South West Hampshire News
Friday November 18th 2005
The Eastleigh and Romsey area now have an Older Family Carers Worker, Jane Gordon.
Jane's
job is to support family carers who are over 60, and who care for
someone with a learning disability (whether or not they still live at
home).
Jane can offer any level of support or advice that might be
needed, on your terms. While she has been recruited by Mencap, any
older carer can contact her, not just Mencap members.
Her contact numbers are: 023 80770406 or Mobile: 07817 01 88 33
Tuesday November 15th 2005
Salterns school in Totton has taken part in a pilot project in SE
England to try out different ways of doing transition plan meetings.
These meetings are an important way of planning with the young person
and their family about what they want to happen when they leave school.
The
pilot uses some of the ideas from person-centred planning to strengthen
the young person and their family's voices within the meeting.
The
meeting at the school went very well with lots of ideas shared about
what is important to the young person. Osborne School in Winchester is
also trying this out in February with one of their students.
Once
the whole region has evaluated the project, local authorities and
schools can consider how they want to take things forward in the
future, and in their other schools.
Thursday September 1st 2005
Learn to swim courses at The Quays on Saturdays 11 - 12pm
Tuesday August 9th 2005
Local people including family carers, staff and self-advocates travelled to London on 30th June for a national conference all about the results of the research into person centred planning, which the New Forest was part of.
Some of us did a presentation, and there was good feedback about these workshops.
These presentations, as well as the actual research findings can be seen by going to
www.centrevents.co.uk then go to "Making it work: Lessons from research in Person Centred Planning".
In the meantime, people in the New Forest have carried on with their planning, resulting in a very happy wedding day in July for one local couple!
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