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Central Lancashire
Person Centred Planning
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Local News & Discussion |
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PCP Audit Report 2009/2010
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PCP Audit 2009 - 2010
For the first time ever, this year's Central Lancashire PCP Audit was led and conducted by family members and people with learning disabilities. The audit shows us what we are doing well, and what we need to work harder at in order to deepen and spread personalisation and person-centred approaches in our area.
One big headline is that the audit shows that the number of people who are getting person centred reviews has doubled since the last audit.
Thanks to Peter and Wendy Crane, to all the auditors, and to all the services that participated in the audit!
Download the audit report here
Download the PCP coordinator's audit response here
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Choices Count In Chorley
Chorley Person Centred Awareness Workshops
June 22nd
Newtrees Centre, Stump Lane, Chorley
Organised by Chorley and District Local Mencap Society
Download a flyer here |
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A hospital champion makes your
stay in hospital better by
making sure that hospital staff
understand your needs.
The hospital passport
records what is important
to you and how to
support you well
when you need to
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Hospital Learning Disability Champions Event
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Employers Big Screen Event
If you're an employer, big or small, and you're interested in finding out about the many benefits of employing a person with learning disabilities, and how to make it work for your organisation, then this event is for you.
22nd June 10am -12noon
Odeon Cinema
Portway
Preston
Download the flyer here
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New Person Centred Planning Guidance Launched
"Personalisation through Person Centred Planning" is a new publication by the Department of Health which shows how person centred planning can be used to achieve the objectives of 'Putting People First'.
It has 3 key messages:
* Person centred planning and support planning are practical ways to deliver personalised services and self-directed support
* Person centred planning and support planning are simple ways to achieve co-production, enabling people to shape and commission their own services and make decisions about how they want to spend their personal budget to live their lives
* Person centred planning is not intended to add, nor should it add, unneccessary complexity or costs to self-directed support
Upload 'Personalisation through person centred planning here'
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Join your local PCP
Task Group! |
PCP Task Group Dates 2010
The PCP Task groups are open to people who wish to work together to spread and deepen the use of person centred approaches in the lives of people with learning disabilities.
We have 3 PCP Task Groups, one covering Chorley and South Ribble, one covering West Lancashire, and one covering the Preston area.
Click here for full details
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person centred thinking helps
people think about their lives |
Facilitators and Coaches Learning Set Dates for 2010
The learning set is a place where coaches and facilitators can think together about person centred practices.
Click here for dates for 2010
Click here for more information on being a person centred thinking coach |
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Waggon and Horses Leyland
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Visit your local library! |
Chorley Library and Leyland Library accessible information:
Lancashire libraries are trying hard to make themselves more accessible to everyone, including people with learning disabilities.
Why not take a trip to your local library, to find out what they have to offer?
Chorley and Leyland libraries have shared these information sheets with us:
Chorley Library
Leyland Library
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A circles facilitator helps the
person and their family
to organise a circle of support
create a vision of a positive
future, and to move toward
their goals.
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Circles Facilitators Job Vacancies in Preston, and South Ribble
STOP PRESS!
Similar jobs are now available in Chorley and South Ribble. Contact LCIL at the number above!
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Preston Carer's Bulletin
The Preston Carers Centre have put together an informative bulletin for carers of people with learning disabilities
Download the September 2009 bulletin here
They also want to share information about the new 'Peace of Mind 4 Carers' service:
Peace of Mind 4 Carers
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Preston Service
User Network
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Come to the Preston Service User Network Meeting!
If you want to join a group of people with learning disabilities in Preston.
If you want to talk about your life, the services you receive, and how to make them better, then come along to the Preston service user Network meeting.
Download the meeting details here
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Lancashire Communication
Guide
Everyone communicates.
Do we properly understand
the communication of
the people we support?
Are we sharing what we
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Lancashire Communication Guide Launched
A new toolkit that will help us learn and record people's communication has been launched by Central Lancashire's Communication Task Group.
Are we listening properly for what people are telling us with their words and behaviour?
The guide includes a variety of person centred tools and formats for recording the person's methods of communication, as we learn more about them.
You can download templates and examples of the Lancashire Communication Guide here
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You can get a copy of the Communication Guide on a disk
by ringing Kathy Pemberton or Scilla Reed on 01772 644130 |
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They will be happy to give advice on how to use the guide. |
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New website: www.pcp4me.net
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New Person Centred Thinking Website Launched
PCP coordinators and leads in East Lancashire have put together a brilliant new website on Person Centred Thinking and Planning
The site is well thought out, well written, and full of excellent examples of the use of person centred thinking to enable real people to make positive changes in their lives.
You can look at the new website by clicking here:
www.pcp4me.net
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New Training Packages for
Person Centred Thinking
and
Person Centred Planning
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New PCP Training Package from June 2009!
Helen Smith has been working with the South Lancashire Learning Disability Training Consortia to put together a new streamlined package of training in Person Centred Thinking and Planning.
