Aiming High for Disabled Children

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Aiming High for Disabled Children in the East
Midlands
Sue Dryden
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• 2007
• Regional Aiming High Workshop
• Linking national and local priorities
• Audit of Standard 8 
• Parents Workshops                         

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Access to rehabilitation therapy services
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• REGIONAL PRIORITIES IDENTIFIED BY THE STANDARD 8
  AUDIT
• Timely therapy services
• The core offer to disabled children and their
  families
• Reform of community equipment and wheelchair
  services
• Improving provision of short breaks
• Transition

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ACTIONS

• Aiming High Regional Board chaired by Director of
  Childrens Services
• Working Groups
• - multi-agency
  
• - chaired by clinicians
• - linking in to other initiatives e.g.
  Better Care Better Lives

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• AIMING HIGH FOR DISABLED CHILDREN
• THERAPY AND EQUIPMENT GROUP
• Terms of Reference
• Remit
• To identify best practice across the region to
  inform and influence commissioning of Childrens
  Therapy services to meet childrens needs and
  national targets.
• To review current therapy workforce across the
  region, identify future workforce needs both
  within therapy and multi-disciplinary teams
• To scope the challenges in accessing timely and
  appropriate equipment for disabled children and
  their families
• To provide networking opportunities for Heads of
  Therapy services across the region
• To facilitate 2 way communication amongst
  therapists by disseminating information,
  strategic documents and ensuring feedback is
  shared with the regional board.
• Membership
• The membership will be drawn from
• All constituent NHS organisations
• Their statutory and voluntary agency partners
• Representatives from existing regional
  forums/groups
• Parents and/or Carers
• Frequency

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Networks recently re-organised to ensure
integration, prevent duplication and ensure links
to GOEM