Learning Disability Partnership Board

Choice and Control - update(LD Strategy 2011 – 2014)Doris Sheridan – October 2013

Learning Disability - People Group

LD Strategy Action Plan - refresh 2013

Choice and Control1. Developing Personal Budget

amounts for individuals:

• People with a Learning Disabilities are now being assessed more quickly - (receiving a more responsive service)

• The Direct Payments Support Team helps to support people by visiting and explaining the benefits of having a Personal Budget.

• The new Adult Disability Quality Assurance Panel has an oversight of this personalisation process. (The panel will be reviewed in January 2014).

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2. Access to the right information, advice and support

• 6 X Community hubs have now opened across Warwickshire to provide advice and support about services.

• The hubs have been reviewed.

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3. Talk to providers to help them develop the market

• There was a providers meeting on 19th September about opportunities to develop Supporting Living.

• The event was well attended. Tendering

opportunities will start in November, and be awarded in April 2014

• WCC staff also attend the Providers Forum. These happen every two months, to talk about the market for LD services.

• Market facilitation provider workshops have also been arranged. These are on-going.

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6. Everyone including new customers offered Personal Budgets

• All new customers and those being reviewed are being offered Personal Budgets, resulting in an increase in the number of people receiving their own Personal Budget.

• The Quality Assurance panel meets weekly to consider all new assessments and reviews to ensure that everyone is offered a personal budget. Staff have been given training about Personal Budgets.

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6. Have quality and performance standards

• The Peer Review Programme is being developed. People with LD will be reviewing services from April 2014.

• These peer reviewers are to be built in to the contract monitoring process – so people with LD will have a say in which services are performing the best, and areas where they could improve.

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