Making Communication Better at the Partnership Board.

1. Making Communication Better at the Partnership Board. • At the Partnership Board everybody is equal. We are all important. • It is important that we can all join in and say what we think. • To make sure we do this we all need to use easy words and no jargon

2. I want to speak • Please hold up the yellow card if you want to speak. • Please do not speak until you are asked to do so by the Chair.

3. On the back of the yellow card is the word NOW. • Please hold the card this way if you want to say something about what has just been said. • Please be careful which way you hold up the card. NOW

4. Wait, I don’t understand • Hold up the red card when there is something you don’t understand, or if people are talking too fast. • Anyone can hold up this card at any time. As soon as you see the red card, please stop talking.

5. Word Police • Making things easy to understand is a difficult job. So we have an expert to help us. That is the Word Police. • This is a person whose job at the meeting is to help make it easy for everyone to join in. • Today’s Word Police is...

6. Wait, I don’t understand Word Police • The Word Police is a hard job. Please help them by stopping when they hold up the red card. • Anyone can help by suggesting easier ways to explain difficult words. • Please remember, the Word Police is there to help us all.

7. Lead Commissioning UpdateMarch 2011 Surinder Peberdy - Service Manager.

8. About this presentation. • Surinder Peberdy. Service Manager. • Strategic Commissioning and Service Development – planning and buying services • Leicestershire County Council • 0116 2957917 • Surinder.Peberdy@leics.gov.uk • I will to tell you about: • The 2 big things the Commissioning Board talked about at the last meeting • The big thing the Commissioning Board will talk about at the next meeting • Please tell me what you think. I will let the Commissioning Board what you think is important.

9. We talked about the Joint Commissioning Strategy • This is the plan that tells us how we will buy health and social care services for adults with learning disabilities. • We are now making action plan. This tells us all the important things that needs to happen by April 2012 • The plan includes: • getting people more independent and living in the community • Getting better health care • Making sure it supports Personalisation The Commissioning Board will agree the action plan at the next meeting Plan

10. 2. We told the Board about the work we have been doing for Supported Living • This is where a person gets the support they need to live as independently as they can in their own home. • We pay a provider to give this support. We have a list of providers that we have agreed to use. They have all been checked by us. This is called The Supported Living Framework. • We had 23 supported living projects and we had to decide the best providers to support these projects. This is called a mini- tender process. Self advocates were involved in this.

11. We only have 5 projects left to find the support for. As well as doing mini-tenders we are looking at different ways for people to get their support. One way is for people to have a personal budget and buying the their own service. The Commissioning Board are happy with the work we are doing. The Board have agreed the way in which we do our mini-tenders.

12. The next big thing the Commissioning Board is going to talk about • As you know we need to make savings. • In February the Commissioning Sub Group had a special meeting to plan how we could make savings. • We are looking at how we can get more services for our money to meet the care needs for young people and adults with high support needs. We need to make sure this service is still good and that it meets each persons needs.

13. Please let me know if the Partnership Board have any comments about this plan? • We are working hard to plan for the best service. We are doing this with staff from adult, children and the health service. • We are getting all the information we need to make sure we know: • how we are spending the money now • where we need to spend the money in the future

14. Healthy relationships Developing a guide for staff to make sure everyone can be supported to have healthy relationships

15. About this presentation. • Miranda Graham • Valuing People team • 0116 305 7983 • Miranda.graham@leics.gov.uk This presentation is to tell the City and County Partnership Boards about the work of the Relationships Group. The group are working to write a good, clear guide for staff, to make sure they support all people with learning disabilities to have healthy adult relationships. The presentation tells you what we have done, why we’re doing it and what we need to do next.

16. Background • Valuing People says that people with learning disabilities should get good support to develop healthy adult relationships. • Valuing People Now says that people with learning disabilities should have the choice to have lots of different relationships. • Both say that good services will support all people with learning disabilities to meet lots of different people and have healthy relationships.

17. Background • People with learning disabilities and families have told both the City and County Partnership Boards that this is really important. • Lots of people with learning disabilities have told us that they are lonely and they want to have more friends, boyfriends and girlfriends. • Some people with learning disabilities have said they want a service like Stars in the Sky – a dating agency for people with learning disabilities.