For full details of the new courses available, click here:
Person Centred Thinking Training 2009
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65 People A Week Will Get a Personal Budget in Lancashire
A report which has been described as 'practical and illuminating' and containing 'sound practical guidance and some creative innovative practice' has been published on the last five years of work around Self Directed Support and personal budgets for people supported by Lancashire County Council's care services.
Kim Haworth, the County's Commissioning Lead for Personalisation says in her report "We are already far beyond the pilot stages of SDS. Our target is 10,775 personal budgets by 2011 and we are in the throes of a metamorphosis as radical as that experienced by any local authority in recent times... this requires us to enable 65 people a week from April 2009 to have a personal budget - no mean feat"
A personal budget is when:
1.The person knows what their indicative budget is, so they can plan their support
2. They have a support plan that has been signed off, and the money released
3. They know that the support plan will be reviewed at least once a year.
Richard Jones, Executive director of Adult and Community Services said "It is about treating people as customers who want services to be developed with them and not handed down to them as a result of a professional assessment or decision... Personalisation is here to stay. It makes sense in terms of better outcomes for people, and it makes sense in terms of our value base as social care professionals"
You can download the full report from the 'In Control' website:
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Audit of Person Centred Approaches in Central Lancashire
An audit which goes deeply into what's happening in Central Lancashire with Person Centred Approaches has just been published.
It is full of great stories about how people have made their lives better, and about what services are doing to improve.
It also looks at some of the blocks and obstacles to change in our area, and has important recommendations for anyone wishing to make services for people with learning disabilities in our area better.
Click here to download a copy of the PCP audit
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The government paper
'Valuing People Now'
tells their strategy
for people with learning
disabilities for the
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Valuing People Now (2009) Is Up and Running!
Valuing People Now is a government document which says that people with learning disabilities are entitled to the same aspirations and life chances as other people.
It was published on 19th January 2009
The need for personalisation and for person centred approaches is central to Valuing People Now.
You can read 'Valuing People Now' by clicking here.
You can read 'Valuing People Now: The Delivery Plan' by clicking here.
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What Valuing People Now Says:
"For people with learning disabilities and their families, transformation should mean using person centred approaches (such as person centred planning and support planning) and improved outcomes in terms of social inclusion, empowerment and equality.
More people with learning disabilities should be able to commission their own services to live independently and have real choice about the way they live their lives" (p15)
"All people with learning disabilities and their families will have greater choice and control over their lives and have support to develop person centred plans" (p51) |
From Individual to Strategic Change:
The Delivery Plan for Valuing People Now says there is a need for "a piece of work that identifies how person centred information can be used to inform commissioning at a strategic level", in Central Lancashire we are working with strategic commissioners, Helen Sanderson Associates and Sam Bennett of the DOH on a pilot scheme called 'co-producing commissioning' that will feed into this national project.
*UPDATE 21st July 2009 - The report on this work from 'Putting People First', called 'Working Together for Change: Using Person Centred Information for Commissioning, is now available here
New PCP Guidance
There's more to come! In Spring 2009, the Department of Health will issue and disseminate new person centred planning guidance aimed specifically at people with learning disabilities, we're expecting this to be a 'must-read' document for everyone involved in enabling people with learning disabilities to lead interesting and productive lives. As soon as this guidance is released, we'll post a link to it here.
Premature Death in Health Care
An inquiry into premature deaths of people with learning disabilities in hospital and health care has been launched as part of 'Valuing People Now'. It's widely recognised now that the NHS is failing to meet the needs of people with learning disabilities, and must now improve it's services so that they can receive the same quality of healthcare as everyone else.
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Calendar of
PCP Task Group Meetings
for 2009:
West Lancashire
Preston
Chorley and South Ribble
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Person Centred Planning 2009
We've released a programme of Person Centred Planning Task Group Meetings and Facilitator's Learning Set sessions for Chorley and South Ribble, West Lancashire and Preston
in 2009
To download all the dates and times for these meetings, click here.
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Personalisation is all about me |
Personalisation in Lancashire
We've launched a new web-page to talk about 'personalisation', a word that everyone connected with health and social care is hearing at the moment.
Person Centred Thinking and Planning are key to making Personalisation work, and be more than a buzz-word.
We're looking for people's stories, articles and links that will enhance this personalisation page.
To visit the page, click the link below:
PERSONALISATION PAGE
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Helen Smith: Accredited
as a Person Centred Review
Trainer |
Helen Smith: "An Exceptional Trainer"
Central Lancashire's PCP coordination team is celebrating today as Helen Smith has received her accreditation as a trainer in Person Centred Reviews.
Gill Bailey, of Helen Sanderson Associates was Helen's mentor. In her evaluation of Helen's skills, she said:
"You are an exceptional trainer... your knowledge of the content is excellent. You are a fantastic facilitator and without doubt should be accredited. I thought you were super"
 
Person Centred Review Training in full swing
This accreditation means that Helen is now able to deliver the Person Centred Review training to train people to become facilitators of Person Centred Reviews. She can also deliver training on the diverse range of person centred thinking tools available.
