All Wales Community Living Network
Hello, welcome to the All Wales Community Living Network pages.
Our Network exists to ensure that services continue to grow and develop for all people who have a learning disability and their family members in Wales. This should happen in a way that helps people to develop as individuals while being safe and secure at home and in their community.
The aims of our Network are to promote a wide range of quality services for people and their families which:
- Are based on the ‘social model’ of disability and principles of individuality and inclusion
- Continue to get better through monitoring and research
- Develop and improve because of the views of service users and their advocates
- Are provided by well-trained and motivated staff
- Are funded and commissioned so that they are stable for as long as they are needed
- Cooperate and share information with each other about new ideas that improve services
- Are very good employers of staff.
We also exist to help people and their families, provider agencies, commissioners of service, and regulators of services to find better ways of working together in an open and cooperative partnership that promote the rights and opportunities of people with a learning disability both locally and nationally.
Our network works by agreeing a programme of work each year that has a number of key themes, over the next year we will be looking at themes including:
- Managing the Work of the Network
- The Working Time Directive
- Developing Legislation and Case Law
- Best Practice in care and support
- Best Practice in housing management
- Research Findings
- Self directed services
- Using Technology to increase independence
- Maximising relationships and developing communities
- Commissioning for best practice
We are currently creating our own mini-websites where these issues will be discessed. When they are ready the links will appear above.
On our pages we want you to:
- Find information about examples of great practice from Wales and the further a field
- Get involved in active discussion about how we can make services more empowering and more efficient
- Get news about events being held across Wales for Network members
- Change and develop the work of our Network so that it really helps us to make a difference to services across Wales.
Our Network will be successful if we all get involved to make the most of these pages, by sharing information and working together, we look forward to hearing from you.
Contact Details
Adrian Roper – Chairperson adrian.roper@cartreficymru.org
Rick Wilson – Vice-chair person rick@communitylives.co.uk
