Leeds Learning Disability
Partnership Board Strategy
2015 – 2018
‘Being Me’
Contents
Foreword from the Co-Chairs of the
Learning Disability Partnership Board
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What is the Leeds Learning Disability
Partnership Board Strategy?
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Three main themes
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Key principles
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Being Safe
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Being Well
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Being Connected
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Making it happen
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Foreword from the Co-Chairs of the
Learning Disability Partnership Board
Susan Hanley
Councillor Adam Ogilvie
As the co-chairs of the Leeds Learning Disability Partnership Board,
we are delighted to introduce our new strategy called
‘Being Me’.
It sets out the priorities for the Partnership Board and its members
over the next three years. We are particularly proud of this strategy
because everything in it has come directly from people with learning
disabilities.
There is only one version of this strategy. This is because it was
important to us that everyone is able to work from the same
document and be involved in all that we do.
People with learning disabilities told us that there are three main
areas that are important to them.
These are;
• Being Safe
• Being Well
• Being Connected
These are the sections of the strategy and will drive the work of the
Partnership Board.
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Foreword from the Co-Chairs of the
Learning Disability Partnership Board
The strategy will help to coordinate work in Leeds across different
organisations. Ultimately our aim is that it will make a real difference
to people’s lives over the next three years.
There are also many important things that we are working on in the
city at the moment that are local and national priorities. Such as;
Leeds Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2013-2015,
Winterbourne View, the Care Act 2014 and the Joint Health and
Social Care Self Assessment Framework to name but a few.
These have not been listed specifically in this strategy as this is
a tool for people with learning disabilities in Leeds to direct work
based on their priorities. However, the strategy has many themes in
common with the local and national work.
Finally we would like to say a very big thank you to all of the people
who have been involved in putting the strategy together; people with
learning disabilities, their families, advocates, third sector
organisations, members of the Leeds Learning Disability Partnership
Board, Leeds People’s Parliament and the Carers’ Reference Group
who have all brought valuable insights and made the strategy the
useful and practical document it is.
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What is the Leeds Learning Disability
Partnership Board Strategy?
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The Leeds Learning Disability Partnership Board Strategy is
our plan for the next three years. It says what is important to
people with learning disabilities.
It says how we are going to work together to make these
things better with the money we have.
Lots of people have been involved in writing this
strategy including:
• family carers
• people working in health
• people with learning
disabilities
• social care
• the voluntary sector
Ideas for the strategy came from groups like
• Leeds Learning Disability Partnership Board
• Leeds Learning Disability People’s Parliament
• People invited to a special strategy workshop
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Three main themes
The strategy has three main themes that people with
learning disabilities have told us are most important to
them:
1. Being Safe
2. Being Well
3. Being Connected
The Leeds Learning Disability Partnership Board launched the strategy
in April 2015. Every year, the Board will ask people with learning
disabilities to help check what has been done and change our plans
if we need to.
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Key principles
I have the
information I need
I make choices about
my life
I am supported in new
and creative ways
I have good
support from skilled and
caring people
I am a citizen of Leeds
and a part of my
community
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Being Safe
What does this mean?
Being safe means that:
• I live my life free from abuse and neglect and have the
full protection of the law
• I am involved in choosing my care and support
and saying what is important to me
• I am involved in saying if a service is good enough
• I am supported to take risks to live the life I want
• I am protected from hate and mate crime
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How we will do this
Safe Places
The successful Safe Places Scheme will be rolled out into
more areas of Leeds and to buildings that are open at
different times of day. People will be able to look up where
safe places are and plan their trips.
Personal safety training
More personal safety training will be available to people with
learning disabilities.
This training will include
staying safe
on transport
keeping money
safe
staying safe
when socialising
staying safe
online
keeping the
home safe
how to report
a crime
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how to deal with
hate and mate crime
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Good Lives Leaders
More people with learning disabilities
and family carers will be involved in
reviewing services to check that people
with learning disabilities have a good life.
This will be a very important part of the way
that the Council checks that services are
good.
Quality Standards Assessment
Providers will have clear standards to work to and will be
checked against these. This will begin with accommodation
based learning disability services in Leeds
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Being Well
What does this mean?
• I am supported to have good health
• I am able to get good information on health services and
what they can do for me
• I have good health checks, health promotion
and treatment
• Health care workers and services work well
together to give me good care
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How we will do this
Accessible information
More information about staying healthy will be easy to
understand. Health staff will have information to help them
to provide a better service.
Better health care
People with learning disabilities will have better health
care including health checks every year.
Other health services, like pharmacy, dentistry, podiatry
will make reasonable adjustments so that they are easy
to use.
A reasonable adjustment is a change that has been
made to a service so that people with learning disabilities
can use them like anyone else.
This may mean having a longer appointment time, easy
read information or other changes that mean services are
easier to use.
Health promotion
People with learning disabilities will get better
information and access to health screening and resources.
This will help them them to make better choices about
their health.
Carers will get more education and support to help
people be healthy.
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Being Connected
What does this mean?
• I have the chance to travel on my own
• I have the chance to
• Get a job
• Be a volunteer
• Go on training
• I am involved in setting up services that support
social activities and friendships
• I can get involved in interesting activities
because it’s easy to find out what is going on
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How will we do this?
Travel
More people will be trained to make sure that public transport
is safe and meets the needs of people with learning disabilities.
People with learning disabilities and their family carers will
deliver some of this training.
Employment, Training and Volunteering
We will work with local organisations to make sure
people with learning disabilities get more chance to
• Find employment
• Work
• Volunteer
Signposting
We will make it easier for people to find out
• What they can do
• What services they can use
We will work together on signposting to make this
happen.
Signposting means showing people where to
go for things they might need or find useful.
We will make sure there is good and easy to find
information for people with learning disabilities,
carers, and the people who support them.
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How will we do this?
Socialising
People with learning disabilities will be supported to talk to organisations about
what they want from their social life. These organisations will be encouraged to
offer more and different activities in the community.
This will help people build and maintain relationships that are important to them.
Making it happen
Over the next 3 years the partnership
board will look at all of the things
included in the strategy to check we have
done what we said we would do.
For more information please contact
0113 2703233
[email protected]
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