Sefton MBC

Sefton Council in partnership with South Sefton and Southport & Formby Clinical Commissioning Groups, jointly developed and implemented an Individual Service Fund (ISF) model, which was bold and innovative in its approach. We consulted and engaged service users, support providers and advocacy to fulfil our ambition, which was to enable service users to have full choice and control in designing and co-producing their own support service, which met their individual assessed care and support needs, whilst achieving identified outcomes in conjunction with their chosen Individual Service Fund provider.

’We are very pleased to be sponsoring the Children’s services, Public Health & Health and Social Care award categories at this year’s LGC Awards. It has certainly been a very challenging year for a number of reasons, not least a global pandemic, so we are looking forward to celebrating the outstanding achievements across local government this afternoon. Attenti consulting is a specialist consultancy delivering bespoke, sustainable solutions to a range of health and social care clients; with a passion to promote best practice across the sector through the facilitation of webinars, commissioning research & white papers and hosting events to encourage shared learning and sector-led improvement. Do visit our website to see how we have supported clients with various challenges www.attenti-consulting.co.uk

This award is open to a single council or where appropriate a partnership of councils, or a council-owned company. Private sector partners can enter on a council’s behalf, with the permission of the council itself. With financial pressures and a growing population of older people, and people with disabilities, adult social care is under pressure. This award recognises how councils have innovated to improve or maintain services amid these pressures. It seeks to recognise projects likely to facilitate integration between health and social care, boost personalisation, and improve collaboration between the public, private and voluntary sectors to improve delivery. This award is intended to recognise and promote best practice in this critically important area.