Transcript Item 3 - Learning Disabilities Board presentation

Health and Well-Being Board
Operational Partnership Board update
(3rd Tier)
Learning Disability Partnership
Board
15th September 2011
The Aims
• Make sure that the priorities of Valuing
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People Now are implemented in Ealing
• People with learning disabilities have the
same rights, choices, and opportunities as
everyone else
• Bringing together local plans and
partnerships
• People with learning disabilities and family
carers play an active part in planning,
developing and checking services
The structure
• Meet 6 times a year including an annual review
day
• 4 subgroups focusing on the priority areas of
Valuing People Now
– Better Health
– Better Housing
– Make My Day (employment, day
opportunities, workforce development and
hate crime)
– Transition
• Carers Together
• Power Group
Measuring success
Local level
– Subgroups report progress to the
board on an annual basis
– Annual review
National level
Partnership Board report
Health Self Assessment
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4 top targets and 25 sub objectives
3 levels of achievement
Benchmark local progress against the
national framework
Annual Partnership Board Report
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Report on how we are improving services and
working toward the 3 priorities in Valuing People
Now:
1. Health
2. Housing
3. Employment
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Our report submitted to the Learning Disabilities
Observatory in June
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Observatory will collate and publish all reports,
statistics, examples of good practice and common
themes
Health – The self Assessment process
Health – How well are we doing?
Assessment Ratings
Target
1. Moving people from long term NHS care
2. Making sure patients with learning disabilities
can use the same health services and get as good
a service as everyone else
3. Making sure people in NHS services are safe
4. Developing services for those needing more
help to be healthy
09/10
10/11
Health – what is going well
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Treat Me Right continue to work with WLMHT
and Ealing Hospital to support them to make
reasonable adjustments
Learning Disability Awareness training
Learning Disability Champions on most wards
Discharge protocols with Ealing Hospital
353 Health Action Plans
Health Action Plans for young people
Think Healthy event
Easy read information
CQUINS for the hospital and local mental health
services
Exposure group and well women’s group
Hanwell dental surgery and Featherstone Clinic
A Fitness programme in partnership with
Extreme Ability/Active Ealing.
Health – what needs to improve?
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Less than half of GP surgeries in Ealing are
signed up to do annual health checks – only 59
completed last year
No GP representation on health subgroup or the
Partnership Board
Better awareness of needs of patients with
learning disabilities in primary care sector
All new strategies and services need to include
the needs of patients with learning disabilities
More people need to access health screening
Access to data about patients with learning
disabilities – safeguarding, disease register
Transfer of NHS commissioning body –
commissioners will need to understand the
needs of people with learning disabilities
Employment – What’s going well
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70 people in part time paid employment (less than 16
hours)
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42 people in paid employment (16+ hours)
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164 people in voluntary work / work experience
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Apprenticeship scheme
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Ealing pathways pre-apprentice programme
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The Future Jobs Fund
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Disability Volunteer Scheme
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Accession social enterprise established as an independent
company and is putting proposals to the local authority and
West London Mental Health Trust to build local enterprises
Employment – the challenges
• Less jobs
• Public sector was one of the
largest employers of people with
learning disabilities
• Mainstream Back to Work
schemes unlikely to benefit
people with learning disabilities
• Less funding available to
provide on the job support
Housing – where people live
• In Ealing - 715
• In other parts of London 60
• Out of London -149
Housing – What’s going well
• New supported living service for
people with challenging needs
opened in August
• Well established Shared Lives
Scheme
• New extra care scheme will offer
places to older people with learning
disabilities
• 24 more people in supported living
• 18 people are living in their own
homes bought though shared
ownership scheme
Housing – the challenges
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Access to social housing – introduce quota for
direct lets for tenants with learning disabilities
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Including the needs of people with learning
disabilities in housing strategies, reviews and
housing developments
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Engaging with private landlords
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Some staff in the housing department don’t
understand the needs of customers with
learning disabilities
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Achieving value for money for residential and
supported living placements
Other developments
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Day opportunities – planned shift from centre
based to inclusive community based model
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Links with adult learning
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Increasing the number of changing places
toilets in the borough
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Improved inter-agency working to support
young people in transition
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Over 30 people trained as 3rd party reporters
to support people with learning disabilities to
report hate crime
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Working with children’s services – approved
provider list for play and recreation for children
and young people
How can the H&WBB help?
• Support proposals to develop
Accession Social Enterprise
• Support inclusion of social
capital requirements in
procurement process
• Support quota for social housing
• Support appointment of a GP
Champion
• Support inclusion of needs of
learning disabilities in
mainstream strategies and
service developments
Any Questions?