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Transition Pathways
Valuing People Now has been looking at what needs to happen to improve the experience of young people with learning disabilities as they move into adulthood. The Getting a Life programme has focused on jobs and careers, but it is also important to think about and plan for future health, housing, and friendships and relationships.
Five pathways have been designed to show what needs to happen at each stage of a young person’s progress through transition and into adulthood, using the principles and methods of person-centred transition planning and support planning so that they can have jobs, friends, their own homes and choice and control over their lives.
Housing (coming soon)
A programme of events is running in 2010
to support partnership boards and local
staff working with young people to carry
out effective reviewing and planning.
For more information see http://centrevents.co.uk/vpntransition_home.aspx
OURS
TO OWN - Your Human Rights
Information about your Human Rights with some stories from the Equality and Human Rights Comission.
Self-employment
for People with Learning Disabilities
Some people with learning disabilities
want to work for themselves and run their
own business rather than working for someone
else.
You can see the stories of some people
in Herefordshire who are setting up their
own businesses as part of the Getting
a Life programme on the Herefordshire
with miEnterprise page.
The
Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
ran a programme called “In Business”,
and looked at the pathway towards self-employment
and small business ownership for those
people with learning disabilities. It
found out about the steps needed, including
innovation, business planning and development,
and service delivery change.
The In Business programme developed resources, tool and guides for people with a learning disability and those that support them. All of the guides are based on the experience of people with learning disabilities in the pilot project sites.
Quick Guide to Self-Employment - This guide gives an overview of what needs to be done when setting up a business and becoming self employed. It also has links to where you can get more help.
Developing a Business Idea - This guide helps people and their support workers think about their business idea in more detail, test their idea and begin planning.
Writing a Business Plan - This guide helps people bring their ideas together into one plan to help with seeking support for their venture.
In Business Programme Report
- is the final report of the In Business
programme.
You can see these resources and more information
about being self-employed and building
your own business on the Foundation for
People with Learning Disabilities’ In
Business web page at http://www.learningdisabilities.org.uk/our-work/employment/in-business
Project Plan
The project plan shows in a graphic format
what the Getting a Life project is going
to achieve and how we are going to achieve
it. To download a larger version of the
plan click on the image below or click
here >> 
Expected
outcomes
This image shows the expected outcomes
of the Getting a Life project over the
three years. Click the image to download
the complete version or click
here >> 
Getting a Life takes place in the context
of lots of different government strategies
and legislation. The context map
shows the local and national priorities,
strategies and ways of working which will
have an impact on the project. Click
here 
or on the image below for larger version.
The transition into work diagram shows
a way of thinking about transition planning
across agencies at a local level to ensure
that young people find a paid job and
get a full life. Please click
here
or on image below for full details.
Other resources and documents relating to employment and equal opportunities for young people with learning disabilities:
Valuing
People Now
Valuing People Now is a Department of
Health and cross-government strategy for
the next three years, which:
The full strategy, delivery plan and
resource pack and easy read versions can
be downloaded from the Department of Health
website:
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/SocialCare/Deliveringadultsocialcare/Learningdisabilities/index.htm
“Valuing Employment Now - real jobs for people with learning disabilities” sets out an ambitious goal to increase radically the number of people with learning disabilities in employment by 2025, with as many as possible of these jobs to be at least 16 hours per week.
The strategy document, delivery plan and easy read versions can be downloaded from the Department of Health website:
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