National Forum Notes 29th-30th June 2015

Yorkshire Humber Feedback for National Forum on 29th-30th

June

In Yorkshire and Humber I have been going round Advocacy

Groups to tell people about the Green Paper. Its a new report
called No Voice Unheard, No Right ignored. I have been talking
to lots of people with a learning disability about the Green paper.

Feedback from the Green Paper

In total we spoke to 117 people from Rotherham, Barnsley,
Keighley, Leeds, Hull, North Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire, York,
Wakefield, North East Lincolnshire.
Out of the 117 people 9 people were family carers. 60 people
were female and 57 people were male.

Yorkshire/Humber
Two people came from Change to Speakup to talk to us about an
easyread booklet on the Green Paper. We talked about as
Assessment Treatment Unit at a health sub group that I sat on.

Inclusion North and Change

We used the Inclusion North Presentation and the answer booklet
to find out what people thought about the Green Paper.
Change are also running as event in Rotherham on the 19th of
May. 15 people have booked on this event. We have not included
this in our feedback.

Yorkshire/Humber

We wanted to get the views of lots of people with learning

disabilities and/or autism and family carers in Yorkshire and
Humber.
To do this we organised a joint event with the National Valuing
Families Forum and then Alison Owen the National Forum
Representative for Yorkshire and Humber went out across the
region to find out what people thought.
These are the answers:
Services need to be holistic and look at the person as a whole.
Not mental and physical health being treated separately.
At the minute the services do not exist. There is not enough
money for ingoing care. There is only money for mental health
This is a good idea but without the funding it wont happen
It is good to stay close to the community, this is important to us
We would like to see more support and choice in the community
We still think the hospital can help when people are really ill but
staying at home can be really important to people