PAPER B
Purpose : For Information
Committee
: PARTNERSHIP BOARD FOR HEALTH AND
WELL BEING
Date
: 22 APRIL 2003
Title : FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE VALUING PEOPLE
IMPLEMENTATION GROUP
REPORT
OF THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT PRIMARY CARE TRUST
PLANNING SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
Background
Since ‘Valuing People’ – the national plan for
Learning Disability Services was launched in March 2001 the Partnership Board
for Learning Disability has been working to take services forward on the Isle
of Wight.
Developing
ways of involving people who use services and carers
The
Partnership Board wanted to find new ways of involving people in how we plan
services and check they are working well.
The Board has taken this forward in several ways. Members of the Board have thought about how
we run our meetings and about things we can do so that everyone can join in
with the meetings. We now produce our
agenda and notes in a more accessible style.
We use less words, try to avoid words that are difficult to understand
and use picture symbols. We discuss
which pictures we will use with everyone in the group.
We also
put the notes of our meetings on to a tape which some people find suits their
needs better. (We will circulate examples
of our agenda and notes at the meeting).
Before the main meeting of each Partnership Board
starts, the chair of the Board meets with the people who use services on the
group to go through what will happen at the meeting. At the meeting we use red and green cards that people can use to
show if someone is saying something in a way, which is difficult to
understand. A red card makes us think
more carefully about what we are saying.
We arrange transport to help people get to the
meetings if that is helpful. We also
pay people their expenses for giving up their time for our meetings.
The
Valuing People Group
The Valuing People Group have been meeting since
August 2001. Their first annual report,
attached as an Appendix, was published last August and shows how much work they
have done.
The Valuing People is mostly made up of people who use services, some carers and some people who work in learning disability services.