Choosing Your Support

Choosing Your Support

• Providers – to showcase their services to the public.

• Service Users – to see what services are available, and try them out.

• LCC – to find out what services people really want, and what services need to be developed.

Choosing Your Support

• 45 Providers • 200+ attendees

• flower pressing,• arts and crafts,• head, hand & shoulder

massages,• aromatherapy, • reflexology,• a Nintendo Wii,

• salsa dancing lessons,• relaxation and centring

workshops,• a digital photography

masterclass,• cake decorating• and many more.

Choosing Your Support

Choosing Your Support

Research Project

About Just Services A small co-operative Work with groups and

communities A stronger voice for

people using services Work collaboratively

with others

About the research

Partnership working with West Leicestershire Mindmosaic: shaping

disability services Self Advocacy in Action

About the research

Questionnaires Wishing Tree Focus groups Sample group

Facts and figures 46 people completed

questionnaires 57% of people using

services attending the day 18 ideas on the “Wishing

Tree” 38 people attending ‘focus

groups’

Findings People using services have

… Enjoyed many different

activities in the past Enjoy many different

activities in the present Have many aspirations

for the future

Findings people using services

want … Help to source, access and

start to use services Clear and understandable

information in a range of formats

To be treated with respect Concerns about Personal

Budgets to be addressed

RecommendationsThere needs to be …

Access to a wide range of activities and opportunities for people using Personal Budgets

Clarity about the ‘rules’ for Personal Budgets

More events like the one on 2 November 2010

Availability of information

Recommendations continued

Opportunities for people who can’t get out easily

Pre-activity or service support

Making sure people don’t speak for others

Changing the way we work

What now?

Who gets the report?

How can we all use this?

Any questions?