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Level 1 - Working In Partnership Who should be involved and who is responsible? Working together needs different types of partnerships that involve both people and different departments and projects. These should be:
- People with learning disabilities
- Family and carers of people with learning disabilities
- Staff in day services, supported housing and other places
- Local councils
- Health services
- Independent projects that might support you to speak up for yourself, offer you training (like on computers) or help you find a job
- Colleges and the people who pay for education and training
- Connexions - who works with all young people to help them make the move from school to the adult world
- Employers
The Board should include people from minority ethnic groups - like Chinese, African-Caribbean, Indian or Pakistani people.
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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. 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
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- 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
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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. |
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Level 2 Level 2 tells you more about:
- What is the purpose of partnership working?
- What different types of partnerships are there?
- What are the benefits of working in partnership?
- How do we know where to start?
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