choosing your support providers – to showcase their services to the public. service users – to...
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Choosing Your Support
• Providers – to showcase their services to the public.
• Service Users – to see what services are available, and try them out.
• LCC – to find out what services people really want, and what services need to be developed.
Choosing Your Support
• 45 Providers • 200+ attendees
• flower pressing,• arts and crafts,• head, hand & shoulder
massages,• aromatherapy, • reflexology,• a Nintendo Wii,
• salsa dancing lessons,• relaxation and centring
workshops,• a digital photography
masterclass,• cake decorating• and many more.
Choosing Your Support
Choosing Your Support
Research Project
About Just Services A small co-operative Work with groups and
communities A stronger voice for
people using services Work collaboratively
with others
About the research
Partnership working with West Leicestershire Mindmosaic: shaping
disability services Self Advocacy in Action
About the research
Questionnaires Wishing Tree Focus groups Sample group
Facts and figures 46 people completed
questionnaires 57% of people using
services attending the day 18 ideas on the “Wishing
Tree” 38 people attending ‘focus
groups’
Findings People using services have
… Enjoyed many different
activities in the past Enjoy many different
activities in the present Have many aspirations
for the future
Findings people using services
want … Help to source, access and
start to use services Clear and understandable
information in a range of formats
To be treated with respect Concerns about Personal
Budgets to be addressed
RecommendationsThere needs to be …
Access to a wide range of activities and opportunities for people using Personal Budgets
Clarity about the ‘rules’ for Personal Budgets
More events like the one on 2 November 2010
Availability of information
Recommendations continued
Opportunities for people who can’t get out easily
Pre-activity or service support
Making sure people don’t speak for others
Changing the way we work
What now?
Who gets the report?
How can we all use this?
Any questions?