This is an exciting new project in the Borough of Lewisham, following on from the Greenwich P2P website which has been established for two years. The two website are now linked in order to provide a varied list of personal assistants to suit customers' needs.
The Marketplace offers you the opportunity to buy or provide high quality social care and support at affordable prices. Similar to an online supermarket, the P2P Marketplace offers customers the freedom to search for and book support and care services that are right for them; meaning vulnerable people (and their families/representatives) have true choice and control in managing their own support and living their life the way they want to.
People who want to purchase care & support are in control of:
· The person they wish to hire
· The care they want to receive
· The hours they want care and support
People who want to provide care & support are in control of:
· The hours they work
· The types of care they want to provide
· The places they are happy to travel to
· The rates they want to charge
We ensure that all professionals and services advertising through this site are legitimate providers, hold relevant insurance cover and have undergone DBS checks where necessary.
All bookings are private arrangements between the customer and chosen provider and both customers and providers are advised to make sure they are personally comfortable with each other's credentials before service commences.
We are looking for workers and service users.
contact Rosie on 020 8301 8454 if you want more information or email rosie.burbage@greenwichcarerscentre.org
Lewisham Person 2 Person Marketplace
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Lewisham P2PMP
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Re: Lewisham Person 2 Person Marketplace
This looks really interesting, and I wish it all success, especially as, with other members of my family, I'm involved in providing and organising personal care for a couple of elderly relatives, with its inevitable balance of voluntary and paid for caring
If it helps, anyone, here also is the web page for Lewisham
http://www.p2pmp.co.uk/Lewisham/p2pLewisham.htm
I'll try to go easy on the theoretical stuff, but the other main reason this interests me is that it includes a real marketplace. So on the page for care providers it has this:
This contrasts with an approach which Lewisham have promoted for many years, Timebanks, in which services, in essence, must be provided at a fixed price, and whichI wrote about here. Economists would predict that, without price flexibility, the system will not work, and indeed the independent empirical evidence, that I have found, is that they do not.
OTOH, looking at the bottom of the web page for this new service, I find
Microjobs have a massive potential
If it helps, anyone, here also is the web page for Lewisham
http://www.p2pmp.co.uk/Lewisham/p2pLewisham.htm
I'll try to go easy on the theoretical stuff, but the other main reason this interests me is that it includes a real marketplace. So on the page for care providers it has this:
(My emphasis)As a provider, the P2P Marketplace offers you a specialist advertising platform, directed specifically to those individuals that would require the type of services that you offer. It also offers you a centrally managed booking and invoicing system; saving you time and allowing you to concentrate on delivering a quality service.
You are able to set your own hourly rate or fee, although it would be in your best interest to make sure this mirrors the 'going rate'.
This contrasts with an approach which Lewisham have promoted for many years, Timebanks, in which services, in essence, must be provided at a fixed price, and whichI wrote about here. Economists would predict that, without price flexibility, the system will not work, and indeed the independent empirical evidence, that I have found, is that they do not.
OTOH, looking at the bottom of the web page for this new service, I find
and then some googling takes me to this article by Tim Harford, Radio 4's "Undercover Economist"The Marketplace is sponsored by the Royal London Borough of Greenwich and delivered by the Greenwich Carers Centre in partnership with Slivers of Time.
Microjobs have a massive potential
So, really interesting, and I don't just wish it well, I think it could be a real force for good.Rowan is now strategic director of a company called Slivers-of-Time, and he sees a missing opportunity: to bring the sophisticated market-making technology to the least glamorous end of the British labour market – to the poorest, least-skilled and most excluded workers.
A typical Slivers-of-Time worker is looking for a couple of hours’ work here, a couple of hours of volunteering there, either because personal circumstances make it hard to commit to regular hours, or because a full-time job isn’t available. A Slivers employer could be anything from a supermarket to a local council, a call-centre to a café, looking for a little assistance with the lunchtime rush, a product launch, or staff holidays. Slivers creates a searchable database, almost in real time, to allow an employer to find suitable workers at short notice, for a reasonable rate and with the right qualifications – anything from a food safety certificate to a driving licence.