Welcome!
Here is the Medway Learning Disability Partnership Board website
Here is a short film to let you know what happend at the September 2011 Learning Disability Partnership Board meeting:
Here are some more short films to let you know what happend at other Partnership Board meetings:
August 2011 Partnership Board meeting
May 2011 Partnership Board meeting
April 2011 Partnership Board meeting
February 2011 Partnership Board meeting
Click here i f you are looking for the 2010-2011 Medway Learning Disability Partnership Board Annual Report, which was agreed at the August 2011 Partnership Board meeting
Latest Government information on Jobs - Sayce Review Consultation
The Government has just finished a consultation about what needs to happen to support more people with disabilities into jobs click here if you want to find more information on this. When the results of the consultation are published we will put these on the website for you to see.
BBC1 Panorama Programme showing abuse of adults with learning disabilities
If you are looking for information about issues that were raised to do with the abuse of people with learning disabilities in the BBC 1 Panorama Programme on 31 May 2011 please click on the links below:
Click here to find out information about what the Government is doing, as a result of the Panorama TV programe, to make sure that adults with learning disabilities are safe from abuse
Click here to find information from Care Quality Commission abouts its findings and inspection into Winterbourne View Care Home (the subject of the Panorama Programme)
Click here to find the easy read Care Quality Commission Report into Winterbourne View and Castlebeck Care which were featured on the Panorama TV programme
Click hereto find information about what the NHS South East Strategic Health Authority is doing as a result of the Panorama TV programme, to make sure that adults with a learning disability are safe from abuse
Click here to find information about what Medway Council is doing, with many organisations, including Kent County Council, the health trusts, Kent County Constabulary and the private and voluntary sector to support adults with a learning disability to keep safe from harm and abuse
Click here for more information if you think that someone is being harmed or abused
National news about learning disability
Click here for national Valuing People Now and Valuing People information and resources
Click here for the latest Valuing People Now Newsletter
What does the Medway Learning Disability Partnership Board do?
The Medway Learning Disability Partnership Board's role is to check that the Government's plans called 'Valuing People Now' (2009) and 'Valuing People' (2001) happen in Medway.
Valuing People Now (209) and Valuing People (2001) are the names of the Government's plans specifically for adults with a learning disability.
The Valuing People Now (2009) plans are an update on the Government's Valuing People (2001) White Paper.
The BIG messages in Valuing People and Valuing People Now are:
- People with learning disabilities should have the same rights and choices as everyone else.
- People with learning disabilities have the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
- People with learning disabilities should have the same chances and responsibilities as everyone else.
- Family carers and families of people with learning disabilities have the right to the same hopes and choices as other families.
Click here to find out who are the members of the Medway Learning Disability Partnership Board in 2010/11
If you would like to contact the Co-Chairs of the Medway Learning Disability Partnership Board please click here
For the latest news about the Medway Learning Disability Partnership Board go to the 'Meeting Notes' part of this website.
Making it happen!
Meeting notes
Useful reading