People with High Support Needs
Valuing People Now says that people with complex needs should have the same opportunities as everyone else: inclusion and participation in all areas of community life, including living independently and having paid work.
For people with more complex needs equality of access and opportunity usually means that specific adjustments need to be made and this may include very specialised support, both intense and ongoing. However, lack of understanding and aspiration about what can be achieved sometimes leads to an assumption that people will be passive recipients of care throughout their lives, as opposed to people who can make decisions and live as empowered citizens in our society.
Click here to see Professor Jim Mansell’s report on people with the most complex needs: Raising Our Sights: Services for Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities
Click here or below to go to a webpage to watch the Raising our Sights DVD about people with complex needs and how they and their families cope with everyday life
Alex and Simon's story
Victoria's story
Micthel's story
James' story
Making it happen!
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