WHAT IS A LEARNING DISABILITIES PARTNERSHIP BOARD

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WHAT IS A LEARNING DISABILITIES PARTNERSHIP BOARD
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SO WHAT IS A PARTNERSHIP BOARD?
Valuing People said that Partnership Boards
are To take responsibility for local delivery of
the White Paper, led by the local Council and
with the active participation of all key
stakeholders.  
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• Partnership Boards were
• Formed at the end of 2001
• Must be led by senior figure from Local Authority
  
• In Newcastle this is a Councillor in other
  places it might be the Head of Services ( Big
  Boss) at Social Services
• Must have a Co Chair who is a person with
  learning disabilities

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WHO ARE THE BOARD?

• The Partnership Board has to have certain
  agencies and groups represented These include
• Social Services
• Health services
• Housing

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Children services Lifelong learning and Leisure
ALL OF THESE PEOPLE MUST BE SENIOR ENOUGH TO
MAKE DECISIONS ON BEHALF OF THEIR SERVICES AND
MOST IMPORTANTLY People with Learning
Disabilities Carers
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THE BOARDS THREE MAIN JOBS

• Providing Leadership
• Make sure Change happens
• Doing the Important Things Not Trying To Do
  Everything

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Providing Leadership

• THE QUESTIONS THE BOARD MUST ASK
• Do we need new or different staff?
• What buildings or other resources can we use?
• How should we do things differently ?

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Providing Leadership

•  Decisions the Board has to make include
• What needs to be done for each part of Valuing
  People
• What is the best way of doing things?
• What should we stop doing?
• What money can we use?

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Providing Leadership
Decision making in Partnership Boards - the
Board is not an executive body in its own right
BUT it is very important   This means that Board
decisions cannot force other organizations to do
things.   Instead the Board has to work by
persuading people and by people accepting they
should do what the Board asks.
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Providing Leadership
This will happen when everyone is involved in the
Boards decisions and people realise that those
decisions are better than ones being made by
organizations acting on their own. The
Partnership Board should be the place everyone
looks to for leadership in making change happen.
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Making sure change happens

• Agreeing What Should be Done First
• The Partnership Boards job is to agree
• what should be done first
• who is going to go away and
• do things
• when and how they will report back

SUB GROUPS
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Making sure change happens

• Make sure we have the right people on the board
  who can make change happen and be creative
• Unless the right people are on the Board, then it
  will become a talking shop

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Making sure change happens

• The Board should check up that
• people are doing what they said they would do and
  that
• the lives of people are changing for the better

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Doing the Important Things Not Trying To Do
Everything

• The Boards job is to agree what should be done
  first and what happens next .
• It is NOT there to
• get involved in the detail of how the work is
  then done.
• Make decisions about how services run day to day
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• The Board will probably have sub groups working
  to it who will report on how they take a part of
  Valuing People forward
• Most areas will have sub groups for each
  objective of Valuing People like
• Health
• Housing
• Changing Day services
• Person Centred Planning

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These will be people who really know a lot about
that area experts who can really get to the
bottom of what is needed all sub groups must
also ask people with learning disabilities for
their views AND finally Each Board usually has
a worker who makes sure everything happens around
the Partnership Board - someone you can call if
you want to know more about Valuing People and
the Board
In Newcastle this is Bill Norman Telephone [phone]