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STATEMENT ON POLICY AND PRACTICE FOR ADULTS WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY

Wales now has a new Statement on Policy and Practice of Adults with a Learning Disability. Dr Gibbons said ‘I warmly welcome the issue of our contemporary Statement on Policy and Practice for Adults with a Learning Disability. The time was right for us to bring our learning disability policy into the 21st Century and set it within the context of our other strategic approaches to modernize health and social services and improve the lives of our citizens’ The contemporary Statement on Policy and Practice for Adults with a Learning Disability is being issued as Section 7 guidance.

As All Wales People First wrote in the document's preface:

" The Statement on Policy and Practice will help to make it more possible for people with learning disabilities to become included in community living and have more opportunities to develop our own lifestyles. We want to build bridges between us and the world out there and we see this as a two way process. We want people to understand us better and value us. We can make a valuable contribution to the community and we can help people in the community to recognise us as valued citizens. Making these links, would make the community safer for all."
Click here to read the document in full
Click here to read the accessible version

The group are currently working on an action plan to work alongside the contemporary statement.

Consultation process

The LDIAG put the proposed statement out to consultation between March and June 2006. They asked people to consider:
1. If there was a need for the Welsh Assembly Government to issue a new
contemporary statement on the ‘Policy and Practice Guidance for Adults with
a Learning Disability’?
2. if yes to 1 above were:
the areas covered by the LDIAG Statement comprehensive and
appropriate?
should any part of the draft Statement text be amended? and if so how?.
All of the over forty responses agreed there was a need for a contemporary statement. The group took into consideration the responses and altered the statement accordingly.

Click here to read the proposed statement document
Read the group's letter to the Minister about the consultation responses Read the full Minister's letter.

 
 


 
   
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