Learning Disability Development Fund 2010/11

1. Learning Disability Development Fund 2010/11

2. What did we spend our money on in 2009 and 2010? • By the end of March 2010, we will have spent £554,000. • The funding panel have had reports about what this was spent on. • If you want to know more about how this money has been spent, I have written it down and I can give you a copy. 2

3. How much money do we have? • We will start the year in April with £362 779 saved up from other years. • We will have a new grant of £486,950 • This means that we will have £ 849 729 to spend. 3

4. What money do we have to spend in 2010 and 2011? We have things that we must pay for. These are: • Support costs for people on the Board including money to support the new 7 local partnership groups • Wages for our staff, like the manager, Support officers, Participation Officers and Person Centred Planning Co-ordinator 4

5. What money do we have to spend in 2010 and 2011? • Costs for Board meetings • Some of the money for the Transitions Co-ordinator job 5

6. We also have to pay for……… • The Person Centred Planning Team until October 2010 • The worker for Black and Minority Ethnic Communities until October 2010 • The things we promised to spend money on last year that haven’t all happened yet. • These are things to do with Relationships, Hate Crime, Housing and Employment. 6

7. The things we have to pay for • All of the things I have just talked about will cost £539 723 for 2010 and 2011 • This means that we still have £ 310 006 left to spend. • The Funding Panel have talked about this and have some suggestions about how we should spend that money 7

8. What do we think we should spend money on? • We are waiting to hear from the Valuing People Now team about if there are different important things to work on next year. • We still think that we need to do more work in Northamptonshire on the priorities from last year. • These were personalisation, health, housing and employment. 8

9. What do we think we should spend money on? • We also want to carry on making our Partnership Board work as well as it can • We think we should spend some money on the East Midlands Regional Priority which is “Things to do in the days, evenings and week-ends” 9

10. What do we think we should spend money on? • Things to do in the days, evenings or week-ends • We have also called this “joining in in your community” • This year we think we should spend £35 000 on this. 10

11. What do we think we should spend money on? • Making sure that people have equal rights to good health care is still very important. • Lots of good work is happening and we want this to carry on • This year we think we should spend £20 000 on this. 11

12. What do we think we should spend money on? • Involving Everyone • It is very important that everybody is involved. We think we should ask people to bid for small amounts of money for exciting ways to make sure people are involved • This year we think we should spend £30 000 on this. 12

13. What do we think we should spend money on? • We want to make sure that people have good skills to be joint leaders. • We think we should run a Leadership Course for people with a learning disability similar to the Sharing the Knowledge course for family carers • We think we should spend £40 000 on this. 13

14. What do we think we should spend money on? • We have worked hard to train lots of people in person centred working. • We need to make sure that all of the work on personalisation is person centred so we think we should spend some more money on person centred planning, but not the same as this year. • We think we should spend £125 000 on this. 14

15. What do the we think we should spend money on? • Our worker who is looking at the needs of people with learning disabilities and their families from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities may need a bit more time. • We think we should spend £9 000 to perhaps keep her working for a few more months 15

16. What do we think we should spend money on? • We have written our employment plan and the Board talked about it last time. When the plan has been agreed by everybody we will need some extra money to help make more jobs happen • This year we think we should spend an extra £23 000 on this. 16

17. What do we think we should spend money on? • We have done lots of good work on this but need to do more. Our plans all need updating. • This year we think we need to spend an extra £18 000 on this. • The people working in housing will need to decide how best to spend this money to meet the targets in next years plan 17

18. What do we think we should spend money on? We also need to save some money for redundancy costs for staff. This is because we may not need all of the staff when the Valuing People Strategy finishes in 2012 We will need £10 000 for this and some more next year 18

19. What were all of those things? • Joining in in your community 35 000 • Health 20 000 • Involving Everyone 30 000 • Leadership Course 40 000 • PCP 125 000 • BME worker 9 000 • Employment 23 000 • Housing 18 000 • Redundancy costs 10 000 19

20. How much does that cost? • If you add all of these things up it costs £310 000which is what we have for this year • This means that if we get our normal grant next year, we may still have a little extra money to spend next year on top of the things we have to pay for 20

21. What next? • These are the ideas. • We need to vote now to see if you agree with them • If we all agree, we will ask the lead people to make sure they use the money to work on the outcomes we write for next years Northamptonshire Partnership Board plan. • If we don’t agree, we will need to talk again about other ways to spend our money. 21

22. Any Questions? • Time for voting 22