Ategi is ready to take on the challenges of 2023
Shwmae Pawb/Hello Everyone,
So we're into February already! How many New Year’s resolutions are still going strong I wonder? If you’ve waivered or faltered, don’t give up. If it was important to you at the end of last year and it’s still niggling away, then deep breath, a bit of planning and start again. You CAN do it.
That is the really special part about working for a charity. We aren’t here to make profits and big bonuses for private company owners. We are here to make a real difference; and you do every day.
To all the people we support and our Shared Lives carers, I hope you enjoyed the Festive Get Togethers at the end of last year. It was wonderful to bring people together with carers and people we support all in the same space; to feel united. And we should be united as ultimately we all have the same goal. To do "our bit" (whatever that bit is) to help people with additional needs live their best life. That is the really special part about working for a charity. We aren’t here to make profits and big bonuses for private company owners. We are here to make a real difference; and you do every day.
I’m looking forward to there being more Ategi events this year and we have already been busy putting together a schedule for the year ahead - we will share plans and dates soon.
Regardless as to position, role or how long we’ve been doing our jobs we should all be aiming for continuous improvement and consider whether doing something differently might be better?
Each new year brings new challenges and like all organisations providing social care services I have no doubt we will face our own set of challenges this year to keep us busy; there will be funding cuts to fight; health inequalities to battle against; relationships to build with new people supported; new colleagues to welcome and induct; recruitment campaigns to attract more carers; discrimination cases to speak up against and much more. But we can do that. Ategi does it every year and we do it well. I am really looking forward to this year. With 10 calendar months ahead of us, April sees the beginning of a new financial year and will see us move into year 2 of our strategy to support people to live their lives, their way. Regardless as to position, role or how long we’ve been doing our jobs we should all be aiming for continuous improvement and consider whether doing something differently might be better? It might or it might not! At the events last year I shared the 5 values that underpin how we operate. These are really important to me and I ask you to read through and self-assess your own actions and behaviour against them in everything you do. Be brave enough to notice if you could something differently next time.
Thank you. Kate
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Kate Allen
Kate joined Ategi after seven years as Chief Executive at Autism at Kingswood, a charity and support provider of services to Autistic adults and young people in England.
Driving continuous improvement in the delivery of services is compulsory to Kate who says: “The service we provide directly affects the lives others, therefore every person working in social care has an enormous responsibility to do the absolute best they can to ensure people receiving our services get the highest quality of support possible.”