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JNC coroners management side circular to local authorities - pay and next steps

In our last circular issued on 12 June we gave a further update on the coroner’s pay bargaining situation. Since then, the Ministry of Justice has shared with us correspondence between the CSEW and the Lord Chancellor, David Lammy MP. With their permission we share that correspondence with you as an appendix to this circular.

Change 5: Strengths-based leadership

Leadership is embedded in all of the High Impact Changes, but because it is so important, it has a change of its own as well. Research tells us that leadership is important to implementing strengths-based approaches , particularly when trying to make safeguarding personal. Leadership must have a strengths-mindset. This is not a project or a model but a way of working. It can be achieved through lots of small changes.

Change 4: Provide a working environment that focuses on strengths

We want to make sure that adult social care systems and ways of working are focused on promotion of strengths. This includes supervision structures that support a strengths-based focus. We want people working in adult social care to be able to have structured and supported spaces to think about how they work with people and whether these are promoting a person’s strengths. We want adult social care professionals to be aware of how their presence in a person’s life or home has an impact.

Change 1: Make sure that we talk to people, and about people, in ordinary and positive language

We want to make sure we are using language that focuses on people’s strengths. We need to change the language that people in adult social care use, so that it focuses on who people are, rather than on what is wrong with them. This means being careful about the words we use when we talk to people, about people, and particularly what we write about a person.