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Choosing Your Support. Providers – to showcase their services to the public. Service Users – to see what services are available, and try them out. LCC – to find out what services people really want, and what services need to be developed. 45 Providers. Choosing Your Support.
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Choosing Your Support • Providers – to showcase their services to the public. • Service Users – to see what services are available, and try them out. • LCC – to find out what services people really want, and what services need to be developed.
45 Providers Choosing Your Support • 200+ attendees • flower pressing, • arts and crafts, • head, hand & shoulder massages, • aromatherapy, • reflexology, • a Nintendo Wii, • salsa dancing lessons, • relaxation and centring workshops, • a digital photography masterclass, • cake decorating • and many more.
Choosing Your Support Research Project
About Just Services • A small co-operative • Work with groups and communities • A stronger voice for people using services • Work collaboratively with others
About the research • Partnership working with • West Leicestershire Mind • mosaic: shaping disability services • Self Advocacy in Action
About the research • Questionnaires • Wishing Tree • Focus groups • Sample group
Facts and figures • 46 people completed questionnaires • 57% of people using services attending the day • 18 ideas on the “Wishing Tree” • 38 people attending ‘focus groups’
FindingsPeople using services have … • Enjoyed many different activities in the past • Enjoy many different activities in the present • Have many aspirations for the future
Findings people using services want … • Help to source, access and start to use services • Clear and understandable information in a range of formats • To be treated with respect • Concerns about Personal Budgets to be addressed
RecommendationsThere needs to be … • Access to a wide range of activities and opportunities for people using Personal Budgets • Clarity about the ‘rules’ for Personal Budgets • More events like the one on 2 November 2010 • Availability of information
Recommendations continued • Opportunities for people who can’t get out easily • Pre-activity or service support • Making sure people don’t speak for others • Changing the way we work
What now? • Who gets the report? • How can we all use this? • Any questions?