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What is
Involvement

'Involvement' - or 'service user involvement' - is the process of involving people who receive and use services in decisions that affect those services.

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Supporting
Organisations

We support organisations by promoting the benefits of involvement so you can involve your service users and support them to become 'involvement ready'.

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Supporting
Individuals

We can support you to become 'involvement ready' to ensure that your voice is at the centre of decision making processes affect the services you use.

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Become a
Member

If you're an individual or organisation and want to know more about how you can get involved with Leeds Involving People please become a member.

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Supporting Individuals

We can support you to become 'involvement ready' to ensure that your voice is at the centre of decision making processes that affect the services you use.

‘Involvement ready’ is a term we use to describe people who are empowered to attend meetings and events and have the confidence to speak in front of others about their views and experience in a professional manner so that they can help shape the services they use.

Leeds Involving People has a large membership base of people that use health and social care services and who have a broad range of views and experiences surrounding these. We bring our members together through a wide variety of involvement activities where they are able to share their knowledge and expertise and ensure their collective voice can support the improvement and co-design of services.

By becoming a member of Leeds Involving People we can offer you involvement training as well as a number of ways to get involved, such as:

  • Involvement Opportunities
    We work closely with our members to understand what services they have an opinion on and what type of involvement activities they have an interest in. That way, when involvement opportunities arise, we can match our members to the opportunities that suit them. We also work closely with other public bodies, voluntary organisations and service user groups that offer involvement opportunities so that we can signpost our members onto the ones that will be of interest to them.
  • Consultations and Surveys
    We work with public bodies to gain public opinion around their services when they are conducting consultations and surveys. Our members not only share their views and opinions on the subject, but work with public bodies to design the surveys, consultations and questionnaires in partnership. This way we can ensure they are easy to understand, are accessible to service users and are distributed to all sections of the community.
  • Involvement Training
    Our user-led ‘involvement ready’ training packages can help organisations and individuals develop their skills around effective involvement. Available to Service Users and their Carers, as well as service providers who work with service users, our training can be tailored to meet your specific needs.
     

Our involvement training for individuals will help you understand more about:

  • What involvement is and how you can get involved
  • How decisions are made that affect the service you use
  • Becoming actively involved in the decisions that shape services
  • Sharing your views and experience in a professional manner
  • Using your experience to help make involvement activities accessible to others
     

For more information about how to get involved or our involvement training please get in touch or click here to 'become a member'

Your Opinion Matters
 
Please help us understand the communities with which we engage by filling in a survey to tell us about what health and social care you have an interest in and how these services affect you. We would really appreciate your opinion, so please click here to fill in the survey.
 
We’re also encouraging people to fill in a short survey to help us understand how people wish to be involved and the local authority could improve the way it involves people. We would really appreciate your opinion, so please click here to fill in the survey.

Your Opinion Matters

have your say

If you are interested in getting involved with Leeds Involving People we'd be very grateful if you could take the time to fill in one or more of our short surveys to tell us more about how you’d like to be involved.