Members | Bradford Alliance on Community Care (BACC)

Point of Contact:	Neal Heard
Address: .	Unit 37, Carlisle Business Centre, 60 Carlisle Road Bradford, BD8 8BD
Telephone:	01274 481590
Fax:	01274 487596
Text:	07791 286178
Email:	neal@bacc.uk.com
Website:	www.bacc.uk.com
Who are you:	BACC seeks to ensure that people from a wide variety of disadvantaged communities get their voices heard in the strategic planning and development of services that affect their lives, particularly in the health and social care sector.
Aims & Objectives:	Channel of Information and Communication To provide an appropriate channel of information and communication between the statutory services and voluntary sector groups, user groups and carer groups, seeking effective and appropriate methods of working ensuring that individual and group voices are heard.
Consultation	To consult through BACC members, community and voluntary organisations interest groups, service users and carers
Networking and support	To provide an appropriate network to share knowledge, experience and local and national information, and to give support to groups working in the health and social care sector. To highlight and support existing good practice.
Advocacy	To promote the interests of service users and groups from a variety of communities of interest including physically disabled, deaf community, visually impaired, older people, people from ethnic minorities learning disabled, mental health problems, homeless people and refugees and asylum seekers.
Training	To provide training for service providers in the statutory & voluntary sectors e
Forums	To bring together user groups by setting up or linking with existing forums. To support public involvement and participation in the NHS.
Individual Projects and pieces of work	To carry out commissioned pieces of work that are consistent with BACC’s aims.
Awareness	To heighten public awareness of health and social care issues and services
Activities & Timetables:	• To organise quarterly ‘open meetings’ around health and social care issues, targeting a particular community of interest for each event. • To Publish a quarterly newsletter • Work with a variety of fora to further the organisations aims