What is a commissioning strategy?

It is a plan that says how we will spend the money we have for learning disabilities

The money comes from …..

The Council

The Primary Care Trust

What is in the plan?

It says what changes the government has made that will help us decide how to spend the money

It says what changes have been made in Ealing that will help us decide how to spend the money

It says how many people with learning disabilities there are

It says what health and social care needs people have

It says where people live and what services they get

It has the views of people with learning disabilities

It has the views of their family carers

We had meetings in September to talk about

what services people want

The plan says what services we spend the money on now

It says which organisations provide the services

It says how much the services cost

It says how we check on the services we buy for people

The plan also says how we are going to change services so we can meet the

needs of people in the future

How are we spending the money?

Residential / Nursing Care63%

Supported Living11%

Day Services8%

Specialist Hospitals6%

Transport4%

Respite Care4%

Employment Services2%

Direct Payments1%

Advocacy and Person Centred Planning

1%

We spend over £25 million on health and social care services for adults with learning disabilities and their carers.

We think that there are 1,016 people with learning disabilities aged 18-64. We know 800.

We think there might be over 100 people with learning disabilities over the age of 65.

We spend 74% of our money on residential care and supported living. This is for 418 people.

There are 230 people placed outside of Ealing.

We also buy day services for lots of people in residential

care homes.

There are about 500 people with high support needs

There are 46 people with severe challenging needs

About half of the people we know about are from

minority ethnic communities

We spend over £2 million on day services.

We know of about 400 people living with family carers.

We spend about £1 million on respite services. About 140 families received

breaks from caring last year.

How many people will there be in the future?

We think there will be about 11 more young people with learning disabilities every

year who will need adult services.

We think there will be about 5 young people with high support needs who will need adult services next year.

We think this number will go up every year.

We think there will be 1-4 young people every year who will use our challenging behaviour service.

What changes are we going to make in the next 5 years?

Housing and Support

We will develop more supported living for people with high support needs

and challenging needs

We will develop more services in Ealing so

people don’t have to go out of the borough

We will have some places in an extra care scheme for

older people with learning disabilities

We will have a floating support scheme for people

in their own homes who don’t need much support

Day Services and Employment

We will modernise our day services by getting more people into paid work and leisure activities

We will move people out of Stirling Rd

We will move Learning Curve staff to Acton Town Hall

We will develop new day opportunities for

people with autism and challenging needs

Breaks for Carers

We will develop a new respite service for people with challenging needs

We will spend more of the carers grant on breaks for

carers

We will find a fairer way of sharing out respite

Choice and Control

We will have an advocacy plan and develop different types of advocacy

We will have projects to develop person centred planning for young people

in transition and we will use multi media profiling

We will support more people to have direct payments

We will have a project to develop individual budgets

Now tell us what you think?