARD The Covid 19 outbreak has had a positive effect on the way that some communities come together to support their members and were able to work more closely with statutory, independent and third sector services. In many local areas, community led support has, through necessity, found new energy. There are many factors that have supported this change and key partners such as local authorities, County Voluntary Councils and Health Boards have told us they are interested in further nurturing the resourcefulness and mutual support communities are developing. There is a growing interest in place-based working and communities have a central role in this. We have an opportunity to co-ordinate this timely response building on existing work and partnerships. A cross sector approach and response is critical and benefits everybody; by sharing the responsibility, we can increase the likelihood of sustaining and embedding our collective work. We want to use the evidence and tools we have developed to support change and improvement with key partners including those listed above and below. The work will focus on community led support for well-being as a way of supporting prevention and early intervention. This means working with social care, health and more broadly with others working with and in communities. Our engagement shows a strong appetite for multi-sector working in this area, and we have made a number of links with relevant projects and programmes to support the work. The overarching aims of the work include: • support organisations and communities to develop joint or aligned place-based working: o using the framework for change developed as part of our 2020/21 work o drawing on opportunities that arise from population needs assessments and well-being assessments being planned through regional partnership boards and public service boards. • develop a sense of cohesion across the range of community-led support models including volunteering, community linking roles (community connectors, Local Area Co-ordinators, social prescribing) and micro-enterprises. You would be expected to: 1. Support the Resourceful Communities Partnership to establish itself as a national, multi-sector forum for organisations that promote improved wellbeing for communities across Wales. 2. Work with the Resourceful Communities Partnership and Social Care Wales to grow support for the group and its work through formal recognition and growing membership. This includes making connections with related groups, e.g. Wales School for Social Prescribing Research, ‘Small is Beautiful’ network, Community Movement Cymru, National Commissioning Board and Care and Support at Home. 3. Apply the framework for change developed during 2020-21 through local deep-dive action projects, in 2 locations across Wales with varying demographic profiles, to generate evidence, refine the framework and share learning around successes and barriers. The Supplier will work closely with Social Care Wales officers and our partners to develop and deliver the work. This will be through remote working, web-based meetings and events and face-to-face meetings and events if they become feasible as the pandemic progresses. Please see ITT and Specification for further information