The Next Steps for Valuing People

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The Next Steps for Valuing People Helen
Mycock Regional Development AdvisorEast Midlands
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• Lets Remember 2000
• Little self-advocacy
• Families excluded
• No Direct payments, In Control or Individual
  Budgets
• Main model was residential or nursing care
• 18 long stay hospitals open and NHS campuses
  expanding
• It was about services - not life

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• Lets Remember 2000
• Little Partnership planning
• No Government advice or focus on how to do
  things
• Only the Department of Health thought about
  learning disabilities
• Only Social Services and the NHS thought it
  was their job
• No Valuing People

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An Example
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Lets Celebrate

• The people now living in their own home
• The places that have introduced health
  checks
• The people who are in paid jobs
• People with learning disabilities being
  present
• The National Forum influencing policy
• The Government wanting to refresh
  Valuing People

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Examples of Valuing People in 2007

• The Getting a Life Project
• The Hate Crime Initiative
• Progression Through Partnership
• Advice on primary care health checks
• Tomorrows Leaders Stage Two
• In Control across most of England
• Person centred transitions across most of
  England

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New this Month

• Launch of commissioning guidance on
  specialist learning disability health
  services
• Launch of Mansell report
• Capital and revenue money to help close NHS
  campuses

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First Stage Capital Money for Campus Closure to
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BUT There are huge challenges for the
future. Why do we need Valuing People Next
Steps?
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Focus on the Big Issues

• People having choice and control over their
  services
• Better Health
• What people do in the day and Paid Jobs
• Better Housing
• MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL
• Making the Valuing People Vision Happen

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Choice and Control

• The Personalisation agenda
• Person centred planning at its heart
• Individual Budgets is more that just about
  budgets

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Better Health

• Getting the NHS to take the health inequalities
  of people with learning disabilities seriously
• Health checks for everyone
• Death by Indifference and the Independent
  Inquiry

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• What People Do During the Day
• Getting away from arguments about day centre
  closures
• Promoting social inclusion
• Work as the first option

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Better Housing

• More choice and control over housing
• Closing the Campuses
• A level playing field for the independent
  sector
• Access to mainstream housing programmes

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Other Important Issues

• Advocacy help to be more effective
• Families support to be leaders
• Hate Crime taking it seriously
• Transport equal treatment
• The Workforce support LDQ and wider action
• Transition person centred transitions
  everywhere

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Making It Happen

• Partnership Boards. They are our best bet.
  Lets make them work
• Commissioning Get the local authority
  properly in the lead
• Money Matching the money to the demand
• Performance Learning from Cornwall and
  Merton Sutton

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The Next Steps with Valuing People

• Out (I hope) within a month
• Three months consultation
• A final report in the early Spring

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Lets Build On What We Have Achieved In The Last
Six Years