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Whose Shoes?® has received great reviews throughout the country and is widely renowned as a genuinely useful tool for helping people to think about the bigger picture, and how personalisation can be realistically achieved"

Leicestershire County Council

Whose Shoes?® was an excellent tool to use as part of our Inter-Professional Learning Workshops with nursing and social work students. It really helped the students to explore each other’s roles and it helped to create really useful discussions regarding partnership working"

Sarah Booth
Practice Education Facilitator, Community Health Stockport

Really useful learning tool which helps creative and practical thinking”

Rose Bradley
Practice Trainer, Worcestershire County Council

People have universally enjoyed the game”

Jo Yelland
Lead: Putting People First and Integration, Plymouth City Council

It stimulated a lot of very good discussion, it raised a lot of issues and concerns from the team which were aired and clarified”

Carol Rowe
Workforce Development Manager, Bradford City Council

Whose Shoes?® has been very well received in Newham. In July (2010), we will be focusing on Self Directed Support as part of the Mayor's town show. We will be using the board game to assist members of the public to ask questions and participate."

London Borough of Newham

The poems were fab and funny”

Gill Manning-Smith
Programme Manager, Adult Social Care Transformation, Buckinghamshire County Council

It’s a fantastic idea which worked well during training sessions with social work teams”

Steve Morgan
Workforce Development Officer (Adult Provider Services), Gateshead Council

It went down very well and provided an excellent way of EVERYBODY getting involved and talking about issues and it was FUN”

Maggie McNamara
Commissioning Officer, (Self Directed Support), Nottinghamshire County Council

We really liked the idea that you weren't playing in competition with each other, but as one team, driving to co-deliver changes to adult social care."

Laura Walker
Communications Advisor, Adult Transformation, Newcastle City Council

... a very different way to engage in conversations / capture issues with regards to Transformation."

Laura Walker
Communications Advisor, Adult Transformation, Newcastle City Council

Feedback from the staff reference group was very positive. The game generated a lot of discussion from different points of view and helped staff to see the bigger picture. Discussions were more informal and interactive than generally occurs at large meetings and staff found the experience enjoyable and beneficial…"

Sandrina Mapletoft
SDS Commissioning Officer, Nottinghamshire County Council

Middle managers are looking for answers - but answers will emerge as we move forward. It is all about professional judgements. This is an excellent tool to help us find those answers and make progress”

Learning and Development Manager
Kent County Council

The feedback was very good – we particularly liked the way in which the cards prompted lots of discussion (too much at times!) and that even people with no prior knowledge of personalisation were able to contribute. We are using the game as part of our training programme"

Kerry Davies
Senior Development Consultant, Walsall Council

Whose Shoes?® is the best facilitation tool I have seen in over 30 years in social work"

Dorothy Hall
Independent Social Worker and Practice Assessor

I've played Whose Shoes?® to learn what it was all about and found it extremely useful. It's a really useful tool to help spread the personalisation message!"

Melanie Turnbull
Commissioning Policy & Planning Officer (Personalisation) Durham County Council

We are still using Whose Shoes?® in personalisation training with internal and external staff - the feedback they give is very positive and it breaks the ice during the training session"

Helen Tindell
Workforce Planning and Development, North Lincolnshire Council

The Whose Shoes?® material is exceptional in its ability to promote questions about both the process and our understanding of personalisation and its outcomes”

Ray Massey
Training Coordinator, Learning & Development Team, London Borough of Redbridge

Whose Shoes?® should be a mandatory exercise for all involved in personalisation!"

Community Engagement Officer
NW MBC