2 An Evaluation of Creative Care Commissions
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To consider the evaluation of the creative care
commissions and the key principles for future commissioning
– Kate Sahota and Emily van de Venter
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Kate Sahota, WCC
lead commissioner for family wellbeing introduced this item. It was
reported that the Coventry and
Warwickshire Creative Health Alliance (CWCHA) was established in
2019 to strengthen the links between the creative, health and care
sectors across the sub-region. Funding had been secured to develop a creative health social prescribing
system and the total fund available for this programme over three
years was £891,000. The start of the programme had been
delayed due to the Covid pandemic. An outline was provided of the
activity undertaken, the submission of proposals and the creative
projects delivered in 2020:
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Armonico Consort: Artists recorded videos of singing
workshops which were shared with individuals, residential homes,
and care homes to watch and engage with.
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Arts Uplift: Four subprojects, with online and
offline aspects, supported groups of people through dance, creative
writing, music and song writing, and hand sewing.
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Escape Arts and Sitting Rooms of Culture: Production
of a physical booklet and digital resources to facilitate
creativity, delivered to participants including hospital patients
and staff.
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Live & Local: Ten creative partnerships were
facilitated between artists and Warwickshire communities with
various creative outputs (e.g. a short film and a
book).
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My Voice Lifts My Soul: A series of weekly group
online sessions focussed around Singing for Lung Health, attended
by participants living with respiratory conditions.
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Open Theatre: A series of weekly group online
sessions for young people with learning disabilities focussed
around drama and resulting in the creation of a short
film.
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Starfish Collaborative: An online group journaling
project for new mothers, online digital media sessions for a group
of young people, and an offline collation of community
art.
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Sundragon Pottery: Individuals and charity
organisations were provided with the resources needed to create
with clay, along with provision of a second follow-on
box.
The projects had been evaluated by Coventry
University and the findings were appended to the report. They were
summarised thematically under the following headings:
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Impact of creative arts on health and
wellbeing
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Mobilising, delivery and evaluating creative health
projects
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Lessons learnt and project legacy
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Measuring the impact
The report set out the financial implications and
the cost for the creative health programmes commissioned during
this period totalled £80,000. A further report would be
provided on the progress of the broader suite of commissioned
creative health services in November 2021. A short video was
displayed to provide supplementary information on the
creative care commissions.
Questions and comments were invited from the
Board.
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Sir Chris Ham asked how this related broadly to
social prescribing and how the projects would be sustained. Kate
Sahota gave an outline of the social prescribing commissions
undertaken as a first phase, the six in place now, how services
were aligned within WCC and the close work with GPs.
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Councillor Roodhouse spoke of similar initiatives
previously, which had subsequently been discontinued. For the
further report in November he asked that this include detail on how
these initiatives would be embedded in future commissioning
processes. The approach should be adopted for the ...
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