Changing the future for people with learning disabilities

Customers, carers and service providers have been working together to change the future of services for people with learning disabilities.

The Learning Disability Partnership Board held a ‘Development Day’ at Bury Town Hall to review progress and plan for the year ahead.

Working groups were set up last year to look at three themes: Living and Working (to look at housing and employment), Having a Voice (to better include people with profound needs and those from black and ethnic minority backgrounds), and Person Centred Planning and Health.

Achievements made since then include incorporating quality standards into contracts with providers of learning disability services, advertising “Micro-Enterprises” as future careers for people with learning disabilities, and setting up a customer forum to give customers a stronger voice in shaping the services they use.

The board will now evaluate all the suggestions made during the development day, and it thanks everybody who took part.

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Press release issued: 22 March 2013.