18. Background • Workers from social care in the City and County have worked together with workers from the Valuing People teams and workers from Health to write a good guide for staff. • We decided to start with this because lots of people need some staff support to meet new people and make friends. Staff told us they want to help people have healthy relationships, and they wanted to be sure they got this right. • Anyone can use the guide, but we were thinking about staff when we were writing it. • We will make sure the guide is simple, clear and practical, so all staff will be able to use it to support people really well.

19. What the guide is for • The guide will help staff support people with learning disabilities to have lots of different relationships. This should include having boyfriends and girlfriends, getting married and having children. It should also include having really good friends, getting on with your neighbours and people in your community • It’s not about making people do anything they don’t want to, it’s up to the person what kind of relationships they want.

20. What the guide is for • The guide will help staff to support people well. It will help them feel confident that they are doing this part of their job well. It will help them be clear what they should do, and what they should not do. • This guide will help everyone to understand that it is everyone's job. We should all support people with learning disabilities to choose for themselves the relationships they think are right for them. • Relationships can be difficult. When we fall out with someone it can make us very upset. This shouldn’t stop people from having relationships like everyone else.

21. What the guide is for • It is important that people with learning disabilities choose for themselves the relationships they think are best for them. All services and organisations should agree to support this. This is highlighted in the guidance as one of the most important things. • All services and organisations should tell their staff that it is their job to support people to have relationships. They should also encourage their staff to be confident enough to support people to have the relationships they choose for themselves.

22. Things the guide will include To make the guide as good as possible, we think it needs to include these things: • The laws and rules that are used around the country • Who provides the different types of support and how we will work together • The different types of relationships that people might choose • Where to get specialist help • Keeping people safe and trying to make sure they can make their own choices • Helping people to take risks as safely as possible • Keeping people healthy • Supporting people when they are unhappy

23. Things the guide will include • Training for staff • Including and listening to families and carers • Supporting people with high support needs • Supporting people from black and minority ethnic communities • When and how to use books, magazines, DVD’s and videos and other things, about sex and relationships • Making decisions and choices • Confidentiality (not telling other people unless we are worried about the person’s safety) and keeping good notes • Making sure we are doing a good job • Making sure we are treating people fairly

24. Things we still need to do • We need to finish writing the guide. • We need to ask staff from services what they think of the guide. This will help us make sure we get it right. • We need to ask people with learning disabilities and families and carers what they think of the guide too. • We need to get all the important groups and services to agree to use the guide when it’s finished. We hope we can do this through the Partnership Boards. • We need to talk to the people who plan and run staff training. We will work with them to make sure there is good training for staff to use the guide.

25. What will happen when the guide is finished • The group writing the guide is called a ‘task and finish group’. This means the group was set up to do an important job. Then once the job is done, the group stops. • We think it would be a good idea to collect useful books, DVD’s, CD’s and other things. These would be used to help people with learning disabilities to think about relationships and get the relationships they choose. • We think it would help to have things to help families and carers and workers too. To use when they are supporting people to have healthy relationships.

26. What will happen when the guide is finished • We think it would be a really good idea to set up 2 other groups. • One to work with people with learning disabilities to put together good information so they can have healthy relationships. • The other group would work with parents and carers to make sure they have good information and support too. • It will be up to the Partnership Boards to decide if they want to do this.

27. Please help us with this work • What would be a good way to check that staff from services think the guide is good? • What would be a good way to find out what people with learning disabilities and families and carers think of the guide? • When the guide is finished, will you help us get all the services and organisations to agree to use it? • What should happen next – information for people with learning disabilities or information for families and carers?

28. Thank you for listening. Do you have any questions?

29. About this presentation. • Saeed Seedat Strategic Planner (Making services better at a high level). • Leicestershire County Council. • 0116 3057449. • saeed.seedat@leics.gov.uk • ‘Engagement’. This means how the Council asks people who use services and their carers and people who work in health and social care about how we can make services better! • The Council is changing the way we ask people about what they think about services. • This is just to update the Partnership Board about where we are at and what we are doing. You could put a key symbol or picture here, to show the main subject of your presentation

35. Transitions Transition Sub Group

36. We want to make sure everyone knows what to do in transition for families • There are lots of changes for every-one in their jobs

37. Work still to do • Put the Pathway in writing so everyone knows what to do when working in Transitions • There is no money for Transitions from the Government so we are trying to find ways to carry on the good work

38. Work still to do • We want the Transitions and Person Centre Planning job to continue • We would like more training for people on Transitions

39. Thank-you for listening Are there any questions?