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Work in Progress - Partnerships
North Lanarkshire - Living Their Plans
1. Getting to "Live Your Plan"
2000 marked the start of North Lanarkshire’s Development Partnership
with the NDT on Transitions. Anne O’Bryan is the lead consultant
for this work, which is being put forward for a COSLA Quality Award.
More important than any award though, is the success that the people in
the Partnership have had in identifying and setting up or getting school
leavers into things that they want to do – "accessing valued
alternatives" in the jargon.
2. Involving Young People
The Partners made a manageable start in Year 1 and are building on this
strong foundation. Year 1 involved all summer 2001 school leavers from
North Lanarkshire schools for people with "significant learning disability"
and a small number of young people with less complex needs.
By Year 2 the Partners were ready to include young people who were in
schools outside North Lanarkshire as well. Priority was given to those
people who were likely to get a poor service when they left school if
good planning was not done with them.
The Year 1 school leavers are now "living their plans". None
of these people chose to use ‘traditional’ day services. All
have individual services using Independent Living Funds, Direct Payments
(self directed services) and Social Work budgets.
Did it Cost a Lot?
The Partners have found that the average cost of people’s plans is
the same as more traditional day centres costs.
Everyone involved thinks it is worth every penny.
What Next?
The Partners are enthusiastic about the work and all they have achieved.
It has not always been easy, but together they found ways to go forward.
They plan to continue the work so that all school leavers in North Lanarkshire
can ‘live their dream’.
My thanks to Morag Dendy for telling me about this Partnership.
South Ayrshire – Involving People
This Development Partnership will focus on person centred approaches to
day services.
South Ayrshire have commissioned NDT to run a series of joint learning
events with parents and staff. These events are to further support the
development of partnership working in the implementation of South Ayrshire's
learning disability strategy.
The events will include sessions on person centred approaches, alternative
day services, respite, money and partnership working.
This follows on from South Ayrshire's award winning strategy development
work. South Ayrshire Council, with colleagues from Health, won a Guardian/IPPR
Public Involvement Award for the work on stakeholder conferences for people
with learning disabilities. These awards are given to agencies that are
consulting people in innovative ways and involve the public in decision-making.
South Ayrshire also won a COSLA award for this work.
The NDT supported South Ayrshire in setting up and running these stakeholder
conferences and in producing a good practice guide for involvement. This
guide is now available.
The Partnership is at the planning stage. Two successful workshops on
Social Role Valorisation have been held with all day centre staff –
in Ayr and in Girvan. George Sapiets led these workshops. It is likely
that the next steps will include work on Meaningful Days and on person
centred planning led by Molly Mattingly.
Cornerstone Community Care
Cornerstone Community Care - a registered charity that provides supportive
services to people with learning disability throughout he North East and
West of Scotland - has undertaken two reviews with Quality network. They
are now considering a development partnership with the NDT.
The partnership would develop a quality assurance system based on the
principles of Quality Network - person-centred outcomes-focused and participative
self-review.
The quality system would also use quantitative measures developed by the
NDT, Eric Emerson and the North West Training and Development Team to
compliment the qualitative findings.
The quality assurance system would be developed and piloted in partnership,
to ensure that it meets Cornerstone's individual requirements.
If you would like more information on any of the NDT initiatives
in Scotland, please contact Julia Cowie, Programme Manager, NDT in Scotland,
326 Albert Drive, Glasgow, G41 5DZ. Tel:0141 429 5892.
Last updated :
5 April 2002
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