Valuing People

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Valuing People

• Introductions
• Key messages
• Progress to date

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Key messages

• covers all aspects of life
• takes a lifelong approach
• what users and carers told us
• cross -government
• for all people with a learning disability

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Key messages

• tackle social exclusion-give
• better life chances
• ensure value for money
• reduce variation
• partnerships - with people with learning
  disabilities and families
• local multi-agency partnerships

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Key messages

• promote person centred approaches
• improve transition for young people
• raise service standards and practice

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Key messages

• Four key principles
• legal and civil rights
• independence
• choice
• social inclusion

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Key Messages

• long term implementation-at least 5 years
• architecture for delivery
• Task Force and users forum
• Government
• National Care Standards Commission
• SOCIAL CARE Institute for Excellence

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Key Messages

• architecture for delivery
• Support Team
• local Partnership Boards

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Key Messages

• health action plans
• closing long stay hospitals
• modernising day services
• employment
• housing
• education

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Progress to date

• implementation guidance 31 August
• Director of Implementation-Rob Greig
• Regional Support team working
• advocacy funding projects
• learning disability awards framework

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Progress to date

• launch of Mencap telephone information and
  helpline
• National service framework for children-transition
  and disability
• Person-centred planning guidance

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Progress on Valuing People

• guidance now issued on
• housing
• adult placements
• health action plans
• physical interventions
• residential care and housing

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Progress on Valuing People

• We have now issued all the guidance we said we
  would in Valuing People
• The Task Force, National Forum and Valuing People
  Support Team are in place. Regional Forums are
  starting up

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Progress on Valuing People

• We have distributed the Learning Disability
  Development Fund, advocacy money and funded the
  National Helpline
• Framework for delivery is now in place.

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Reports

• Learning Disability Task Force Report Making
  Things Happen published in January 2003
• Government report on learning disability due late
  March. Will respond to Making Things Happen

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What Next?

• We are now thinking about the important things
  for the policy branch to do next.
• We think there are three important things to do

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What Next?

• Work with other Government Departments
• Measure whether Valuing People is working
• health issues - for example supporting health
  action planning

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Restrictive Physical Interventions

• David Ellis
• Department of Health

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Background

• No Guidance
• Limited Patchy Developments
• Mansell Reid reports
• Different approaches

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Developments

• BILD Yellow Book
• Feedback from the field
• Consensus of need
• Move to statutory Guidance
• Standards for Training
• Legal Issues update

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Context

• Scandal and Ministerial commitment to change.
• Joint work DH/DFES
• Valuing people
• Care Standards Act
• New era of service provision

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A rights based approach

• Taskforce
• National Forum of People with Learning
  Disabilities
• BILD easy guide to RPI
• Disability Discrimination Act DRC
• Human Rights Act
• National Care Standards Commission

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Local Services Provision

• No secrets - POVA/POCA
• A safer place
• New mental health legislation
• Proposed legislation on capacity
• New Sexual Offences Bill
• General social care council

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Local Service Provision

• Least restrictive settings
• Non bed based approaches
• Out reach support services
• Provide for behavioural and offending needs
• Increase competence of local workforce-LDAF

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ALL means ALL

• Diversity of provision reflecting choice and
  community based services
• Partnership boards
• Health Action Plans, Care programme, must be
  person centred
• Joined up, holistic and must include physical
  health and lifestyle.