Services for Disabled Children

A Life Stages Service for Disabled Children and Adults with a Learning Disability has recently been launched within Darlington Borough Council. This will provide the following advantages:
• Clear and consistent management structure which will reduce bureaucracy and assist in the removal of barriers.
• An opportunity to establish and embed consistent personal and individual assessment and planning.
• Promotion of ‘ordinary life’ principle as a central theme to working with service users which would identify and support from an early age the right to continued learning, lasting peer relationships, independence and employment.
• Develop stronger partnerships with families and carers by removing the barrier of confusing and over bureaucratic systems within organisations.
• Advance the inclusion agenda by contributing to the challenge on universal and targeted services to ensure services meet the needs of disabled children and young adults.

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