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Which way for partnership boards?
- Author:
- FYSON Rachel
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, 9(4), June 2009, pp.34-36.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Learning Disability Partnership Boards were established to provide oversight of the change necessary to ensure that the Valuing People objectives were met. This article reports on research carried out by Mencap to provide evidence regarding the role and effectiveness of the Partnership Boards. The key findings were that many people with learning disabilities still felt that not enough was being done to enable and support their involvement in Partnership Boards. Findings relating to inclusion, democratic processes, evaluation, impact on local service planning and barriers to change are discussed. The article concludes with recommendations to secure a positive future for Partnership boards.
Making valuing people work: strategies for change in services for people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- FYSON Rachel, WARD Linda
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 88p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
In its creation, Valuing People represented a radical departure from the traditional processes of Whitehall policy development. For the first time, people with learning disabilities were actively involved in the working parties from which the White Paper was developed; their views, needs, ambitions, and dreams were reflected in the final document. Subsequent to the White Paper’s publication, the involvement of both service users and family carers has continued to be an important element of the implementation process; in particular they have had an important role to play in Learning Disability Partnership Boards. These new structures within local government aim to bring together key local stakeholders, including people with learning difficulties and family carers as well as social services and health and a wide range of providers of services, in order to raise awareness of learning disability issues beyond the specialist services and plan for the implementation of the changes the White Paper required. Taking as its starting point the assumption that effective implementation of Valuing People would require significant changes to services at both a strategic and operational level, the Strategies for Change project posed a number of questions: How can local strategies be developed which reflect the needs, wishes and concerns of local populations? How can people with learning disabilities and family carers be involved effectively in the work of Partnership Boards? How can the types of support offered to people with learning disabilities be changed, to enable people to take more control over their own lives? What role should commissioners of learning disability services play in bringing about these changes? How have people with learning disabilities experienced previous changes to their support services and how can these changes be user-led?