What is the Learning Disability Partnership
Board?
The first Learning Disability Partnership Board in Suffolk took
place in October 2001. Since then, it has been meeting 4
times a year. The purpose of the Learning Disability Partnership
Board is to strengthen and extend existing partnerships and provide
better services for people with Learning Disabilities.
What is the job of the Learning Disability Partnership
Board?
The Learning Disability Partnership Board is a County Planning
and Action Group. It is made up of people who have the power
and permission to speak up for different groups of people and
services. The job of the Learning Disability Partnership
Board is to make sure that the lives of people with a learning
disability and their families get better.
The Government said that every area should set up a Partnership
Board so that its plans for people, which are written in Valuing
People: A Strategy for the 21st Century, happen. It also said who
should be on the Board, to make sure that everybody is represented,
and to make sure that the members on the Board work together to
make real the vision in Valuing People.
Every Learning Disability Partnership Board needs a Business
Plan, which sets out its targets, and what the different
Organisations need to be doing to reach them. It needs to
keep an eye on the things that are not getting done, and also make
sure that lessons are learnt from things that go well or go
wrong.
How to contact us with comments:
Sue White
Project Assistant, ACS
Red House,
12 Great Whip Street,
Ipswich
IP2 8EZ.
Telephone: 01473 406776
Email:
susan.white@socserv.suffolkcc.gov.uk
There are three local learning disability forums. They link into
the Suffolk Learning Disability Partnership Board. The forums are
in the East, the West and in Waveney.
The minutes from their last meetings are below.