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What the Inclusion Institute Offers

With a number of academic and development associates to augment the broad range of resources of ISCRI, the Inclusion Institute will offer established learning networks, bespoke practice development, teaching and course development and practice-based evaluation and research. Together with its national partner and affiliate organisations, it aims to work on inclusion for older people, families, people with dementia and disability as well as in mental health.

There are 10 planned work themes in 4 over-arching activity areas, linked to the wider resources of ISCRI:

1. Building the evidence base, nationally and internationally through academic and practice partnership.
2. Support practice development for inclusion outcomes through commissioned consultancy for local practice and shared learning; utilising locally the resources developed by NSIP.
3. Promoting leadership for organisational change by drawing out, connecting and enabling leadership for inclusion in NHS, social care and community agencies.
4. Engaging Communities by promoting local accountability to diverse communities and co-productive social networks of support and participation.

Arts and Culture

• Working with service user led organisations to raise awareness of the link between the arts, inclusion and wellbeing.
• Developing the evidence base for health effectiveness through databases of good practice.
• Supporting mainstream arts organisations to be more inclusive through brokerage and bespoke training (Open to All).

Child and Family Mental health

• Supporting service development on child and family mental health.
• Working to bridge the gap between child and and adult services, supporting services to "Think Family".

Connected Communities

• Building capacity and evaluating effective social network models; enabling services to advance inclusion outcomes through lay engagement.
• Linking with the work of the RSA (as an affiliated organisation) and using participatory mapping and analysis of  specific social networks to look at how social capital and social networks can be better understood and used to promote civic capacity and inclusive communities.

Day Services

• Supporting the thoughtful modernisation of mental health day services in line with national guidance and within a local context, ensuring day services facilitate the increased social inclusion of people with mental health problems.
• A Research and Knowledge database, to provide information and support to people modernising day services at a local level.
• The National Day Services Modernisation Network (in conjunction with Mind, Rethink and Richmond Fellowship), with a monthly e-bulletins, sent directly to over 650 people.

Education, Learning and Skills

• Widening mainstream access; a continuing partnership with nine regional networks.

Employment

• Working with service users; supporting improved employment  outcomes through new approaches to stakeholder engagement, evidence and learning.
• The Employment, Learning and Information Exchange Project is an Inclusion Institute and Department for Work and Pensions joint venture aimed at facilitating more effective information exchange and mutual learning in the UK mental health and employment sector at a local community level.

Housing

• Inclusion outcomes in settled accommodation.

Personalisation and Commissioning for the Individual Citizen

• In the community for inclusion outcomes.
• Working with policy on personalisation to promote commissioning and service approaches that enable inclusion outcomes from individualised processes.

Primary Care

• Developing approaches to inclusion outcomes and community partnerships at practice level.

Workforce

• Developing the capable workforce and skills for leadership in services and communities through sharing ideas, strategies and successes in a collaborative environment.
• A group of key professional bodies (RCN, BPS, COT, BAAT and RCP) is working with the Inclusion Institute to continue the interprofessional relationships started around the inclusion capabilities, and share the emerging good practice at strategic and practice levels.

 Leadership

• Working with a group of Foundation Mental Health Trusts across England, agreeing with local services ways to promote a socially inclusive workforce at all levels in the organisation, with access to tools and resources generated through NSIP.

Working in Partnership

The Inclusion Institute works co-productively through a number of hosted networks. These include an experienced reference group of service users, an integrated network of Professional Colleges with the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services and an established academic network of universities. It will link with a number of European and wider international programmes and networks.

Partnership and affiliation will be developed with a number of national and regional organisations. We are pleased to announce that these already include the Alzheimer’s Society, the College of Occupational Therapists, In-Control, (the social enterprise for self-directed support), the Kings Fund Leadership Directorate, the Mental Health Foundation, the National Development Team for inclusion, NIACE (the
national organisation for Adult and Further Education), the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), Skills for Health and the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry.