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Valuing People Now
Valuing People Now: A new three-year strategy for people with learning disabilities sets out the cross-government strategy for the next three years. In doing so, it takes account of the responses to the consultation, which ended in March 2008.
In particular, this strategy:
- addresses what people said about the support people with learning disabilities and their families need;
- reflects the changing priorities across government which impact directly on people with learning disabilities;
- sets out the Government's response to the ten main recommendations in Healthcare for All, the report of the independent inquiry into access to healthcare for people with learning disabilities, chaired by sir Jonathan Michael; and
- provides a further response to the Joint Committee on Human Rights report, A Life Like Any Other?
The vision remains as set out in Valuing People in 2001: that all people with a learning disability are people first with the right to lead their lives like any others, with the same opportunities and responsibilities, and to be treated with the same dignity and respect. They and their families and carers are entitled to the same aspirations and life chances as other citizens.
The key focus of this strategy is to make that vision a reality. Each chapter sets out key cross-government commitments and actions to set the environment to enable change to happen, and summarises local and regional actions, based on good practice to grow capacity and capability for local delivery.
Download the full Valuing People Now strategy here
Download the Easy-Read version of Valuing People Now here
Download the Valuing People Now Delivery Plan here
Download the Easy-Read version of the Valuing People Now Delivery Plan here
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