Who do we work with?
Working with other people as well as people who have a learning disability.
We have changed our Rule 2. Rule 2 is a very important rule; it describes the types of people the Consortium can provide services to. Our previous rules said that we could only provide services to people who have a learning disability.
We have changed this rule, so that we especially provide services to people over 16 who have a learning disability, but we can also provide services to other people needing support in the community as well.
Our commitment to the principles of the All Wales Strategy remains unchanged for whoever we work with. These stay in our rules.
This change is necessary for our development in the future; our primary work will always be the support of people who have a learning disability. However we are exploring providing help using, amongst other things, community alarms and assistive technology.
These work best when there are teams of staff who can be rapidly called out to meet people’s needs in a local area. These staff will need to be able to help a whole range of people who are vulnerable in their community and will work effectively alongside staff who have special skills in helping people with particular needs such as learning disabilities.
We believe that services in the future will bring together these general and specialist components and these will make services for all vulnerable adults more effective. Our previous rules stopped us from developing these new ways of delivering services.
We have also developed new types of services for people who have a learning disability that now they are developed could be very useful to other groups as well.
For example we have developed a new way by which people can record their lives using pictures, sounds, and video and use these to communicate with friends and relatives. This uses computers and the internet. Now this is developed it could be very useful to other groups of people such as people leaving care. Developing this with other groups of people helps us to bring further money into the agency thus enabling us to develop new ideas for services to people who have a learning disability.
Our new Rule 2 makes these developments possible.
