East Riding Council has unveiled a major five year plan around learning disability.
The authority's executive Director of Adult Social Care and Health is Kim Curry.
She says the plan's been developed with input from people with learning difficulties, their families and carers:
" We've identified eight key priorities in the plan, which is about place to live, making sure that the suitable housing options available for this group of people, inclusive communities, and again, making sure that we're fostering environments where everybody is included. And inclusion is a key part of what we do every day.
"Providing meaningful daytime activities, supporting both physical and mental health. Managing life changes, supporting transitions from children's to adult services and other significant life events, making sure that people feel safe and secure in their environment. Really crucially, providing support for carers and recognizing and supporting both family and unpaid carers and informal support."
The director called the plan a significant enabler.
A Care Quality Commission Report recently said key stakeholders' voices should be listened to more:
"The plan is built on extensive consultation that included surveys, it included focus groups, so we can really get to the bottom of the daily challenges and lived experience of, for people in this group.
"The partnership will lend disability Partnership Board will be the governance mechanism to oversee the delivery, and there will be subgroups reporting in quarterly to the partnership board that will be chaired by our Director of Adult Specialist Services alongside two experts by experience as our co-chairs who do a great job on the partnership board and we're really pleased that they've agreed to carry on.
"We're going to develop an overarching action plan and the annual progress on the action plan will be reported through the Health and Wellbeing Board as a governance structure."
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