How will we spend the money?

1. How will we spend the money?

2. What is a commissioning strategy? Jargon

3. It is a plan that says how we will spend the money we have for learning disabilities The money comes from ….. The Council The Primary Care Trust

4. What is in the plan? It says what changes the government has made that will help us decide how to spend the money It says what changes have been made in Ealing that will help us decide how to spend the money

5. It says how many people with learning disabilities there are It says what health and social care needs people have It says where people live and what services they get

6. It has the views of people with learning disabilities It has the views of their family carers We had meetings in September to talk about what services people want

7. The plan says what services we spend the money on now It says which organisations provide the services It says how much the services cost It says how we check on the services we buy for people

8. The plan also says how we are going to change services so we can meet the needs of people in the future

9. How are we spending the money?

11. We spend over £25 million on health and social care services for adults with learning disabilities and their carers. We think that there are 1,016 people with learning disabilities aged 18-64. We know 800. We think there might be over 100 people with learning disabilities over the age of 65.

12. We spend 74% of our money on residential care and supported living. This is for 418 people. There are 230 people placed outside of Ealing. We also buy day services for lots of people in residential care homes.

13. There are about 500 people with high support needs There are 46 people with severe challenging needs About half of the people we know about are from minority ethnic communities

14. We spend over £2 million on day services. We know of about 400 people living with family carers. We spend about £1 million on respite services. About 140 families received breaks from caring last year.

15. How many people will there be in the future? We think there will be about 11 more young people with learning disabilities every year who will need adult services.

16. We think there will be about 5 young people with high support needs who will need adult services next year. We think this number will go up every year. We think there will be 1-4 young people every year who will use our challenging behaviour service.

17. What changes are we going to make in the next 5 years?

18. Housing and Support We will develop more supported living for people with high support needs and challenging needs We will develop more services in Ealing so people don’t have to go out of the borough

19. We will have some places in an extra care scheme for older people with learning disabilities We will have a floating support scheme for people in their own homes who don’t need much support

20. Day Services and Employment We will modernise our day services by getting more people into paid work and leisure activities We will move people out of Stirling Rd

21. We will move Learning Curve staff to Acton Town Hall We will develop new day opportunities for people with autism and challenging needs

22. Breaks for Carers We will develop a new respite service for people with challenging needs We will spend more of the carers grant on breaks for carers We will find a fairer way of sharing out respite

23. Choice and Control We will have an advocacy plan and develop different types of advocacy We will have projects to develop person centred planning for young people in transition and we will use multi media profiling

24. We will support more people to have direct payments We will have a project to develop individual budgets

25. Now tell us what you think?