Better Lives
The aim of the Better Lives team is to identify how we can all work together to improve the support to adults with learning disabilities and autism within the East Riding to lead a good life. The team are tasked with providing assurance to the East Riding’s senior leadership team, that the care and support commissioned across the East Riding is delivering positive outcomes and is good value for money.
The key stakeholders are:
- People with lived experience
- Partnership boards
- Providers of health and social care
- Carers
As a team, we will strive to ensure that future services will be delivered to empower and enable individuals with learning disabilities and/or autism to lead full and fulfilling lives, as part of the their community with the same hopes and aspirations as every other citizen. The four main principles to achieving this include:
- Ensuring people have choice
- Ensuring that people are included
- Legal and civil rights are upheld
- People lead the lives that they want
The project will focus on:
- Employment
- Independent Living
- Community Inclusion
- Better Health
The project will adopt the Human Rights based approach, which means that individuals and communities should know their rights. We aim to co produce a future vision for specialist services in the East Riding.
Better Lives Self Evaluation Framework
The vision has six interrelated and overlapping elements.
- Inclusion– Support people to have good lives in their communities and to be treated with dignity and respect.
- Equal access– To opportunities and services e.g. contributing to community life, social and leisure opportunities, housing, banking, jobs, health, and transport.
- Person centred planning and support– Involve people, families, and carers in solutions that respond to the individual strengths and needs.
- Safeguarding– Be safe in communities and free from the risk of discrimination, hate crime and abuse.
- Sustainable models of support– A commitment to focus on developing these.
- Progression– Recognising that people with disabilities (including the most complex) have the potential to progress and develop.
Making it real
Making it real is framework which sets out a set of statements to describe what good, citizen-focused, personalised care and support looks like from the point of view of the people themselves. The image below links to the Think Local Act Personal website, which provides more information on this framework.
