Putting personalisation into practice - Care Accolades 2010

Meadowview - A Partnership in Practice in Transition to Adult Services - North Ayrshire Council

Meadowview is a unique service, home to four young people who have profound and multiple learning disabilities and complex health needs. Friends at the same residential school, where trained nurses and therapists met their complex needs had to change to adult services once they turned 18.

North Ayrshire Council, the local Community Learning and Disability Team and the provider formed a partnership to engage with the young people and their families. This resulted in the four friends sharing a home, Meadowview, just like other young people.


Getting a life, not a service - ENABLE Scotland

'Getting a Life Not a Service' is the theme of ENABLE Scotland's strategy that sets out to work in partnership with local authorities, people who have learning disabilities and their families to achieve personalised support. The strategy has empowered 600 people who have learning disabilities and their families to participate in debate and discussion on personalisation through conferences and events.

As part of the strategy, we worked with the Scottish Government pilot in East Glasgow CHCP. Working with six willing individuals to develop support plans with clear outcomes, and to use their individual budgets to achieve those outcomes. People involved in the pilot have benefited from increased choice and control over how they are supported and some have chosen alternatives to traditional paid support. A programme of training and support has helped staff develop the skills required to progress the pilot.


Transitions to Learning and Work - East Glasgow Community Health Care Partnership

As East Glasgow has the greatest concentration of Looked After and Accommodated Children (LAAC) in Scotland, one of the key aspirations in raising the life chances of this group is providing increased post-school assistance to enable progress onto further/higher education, employment or vocational training.

The East Glasgow Care Leavers Initiative in August 2008 was intended and has sought to provide this group with a range of learning programmes designed to meet their complex needs while recognising their vulnerable and challenging backgrounds. By working in partnership with a number of agencies, it aims to progress these young people into more fulfilling and rewarding opportunities than would have previously been the case.

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