ARE YOU WORKING TO BRING PEOPLE BACK TO THEIR

HOME AREA OR HELP PEOPLE STAY WITHIN THEIR OWN

COMMUNITY?
- MAKING PLACES FOR PEOPLE TO CALL HOME?
Everyone, with no exception, deserves a place to call home.
Person by person, area by area, the number of people with learning
disabilities and autism in secure hospitals or assessment and treatment
settings will permanently reduce. At the same time local community
based support and early intervention will improve to the point it will
become extremely rare for a person to be excluded from the right to live
their life outside of a hospital setting.
These are the aims of the Winterbourne view joint improvement programme;
a place I call home.
If you are working to make this a reality in your area then we would like to
invite you to take part in an action learning set with others to work out how
best to do this. Each set will consist of 12 24 people with direct
responsibility for helping an individual, family or small groups of people who
have a learning disability or autism and display or are at risk of displaying
challenging behaviour. The sets are for people like social workers, care co-
ordinators, peer advocates, family carers, nurses and community behaviour
support team members. There is no charge to attend. Payment for time and
expenses can be paid for anyone who is acting in an unwaged capacity (in
line with Skills for Care participation policy) Participants should come prepared
to help each other find and put into practice solutions for the actual
individuals who they are helping to return to their home area from an inpatient
setting, or to stay in their own community.
Each set will meet for a full day each month for four months to share the
problems they are facing and the solutions they are creating. Sets will run
from September 2014 February 2015 at three locations across England
depending on demand. The first set will start on the 11th September from
10.00 15.00 in Leeds, That group will meet again on 28th October and the
25th November and in January 2015. We plan to run another two sets starting
in October and November and these sets will meet in another part of England
so if you are keen to participate but Leeds is too far away then let us know.
If you are interested in attending then please
contact lionel.myers@skillsforcare.org.uk | West Gate, 6 Grace Street, Leeds LS1
2RP | 01132411209 giving your full contact details, preferred location and also
some information (no more than one page of a4) about how you can help
achieve the aims of the programme in your area. Feel free to email me if you
have questions about this. http://www.local.gov.uk/place-i-call-home/-
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This is a joint endeavour between the JIP, Local Government Association,
Skills for Care and Skills for Health, with support from Salford Local Authority.