Decision - Learning Disability Day Services - Creation of Day Options Team

(1)               That the Cabinet Member for Housing approves that the council’s Integrated Learning Disability Services create a Day Options Team.  The Day Options Team would be developed slowly over time.  The Day Options Team would offer an advice, guidance and co-ordination point to maximise the day opportunities available to people with learning disabilities in Brighton & Hove. 

(2)               That the Cabinet Member for Housing monitors the progress on the development of this additional team through regular briefings from the implementation team.

To ensure we are providing a personalised range of day options to people with learning disabilities in line with national requirements and the personalisation of adult social care.

The government and Brighton & Hove Adult Social Care are clear that services must become more personalised and service users must be given more choice and control than they have at present. The existing support services for people with learning disabilities in the city are endeavouring to provide more choices and more control for their service users. However resources are tied up in the provision of the current, more traditional services.  It will assist the move to personalisation and will assist service providers to make the most efficient use of their resources if they have a central resource they can use and share.