Welcome to the Valuing Medway People Website.

We’ve set up this website to tell you what the Valuing Medway People Partnership Board is

and what it does. And we’ve included lots of information to help you find out about things

like having fun, working and learning, travelling and sorting out your money.

 

Click here to see what we do

 

Click here to see a flier for the forum on 23rd May

Click here to see notes from the Transport Sub Group meetings

NEWS! Annual Health Checks click here to find out about a new service
You and Your Health - click here to find out about support in Medway

The Valuing People Support Team has written a guide for Partnership Boards

         about Safeguarding adults with learning disabilities.

        Click here to see the guide.

Valuing People Now!

Valuing People was written six years ago in 2001.

Its aim was to help people with learning disabilities live good and full lives.

Since then, a lot has happened to improve the lives of people with a learning disability.

But some people’s lives are still the same as before.

So Government has decided it is time to take a new look at Valuing People.

The Valuing People Now paper says what Government wants to happen

with Valuing People for the next three years.

 

Valuing People Now does three things:

     1.  It adds new bits of policy where it is needed

     2. It says what the big priorities are for the next 3years

     3. It says what should be done so that Valuing People happens for everyone.

 

Click the link here to see the Valuing People Now paper and have your say!

 

We want to know what you think about Valuing People Now.

You have got three months until March 11th to tell us what you think.

 

Click here to see a flier about the Shout Out Advocacy Group

Click here to see The Learning Disability Task Force Annual Report

Lots of people use this website. Find out here.

 

We hope you like the site – please tell us if you do. We’d also like you to tell us about

anything else you want to see on the site and we’ll do our best to include it.

Click on the Contact picture to get in touch!

 

What We Do

The Valuing Medway People Partnership Board works together to make sure that Valuing People happens in the Medway towns in Kent. It makes sure that the services the Council and other agencies provide meet the needs of people with a learning disability and their parents and carers.

The members of the Board meet every six weeks to ensure that people with a learning disability have equal access to all community services.

You can find out more by clicking the links below.

 

Here are the names of people who go to the Partnership Board meetings

 

• What the Partnership Board is and what it does
• Being a member of the Partnership Board.
•     Our Annual Report.              

      

What is ‘Valuing People’?

‘Valuing People’ is the government's plan for making the lives of people with learning disabilities and their families and carers better.

It was written in 2001, and it was the first White Paper for people with learning disabilities for 30 years. It covers England.

It is based on people having -

• their rights as citizens
• inclusion in local communities
• choice in daily life
• real chances to be independent

It was written with help from people with learning disabilities, family carers, and people who work in services or other organisations for people with learning disabilities.

It came with an easier to understand version, as well as a report from the service users advisory group called 'Nothing about us without us', a report on family carers called 'Family Matters', and a report on learning difficulties and ethnicity.

You can find these papers, and other information on the Valuing People website.

 

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