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Home care provider forums

We hold home care provider forums every six weeks for our commissioned providers. These forums are primarily online, with at least one in-person meeting annually. They serve as a space to share information, discuss best practices, and address issues collaboratively.

We take a place-based, locality-focused approach to home care, meaning providers primarily operate in specific areas. This model has led to strong working relationships and national recognition, including a nomination for a 2023 HSJ Award.

Non-commissioned providers

We maintain limited engagement with non-commissioned providers, primarily due to our place-based partnership approach, which focuses on working closely with a set number of providers in specific localities.

For non-commissioned providers operating in Tower Hamlets, we maintain an email list to share occasional updates, usually regarding:

  • Capacity Tracker data requests

  • Infection control guidance

  • Vaccination updates.

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Bi-monthly meetings with providers, internal and external partners including statutory, community and voluntary services. The forum provides an opportunity to discuss issues, developments and share good practice. 

Learning disability (LD) provider forum

The LD provider forum presents the opportunity for local providers and stakeholders to meet with the Commissioning Team to share good news stories and good practice between current providers and those seeking to enter the market.  Meetings are held every four months, and all practitioners are welcome to attend by invitation.

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Carers Partnership Board

The Carers Partnership Board meets every two months online, bringing together:

  • Key health and social care partners

  • Unpaid carers with lived experience

  • Representatives from local health and social care organisations.

The board provides strategic and operational oversight of the Our Commitment to Carers Action Plan, ensuring that the voices of unpaid carers help shape local services.

Learning Disability Partnership Board

The Learning Disability Partnership Board work hard together to make things better for people with learning disabilities who live in Tower Hamlets.  

About the board

Our Local Learning Disability Partnership Board (LDPB) meets regularly and brings together professionals and people with lived experience to promote the welfare and experience of adults with a learning disability to help shape our strategy and services.

The board discusses the key issues and concerns that are of importance to adults with a learning disability in the borough, working together to make a real difference to people lives[CK1] [AA2] .

Mental Health Partnership Board

The Mental Health Partnership Board works to make things better for people with a mental health issue who live and work in Tower Hamlets.  Service user priorities frame the board’s focus; ensuring that all work relating to the Mental Health Partnership Board is undertaken through the joint lens of reducing inequalities and promoting people participation. 

What is the Mental Health Partnership Board accountable for?

  1. Delivering improved outcomes and experience for adults living in Tower Hamlets with mental health needs, including young adults, working age adults, and older adults (including people living with dementia).

  2. Overseeing compliance with national ‘must dos’ such as those things mandated by the NHS Long Term Plan, and Tower Hamlets Adult Mental Health Strategy.

  3. Discussing and recommending how money will be prioritised and invested.

  4. Understanding the performance of services and reviewing whether existing arrangements represent good value for money.

  5. Leading initiatives and workstreams to deliver local priorities e.g. addressing gaps, unmet needs and health inequalities between groups.

Key principles for how the Mental Health Partnership Board will operate

  1. Each meeting will explicitly feature feedback and insights from service users and carers in relation to the topic / theme of the meeting.

  2. The meeting will use data to help members understand performance and pressures on existing services, as well as to measure outcomes and improvements.

  3. The meeting will use population health insights and data (including insights gathered through community and service user engagement) to understand health inequalities and unmet needs / gaps.

  4. The meeting is based on the principles of collaboration and power sharing.

  5. The meeting will facilitate co-design, involving people with lived experience, Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise organisations (VCSEs_ and other non-NHS partners in the design of service transformation programmes and commissioning intentions at a much earlier stage.

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As an ordinary NHW member, you will not need any formal training. As a coordinator, again very little training as help and support is provided on an ongoing basis by Tower Hamlets Neighbourhood Watch Association.
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Watches are not police-run groups. It is important to build a close working partnership with your local police such as the Safer Neighbourhood Team, and share with them all information relating to crime and other incidents in your area.

The police can provide information on the latest crime figures, operational support as well as crime prevention advice, whereas Watch members can provide valuable information and knowledge about the neighbourhood. Together, we have a powerful tool to tackle crime

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Online Watch Link (OWL) is a community alert messaging system used by Tower Hamlets police, council and NHW to help reduce crime and to keep residents informed of what’s going on locally.
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Generally, street signs can be obtained from the Tower Hamlets Neighbourhood Watch Association.

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Discuss your plan with your neighbours and the local police. Your neighbours must agree to participate and support the Watch. Then, you and your neighbours need to appoint a coordinator(s) whose job is to get scheme members working together.

Coordinators and members regularly talk about crime and disorder problems in the neighbourhood and how to best tackle them. Coordinators also stay in close contact with the local police to share information and to seek advice. The role, although not overly demanding is important as a Watch coordinator may be the only way to reach the elderly and vulnerable people on their Watch. 

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Neighbourhood Watch, is one of the biggest and most successful crime prevention schemes ever. At its most basic level, it is a system where a group of neighbours get together with the police and other agencies to reduce local crime and disorder (and perceptions of crime) in the bid to make your neighbourhood a safe and better place to live, work and play.

It's also about building community spirit and good relations. In London, we have expanded the reach to include the whole community, members of watches included. 

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The Neighbourhood Watch Network (NWN) is the national body representing Neighbourhood Watch. London Community Watch is the London body that supports every London resident.

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Public Liability Insurance or PLI free cover is available for Neighbourhood Watch schemes and associations in England and Wales. It is managed by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) working in conjunction with Ansvar Neighbourhood Watch Public Liability Insurance.

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