Dignity In Care

The Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP) was created in 2005 by the integration of a number of initiatives supporting the development of services to help improve people’s lives.

Commissioned by the Department of Health and other agencies CSIP aims to achieve this by supporting the implementation of national policy for local benefit. We work with communities, systems and organisations that are engaged with the health and social care needs of:

• people with mental health problems
• people with learning disabilities
• older people
• children, young people and families
• people in the criminal justice system; and
• the families, carers and supporters of these groups.
  
  

Our main objectives are to:

• promote the improvement of services to lead to better performance and higher quality care for the people who use them
• support people to live more independently, by promoting more choice, improved access, and greater control for people in their dealings with care providers; and
• facilitate system change (for example, the reconfiguration of health and social care organisations and the improved relationships between statutory and non-statutory sectors)
  
  

CSIP provides support through eight regional development centres (RDCs) and a range of national programmes.

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