Priority One - Short Breaks for People With Learning Disabilities

 Listed below are some potential solutions to address this priority. Please score the solutions from the perspective of carers for people with learning disabilities

 3 = Very Important

2 = Quite Important

1 = Not So Important

 

Solutions

Score

Raise awareness of the short breaks that are available with service users

 

 

Raise awareness of the short breaks that are available with carers

 

 

Long term care plans for people with learning disabilities to include short breaks

 

 

Day care centres to open some evenings

 

 

 

Play schemes for children with learning disabilities to be provided during the school holidays

 

 

Children with learning disabilities to be supported to attend a community play scheme during the school holidays

 

 

Support workers to be available to look after people with learning disabilities in the family home to allow carers to have a break during the day

 

 

Support workers to be available to look after people with learning disabilities in the family home to allow carers to have a break during the evening

 

 

Foster care families to be available for short breaks for people with learning disabilities

 

 

Holidays (outwith the county, with a support worker known to the user) to be provided for people with learning disabilities

 

 

Family holidays (with a support worker known to the family) to be provided for people with learning disabilities

 

 

Evening classes such as art, music, drama, pottery to be provided for people with learning disabilities

 

 

People with learning disabilities to be supported to attend evening classes such as art, music, drama, pottery at the college

 

 

Evening classes such as art, music, drama, pottery to be provided for people with learning disabilities in a designated building.

 

 

Emergency short breaks, at places such as Grant Street, Thor House, to be available at short notice for people with learning disabilities

 

 

Emergency short breaks, in designated Bed & Breakfast establishments or hotels etc., to be available at short notice for people with learning disabilities

 
       

In your opinion, if the solutions you have given the highest score to, were in place would this address priority one (short breaks for people with learning disabilities)? 

Yes                                          No                                             Don't Know

 Please add the solutions you feel are missing

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