Council committee agrees Your Choice Barnet five-year contract
On 16 June 2016, Barnet Council’s Adults and Safeguarding Committee agreed a new contract for Your Choice Barnet (YCB). The council’s current agreement with YCB is due to end on 31 January 2017 and the [...]
Living our values at Supported Living
A colleague from the Barnet Learning Disability Service had some kind words for Shirley Sanderson and the Supported Living team at Harold Court and Agatha House. She said: "Following my meeting with yourself and the [...]
A right Royal afternoon at Flower Lane
We’re definitely heading for one of the wettest June months on record, but the sun managed to come out at just in time for the Flower Lane Queen's 90th birthday celebrations on Friday 17 June. [...]
Consultation – Future of adult social care in Barnet
Barnet Council are now consulting on the future of adult social care in the borough and are seeking views on two areas; a new way of delivering adult social care in Barnet; and a new [...]
CommunitySpace given summer spruce-up by volunteers
Your Choice Barnet's CommunitySpace was given a spuce-up by partners Hammerson as part of a volunteering event at the centre in Edgware. Coinciding with celebrations for the Queen's 90th birthday, customers enjoyed an afternoon of [...]
YCB promote volunteering at the Arts Depot
Your Choice Barnet (YCB) marked Volunteering Week by promoting the benefits of volunteering at an event held at the Arts Depot in North Finchley on Wednesday 8 June. As well as promoting and recruiting volunteers YCB staff got the [...]
Improvements to Rosa Morison Hydrotherapy pool make a big splash
There have been some exciting new additions at Rosa Morison, our day service for adults with profound and multiple learning and physical disabilities. For the past few months, the centre has undergone some improvements to [...]
Partnership working helps customers step into work
Your Choice Barnet customers had the opportunity to build crucial steps into work recently with a little help from partners Barnet Mencap, Barnet & Southgate College and Volunteering Matters. After completing a six week ‘Return [...]
Barnet Homes Annual Review 2015
The Barnet Homes 2015 Annual Review, which features Your Choice Barnet, is now available to download. Click here to get your copy.
London Symphony Orchestra comes to Flower Lane!
A year has passed since a number of the service users of Flower Lane did a special performance with the world-renowned London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) on stage at the Barbican. But this year the roles [...]
Flower Lane gardens get a ‘fix-up’
Your Choice Barnet customers and staff at Flower Lane are looking forward to a long summer of activities in their newly landscaped sensory gardens, thanks to staff volunteers from Hammerson plc doing the work as [...]
CQC rate Valley Way “good”
Valley Way scored "good" on each spection criteria. You can read the inspection summary here, the full report here, and an easy-read version of the report here.
New Integrated Social Care Direct – information for health and social care professionals in Barnet
Starting on Monday 8 June 2015 we will have a three-part Integrated Social Care Direct service: Social Care Direct will still be the single entry point for residents and professionals, contactable via telephone 020 8359 5000 [...]
Community Space have a Spring Fair to remember
On Thursday 14 May Your Choice Barnet's Community Space held their annual Spring Fair. The event was the perfect opportunity for service users to get in to the spirit of spring by socialising and taking [...]
Rosa Morison gets funding boost for new eye-gaze equipment
Rosa Morison recently had two reasons to celebrate when they were awarded funding for top-of-the-range Eye Gaze equipment, and also raised over £500 with the help of Claridge's Hotel, London. The Friends of Rosa Morison [...]
We continue to negotiate to end the YCB dispute for the benefit of service users and staff
YCB is pleased to announce we are now predicting a better financial outcome for Your Choice Barnet this year and believe that we will have a small surplus by the end of the financial year. [...]
YCB services remain buoyant despite strike action
YCB staff who rejected Unison's strike action on Tuesday 23 and Wednesday 24 February went the extra mile to continue to provide support to the majority of its customer base across YCB's six schemes. A [...]
Tracey Lees leaves The Barnet Group to pursue unique opportunity
Tracey Lees, Chief Executive of Barnet Homes since 2008 and Your Choice and The Barnet Group since 2012, is leaving to become Chief Executive of Wandle Housing Association. Tracey has worked for more than 30 [...]
Your Choice Awards 2014 – It’s all about independence!
The Your Choice (known as YCB) Awards on Monday 8 December 2014 for our service users and parent/carers took place at CommunitySpace and Christmas was very much in the air, too, with festive food like [...]
Praise from one of our customers’ relatives
Dear all Carers, We would just like to put into writing our thanks to you all for the continuing care that you have show for our brother James. He has had quite unsettling time lately [...]