
Between May 2018 and May 2019 teams from four Greater Manchester localities worked as part of an ‘Innovation’ programme.
Quite simply, the programme aimed to come back to listen to what is important to people and families and through that, find energy and ideas for solutions to some of the ‘knotty’ issues that get in the way of supporting people to lead good lives in the community. It was particularly centred on people with a learning disability most at risk of institutionalisation and aimed to help people get high quality resilient support, and to provide practical models and ways of working that could be shared across Greater Manchester. This programme was set up by the Person and Community Centred Approaches (PCCA) programme of the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership (GMHSCP) supported by resource from NHS England’s Personalised Care programme.