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Getting a Life
This section of the website is about people with learning disabilities having interesting things to do, good friends and being included.
It includes information about day service modernisation and community development.
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What does Valuing People say?
Government Objective: To enable people with learning disabilities to lead full and purposeful lives within their community and to develop a range of friendships, activities and relationships.
Many people with learning disabilities do not take part in community activities.
They do not have many friends except for people that are paid to be with them, their family, or other people with learning disabilities who they live with.
People who go to big day centres do not get chance to have their own hobbies or train to get jobs.
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What does Valuing People say will happen?
- Five year programme to change day services by 2006 - and money from the Learning Disability Development Fund to help this. Day Service Modernisation Plans need to be written by February 2003.
- The Learning and Skills Council to make sure people get an equal chance in education
- Action to make it against the law to discriminate against people with learning disabilities on public transport
- The councils' leisure plans to include people with learning disabilities
- New ways of making services for parents with a learning disability better
- Department of Social Security staff who sort out Disability Living Allowance benefits to get better training on working with people with disabilities
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