Forward MID!
Joint Physical Disabilities Planning group
The consultaition meeting of the Joint Physical disability Planning groups
was held on the
10th December at the Mining Museum in newtongrange.
This group exists to plan services for people in Midlothian who are affected
by physical disability
and are between the ages of 16 to 65, we are currently developing a Physical and Complex
Disability Strategy for Midlothian.
it is estimated that there are as many 4,500 people living in
Midlothian
with a disability with approximately 3,645 with a physical disability.
We would like to keep you and your group members informed about the
work we are doing, and to
communicate with you about what you think
we should be doing. In other words, we would like you
to be included
in the development of the work we do.
This will enable us to best meet the needs of people with disabilities.
One of the ideas that has come about is to create a “scrutiny panel”
to oversee the work we do.
A scrutiny panel is a group of people with
disabilities that meets every 2 months or so to look over
the work that
has been done by the planning group. The panel can then tell us what
they think of
the work, and whether there are things we are missing and
address these gaps in provisions to the
best of our ability. If you or any
of your group members might be interested in being involved in a
scrutiny
panel, please get in touch via Midlothian Community Care Forum
Development worker. This
is very much a starting point,If you would
like more information, or to talk about any part of this,
you can contact
Eric Johnstone 0131 663 9471 or Catherine Evans 0131 561 5527.
This consultation period ended on January 31st 2008, when there is
more to report it will attached to
each work stream.
The work stream sub groups are:
Independent Living.
Day , evening and weekend activities.
Transport.
Housing.
Employment.
Best practice.
Access to Mainstream services.
Finance.
Short breaks
