From Progress to Transformation

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Valuing People Now

• From Progress to Transformation
• What it says - the Main Points
• Hilary Linssen
• Valuing People
• Implementation Manager

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• Valuing People Now
• It does not change policy
• It adds a few things
• It says how change can happen
• It sets priorities for the next 3 years

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• The Big Priorities for 2008-2011
• Personalisation
• What people do in the day, in the evening and at
  weekends
• Health
• Housing
• Making it happen

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Personalisation

• More choice and control
• about how you live your life
• and the support you get
• More people with a direct
• payment or personal budget
• Most people have a person
• centred plan

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What People do in the Day (in the evenings and at
weekends)

• People deciding what
• they want to do
• More people in paid work
• More people doing college
• courses they want
• Acton to make this happen
• by all Government departments

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Health

• Primary Care Trusts will
• Know about the health
• needs of people with
• learning disabilities
• Plan health services that
• work for people with learning
• disabilities through Partnership Boards
• Most people will have a
• health action plan and regular
• health checks

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Housing

• More people to be tenants
• and owners of their own
  homes with all their rights
• Councils will include the
• needs of people with
• learning disabilities in
  their housing plans
• Extra help to help close
  campuses

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Other important things for 2008-2011

• Advocacy and rights
• Partnership with families
• Including everyone
• People as local citizens
• Transition to adulthood
• The staff that support
• people (workforce)

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Advocacy and Rights

• More money spent on
• Advocacy
• Every local Authority area
• will have a user-led
• organisation that includes
• people with learning disabilities
• More people with learning
• disabilities who are national
• and regional leaders

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Partnership with Families

• More people listening to family carers
• Family carers getting
• more support so they can
• live their own lives
• and stay healthy
• More breaks for families
• Family carers will know
• more about their rights

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Including Everyone

• Not missing anyone out
• People with complex needs
• People from ethnic
• Minority Communities
• People with autism
• People involved with the
• criminal justice system

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People as Local Citizens

• Action to stop Hate Crime
• Better public transport
• People have more friends and relationships
• Community support for
• parents with learning
• disabilities

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Transition to Adulthood

• Every young person in
• transition will have a person
• centred plan to plan the
• services they need
• Young people will get a
• job or go to college when
• they leave school
• More young people will
• get a Direct Payment or
• personal budget

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Improving the Workforce

• More staff to take Learning Disability
  Qualification (LDQ)
• People and families as
• paid staff trainers
• Staff training to include
• people working in the
• community like the
• NHS, police, shops,
• transport

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The Very Top of the list from 2008 - 2011

• Making it Happen
• National and local leadership
• Better commissioning (planning and buying
• services)
• Checking how we are
• doing

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National leadership

• National Forum
• Task Force
• Ministers oversight
• group
• Valuing People
• Support Team
• National Director

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Local Leadership

• Partnership Boards to look at
• how they work so they can do
• a better job of leading change
• Learning Disability
• Development Fund
• to go to local
• authorities

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Better Commissioning(planning and buying
services)

• Local Authorities will be in
• charge of planning and
• buying all social care services
• No-one to be an in-patient
• unless they are being assessed
• or treated because they are not well
• Less people will be sent to live
• away from their local area

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Making it Happen

• Checking How We Are Doing
• 2 new cross-government
• performance indicators
• NHS and social care
• performance frameworks
• to be improved

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Checking how we are doing

• Partnership Boards will have
• good information about how
• things are going with Valuing
• People now each year
• The NHS will be reporting on
• the health of people with
• learning disabilities
• We will know how many
• people have paid work and
• live in their own homes

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What next?

• Tell us what you think
• Send your views to the Government by 28th March
• Say what you think or what groups think
• Make Valuing People happen now