Easier to read version of the consultation paper on priorities for learning disabilities over the next three years. It is a cross-government consultation which sets the agenda across a range of issues, including health and well-being, housing, employment, education and community inclusion. The key areas it will focus on are: the personalisation agenda - having choice and control through individual budgets, direct payments, person centred planning and advocacy; what people do - helping people to be socially included in their local communities, with a particular focus on paid work.
Easier to read version of the consultation paper on priorities for learning disabilities over the next three years. It is a cross-government consultation which sets the agenda across a range of issues, including health and well-being, housing, employment, education and community inclusion. The key areas it will focus on are: the personalisation agenda - having choice and control through individual budgets, direct payments, person centred planning and advocacy; what people do - helping people to be socially included in their local communities, with a particular focus on paid work.
Subject terms:
housing, learning disabilities, personal budgets, personalisation, person-centred care, social care provision, decision making, direct payments, education, employment, government policy;
The Government has published a consultation paper on its priorities for learning disabilities over the next three years. It is a cross-government consultation which sets the agenda across a range of issues, including health and well-being, housing, employment, education and community inclusion. The key areas it will focus on are: the personalisation agenda - having choice and control through individual budgets, direct payments, person centred planning and advocacy; what people do - helping people to be socially included in their local communities, with a particular focus on paid work - better health - ensuring that the mainstream NHS provides full and equal access to good quality healthcare and that specialist healthcare services are modernised; access to housing - ensuring that people have access to housing that they want and need with a focus on home ownership and real tenancies; making sure that change happens - making learning disability partnership boards more effective.
The Government has published a consultation paper on its priorities for learning disabilities over the next three years. It is a cross-government consultation which sets the agenda across a range of issues, including health and well-being, housing, employment, education and community inclusion. The key areas it will focus on are: the personalisation agenda - having choice and control through individual budgets, direct payments, person centred planning and advocacy; what people do - helping people to be socially included in their local communities, with a particular focus on paid work - better health - ensuring that the mainstream NHS provides full and equal access to good quality healthcare and that specialist healthcare services are modernised; access to housing - ensuring that people have access to housing that they want and need with a focus on home ownership and real tenancies; making sure that change happens - making learning disability partnership boards more effective.
Subject terms:
housing, learning disabilities, personal budgets, personalisation, person-centred care, social care provision, decision making, direct payments, education, employment, government policy;
The resource consists of information that councils will find helpful when seeking to enable people with learning disabilities to receive and use direct payments. It includes information on decision-making; on the management of a direct payment; on the provision of appropriate and accessible information; and on the support that people may need. It brings together existing information from a variety of sources, as well as using new information drawn directly from interviews with council direct payment staff, direct payment support groups and people currently using direct payments.
The resource consists of information that councils will find helpful when seeking to enable people with learning disabilities to receive and use direct payments. It includes information on decision-making; on the management of a direct payment; on the provision of appropriate and accessible information; and on the support that people may need. It brings together existing information from a variety of sources, as well as using new information drawn directly from interviews with council direct payment staff, direct payment support groups and people currently using direct payments.
Subject terms:
independence, interagency cooperation, joint working, learning disabilities, local authorities, personal assistants, service users, social services, access to information, carers, decision making, direct payments;