This page has useful papers about partnership, and information about where to find out more. The Community Learning Disability Team review toolkit is at the bottom of the page. The Integrated Care Network has more information about partnership. Their website address is http://www.integratedcarenetwork.gov.uk/
Getting Control of My Life (PDF 1.5 MB) is a book for people with learning difficulties that was written at the same time and goes together with 'Deciding Together'. This is a scanned copy, so not great quality, but you can order it from The Foundation for People with learning Disabilities at www.learning disabilities.org.uk. It costs £4.50.
Co-chairs event report This is a report from an event held to talk about how co-chairs of Partnership Boards work. Co-chairs are when 2 people share being the chair of the meeting. At this event were co-chairs where 1 of the co-chairs was a person with a learning disability.
This is a report from the Integrated Care Network. You can link to it here or order a copy by emailing publications@integratedcarenetwork.gov.uk with your name, organisation, address and contact telephone number
Speaking Up! run a Service User Parliament. The Service User Parliament is a way for people with learning difficulties to have a voice in the way services are planned and run.
30 elected 'MPs' represent 1500 people with learning difficulties right across Cambridgeshire.
Speaking up have also made a video called Real Power. Find out more from their website www.speakingup.org
Working with words have made a pack about running good meetings. Its called Count Us in. It comes with a booklet, video and a CD. You can download the booklet here or contact working with words by e-mailing workingwith@words01.fsnet.co.uk or ringing 020 88 55 66 44.
Decision Making This is a paper for people whose job it is to make Learning Disability Partnership Boards run and to make sure that the things it agrees happen. It was written by the Institute forApplied Health and Social Policy (now the Foundation for People with learning disabilities) for the Valuing People Support Team.
This is the Implementation Guidance for Valuing People that came out in August 2001. It said who should be on each Partnership Board.
Integrated Working and Governance - A discussion paper - this paper was written for the Integrated Care Network, by the Health Services Management Centre (University of Birmingham). It brings together different discussions so far about the integration of childrens services.
Valuing People said that Partnership Boards should review the role and function of Community Learning Disability Teams. Here is a paper we wrote to help them do this.
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