 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
 |
 |
Partnership
Partnership is about people and organisations working together. This section of the website has information on working together, including help for Learning Disability Partnership Boards and for teams and organisations working to become integrated. This page has information about what a Learning Disability Partnership Board is and what it does. The rest of this section gives more detailed help with different areas of partnership working. You
can also find expert help with partnership working on the Integrated Care Network website. This is at http://www.integratedcarenetwork.gov.uk/ |
|
|
 |
|
What is the job of the Partnership Board?
As part of Valuing People, the Government has asked each local council to set up a Partnership Board. Your Partnership Board meets regularly to talk about opportunities and support for people with learning disabilities in your area. Its job is to make sure that things get better for people with learning disabilities in your area. It should try to: Make services for people with learning disabilities better (Like the support you get to do
interesting things each day; support to live independently; and the opportunities to get around town), And Help you have the same chance to use the services everyone uses. (Like going to classes, going swimming, doing sports and going to the cinema) And Help different people to take part in the Board (Like you, family carers, housing organisations, leisure services, colleges, social services, health services and other groups) |
|
|
 |
|
Who is on the Partnership Board?
Working together needs different types of partnerships that involve both people and different departments and projects. Partnership Boards should bring together people who have a big say over local opportunities and services for people with learning disabilities - like council services, health trusts and other services and projects. It also needs to include people with learning disabilities and family carers. The Board should include people
from minority ethnic groups - like Chinese, African-Caribbean, Indian or Pakistani people. |
|
|
 |
|
What should Partnership Boards do?
The Boards should ask different services and projects to say how the things they do affect the lives of people with learning disabilities and their families. The things that these services and projects decide might be about:
- What choices and support there are for people with learning disabilities and their families
- How to give everyone a fair chance of getting the help they need
- How much money is needed to make services better
The Board brings together council departments and health services and other projects that give you support. This means that everyone can share information about what is happening in your local area. Everyone can agree what needs to be done and can check that the work they are doing fits in with what everyone else is doing. People at the Board might need to work together to get a new supported housing scheme or a new jobs project, for example. All these groups
still have the power to make their own decisions, but they should listen to what the Partnership Board has to say and then take action. This is because the Board helps everyone to see the 'bigger picture' about what needs to be done. So the Board can be a local "champion" for people with learning disabilities.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
