An easy-read guide

Transforming

Care & the Joint Learning

Disability Strategy

The Suffolk Learning Disability Partnership has

made a plan. This is called the Joint Learning

Disability Strategy 2015-20, and was agreed by

Suffolk’s Health & Wellbeing Board.

Joint Learning

Disability Strategy

The Learning Disability Partnership is responsible

for setting priorities and making sure people

are doing a good job.

It’s important that Transforming Care and the

Strategy work together.

Self-advocates and family carers helped

shaped the key messages and priorities. This is

called co-production.

Joint Learning

Disability Strategy

Work and

Purpose

Choice and control over my

Life, Support and Money

Information, Communication

and Advocacy

Staying Healthy,

Safe and Well

Person Centred Support

as I move in Adulthood

Family, Friends, Pets

and Relationships

Choosing where I live and who I live with

The strategy has a 7 Workstreams, each with a

Workstream Lead and a Champion (either a

family carer or self-advocate). The Workstreams are:

The Strategy is also looking to create a young

person network, to support and encourage

co-production with young people.

Joint Learning

Disability Strategy

The Strategy involves support providers through

the Provider Network.

The Strategy involves support workers and

personal assistants through the Support Worker

and PA Network.

The Strategy involves self-advocates through

Suffolk People First events.

Joint Learning

Disability Strategy

Each Workstream has projects and priorities

that help work towards the vision of the Joint

Learning Disability Strategy.

The Transforming Care Partnership Board

influences the activity of all Workstreams and

makes sure there is a focus on the Transforming

Care ambitions.

A role of the Transforming Care Partnership

Board is to pull together the activity and

delivery in all of these areas to make sure

we’re all working together.

The Transforming Care Plan in Suffolk reflects

the priorities in the strategy.

Joint Learning

Disability Strategy

Transforming Care is for people of all ages and

includes people with autism without learning

disabilities.

The Joint Learning Disability Strategy is for

people with learning disabilities over the age

of 14.

It’s important that all this work links together,

and that there are no gaps.

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Joint Learning

Disability Strategy

People with learning disabilities will be included

in all redesign decisions within Transforming

Care through Suffolk People First events.

The Learning Disability Partnership Board will

have regular updates on progress from the

Transforming Care Partnership Board.

Updates will also be shared through Learning Disability Partnership Board meetings.

The My Life, My Future projects are working to

improve Suffolk County Council funded

community resources for adults, listening to what the Joint Strategy says.

Joint Learning

Disability Strategy

The projects are around things that help

someone live a good, ordinary life in Suffolk.

Supported Housing

Respite, Short Breaks

and Support at Home

Day, evening and

weekend activitiesBetter Assessments

Better Transitions

Suffolk’s co-produced definition of Co-

production is that: “Co‐ production is people,

carers and professionals working together as

equal partners to: design, develop,

commission, deliver and review services,

information and advice”.

Co-production

Co-production is a way of working where

people who use services, family carers, service

providers and other professionals work together

to create services which works for them all.

We worked together and came up with what

co-production means in Suffolk.

Co-production

Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust have co-

produced a plan of action which responds to what the Strategy says.

An ‘Intensive Support at Home’ team will work

with people in the community stopping them

from going into hospital or supporting an early return home.

Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust,

sometimes called NSFT, provides mental

health and learning disability and autism

diagnosis services in Norfolk and Suffolk.

This was produced in co-production with people from across Norfolk & Suffolk.