The Northumberland Learning Disability Partnership Board
"Working together to improve the lives of people with a learning disability in Northumberland"

Paul Mackay your Co-Chair representative on the Northumberland Learning Disability Partnership Board.

Jane Mackay User Forum Representative
Paul and and Jane are also members of the Northumberland User. Members of the User Forum attend many events regionally and nationally to represent the views of people with a learning disability in Northumberland.
What is the Learning Disability Partnership Board?

On the 20th March 2001 the Government published a White Paper about people with learning disabilities called Valuing People.
The Paper said what the Government thinks about learning disability services.

The Government believes that people with a learning disability should have the right to:-
- Support to be independent
- Be included in their local community

Valuing People is about new opportunities for people with learning disabilities and their families. Valuing People talks about the changes that are needed to help people with learning disabilities live the life they want. One important way of making these changes happen are Learning Disability Partnership Boards.
Partnership Boards bring people from different organisation's and from the wider community together to work to put Valuing People into action locally.

The Learning Disability Partnership Board is responsible for:-

- Working on planning for people with a learning disability in Northumberland
- Local Plans asked for in Valuing People, and producing reports where needed
- Helping people with a learning disability and carers say what they want and check that their views have been listened to
- Keeping others up to date with what is going on and how things effect them
- Checking that the right services are opportunities are available in Northumberland and that they are working properly
- Making sure that the plans are put in place and that changes happen
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