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Recommendation 1: The current
national vision is not good enough. A debate needs to take place
about the scope and range of our alternative vision together with
and on behalf of all people with learning disability.
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Recommendation 2: Government should
ensure compliance with outcome targets on employment, housing and
health for people with learning disabilities; to be met by local
authorities and their partners on a compulsory basis through the LAA/PSA
mechanism.
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Recommendation 3: There should be
new funding partnerships between children’s’ and adults’ service
focusing on transitions and budget transfers.
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Recommendation 4: Issues for young
people with learning disabilities should form part of all local
authorities’ 14-19 strategies.
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Recommendation 5: All
authorities should be required to maintain a robust (up to date)
information base. This would embrace an inter-agency database that
would give clear information about the needs of, and services
provided to, people with a learning disability (including those who
do not meet eligibility criteria and self-funders), to respond to
the strategic direction on personalisation and well-being.
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This would enable partner
organisations to plan for new models of service provision.
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Recommendation 6: Partnership Boards
should have goals and targets covering participation in communities.
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Recommendation 7: People with
learning disabilities should become more engaged with local
democracy/politics. Any barriers preventing people with learning
disabilities becoming involved in local democracy/politics should be
removed
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Recommendation 8: Learning
Disability Partnership Boards must be held more firmly to account
for their work both strategically and locally based.
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Recommendation 9: Assessment of
Local Strategic Partnerships should include measurement against
LDPB’s progress and effectiveness.
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Recommendation 10: Different
approaches to brokerage accreditation should be explored.
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Recommendation 11: (re)Training
social workers to carry out their new functions will be as important
as establishing balanced forms of local brokerage. We want to see
each local authority develop its own effective training and
development programme.
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Recommendation 12: There should be
national guidance on brokerage costs.
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Recommendation 13: There needs to be
explicit clarification about the relationships between regulated and
non regulated services.
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Recommendation 14: A debate needs to
take place about (the existing and) potential new powers that local
authorities could have to de-accredit potential providers whether
these are brokers or service delivery agencies
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Recommendation 15: All Adult Social
Care Departments should be required to set out their plans on how
extending the personalisation agenda is going to be achieved. These
should form part of their external inspection regimes.
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Recommendation 16:
LD
partnerships should focus on the key issues of improved
opportunities of things to do during the day, improved housing
opportunities and increased (and real) training opportunities. They
should develop an outward not an inward focus. The targets for these
should be real and challenging and form part of the PSA/LAA.
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Recommendation 17: We consider there
is an urgent need to address the inherent difficulties of applying
continuing care funding under the current regulations to learning
disability. (An alternative would be ring fencing of these resources
and transfer into local authorities through Section 75 pooled
arrangements).
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Recommendation 18: The FACs process
needs to be reviewed quickly to respond to the strategic direction
on personalisation and well-being
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Recommendation 19: All local
authorities should be required to draw up a provider market
development strategy. This would form part of their annual
assessment with Government.
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Recommendation 20: The Valuing
People Support Team should seek to influence Treasury and the
Department of Health to ensure that the campus closure programme
does not promote situations that will conflict with or adversely
affect the development of new provider market arrangements.