Together with Max Neill, person centred planning coordinator, who is accredited in delivering Essential Lifestyle Planning and person centred thinking tools, the team are now able to deliver a wide range of training to enable organisations to embed person centred approaches into their core work and really focus on supporting people in a way that enables people to make positive changes in their lives.
Max Neill said "I'm not surprised at all that Helen has done so well. She has a deep understanding of Person Centred Thinking and is doing great work promoting it across the area. Person Centred Reviews are a very powerful way of thinking with a person about their life, and can lead to big changes that can enable the person to get more of what is important to them in their lives"
Helen celebrates with some of the new Person Centred Review Facilitators
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Visitor from Australia
Janet Lewin, a 'Learning and People Development Advisor' with Scope Victoria based in Melbourne Australia visited Central Lancashire on a research visit to the UK.
In this picture Janet is meeting Max Neill, one of our PCP coordinators, who put her in touch with several of the organisations she is visiting.
Max Neill and Janet Lewin
Janet visited lots of different organisations that provide services to people with learning disabilities, to find out about how Person Centred Planning and Individualised Budgets will affect the way people with disabilities, and the services that support them, hire and train their staff.
She went to a meeting of the Chorley and South Ribble Person Centred Planning Task Group on 16th April, and spoke at the 'Person Centred Culture' Day we held on the 28th April. She also visited several of the organisations that support people with learning disabilities in our area.
Janet said she was very impressed by the involvement of family members in Person Centred Planning in our area, and the way that we are trying to open up Person Centred Thinking so that everyone can use it.
She says she has already learned a lot that she will be taking back to Australia.
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100 people came to the Person Centred Culture Day!
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"No Culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive"
Gandhi |
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100 People attend Person Centred Culture Day
This was a day where people from across Central Lancashire who care about using person centred approaches to help people make their lives better came together to think about building a 'Person Centred Culture'
The day was held on 28th April at St Joseph's Club in Chorley.
100 people from 36 different groups and organisations attended.
The feedback we got from the day was brilliant.
Person Centred Culture - click here for full report and pictures
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There was a performance of 'Stronger' at Leyland's Worden Arts Centre on 31st January 2008 |
'STRONGER'
31st January 2008 - Worden Arts Centre
Award winning 'Women and Theatre' performed a new piece of theatre about the lives of families with children with disabilities at the Worden Arts Centre in Leyland to an audience of family carers.
The play explored the lives of two couples, on holiday on a Mediterranean Island, one couple worried about their future with a young baby that might be disabled, the other couple taking stock of their lives after 15 years of bringing up their own kids.
The play raised awareness, and gave a forum for open discussion around the pressures that many families with a disabled child are facing, and what strengthens them.
People who watched the play found it thought provoking and it generated some heartfelt discussion at the end of the performance.
Commissioned by 'Scope', STRONGER was created through research with the help of family members.
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Dynamic New PCP Coordinator Takes Up Her Post
"Hi, I'm Helen Smith and
I have started my new job
as the new Person Centred Planning Coordinator in West Lancashire. Max and I will be working as a team to develop Person Centred Practice across Central Lancashire.
I have been working in West Lancashire for the last year running a drop-in project called the AIR Project so I know a bit about the area.
I am looking forward to meeting a lot of new people and services and making a real difference in my new role.
If you would like to contact me, please click here."
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Chorley and South Ribble did an audit into Person Centred Planning and Thinking, and how it affects people's lives.
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More Person Centred Planning and Thinking is changing people's lives in Chorley and South Ribble
A recent audit into Person Centred Thinking and Planning in Chorley and South Ribble shows that more planning is happening and that it is leading to some great outcomes for people in our area.
To read the audit click here
To read a more accessible version of the audit click here
To see a presentation about the audit click here
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'Valuing People Now: From Progress to Transformation'
You can send your views on this consultation to the Valuing People Support Team
'Valuing People Now'
Easy read version
Consultation Questionnaire
"It is a human rights issue that all people with learning disabilities have the choices and control over their lives that so many of us take for granted - a life like any other"
Alan Johnson, Secretary of State for Health |
Valuing People Now
'Valuing People Now' has a lot to say about Person Centred Planning as a key way to improve the personalisation of services:
"person centred planning has been shown to work. The world's largest study into person centred planning described how it helps people get improvements in their lives"
The document also points out how much there is still to be done:
"too few people have access to proper person centred planning, receive a direct payment or are involved with an individual budget.
In too many local authorities, person centred planning is not at the centre of how things are done.
The challenge for the next three years is to take all this innovative work and make sure that more - and eventually all - people have real choice and control over their lives and services"
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The Priorities in 'Valuing People Now'
'Valuing people Now' has 4 big priorities:
1. People having more choice and control over their lives and services (personalisation)
2. What people do in the days and evenings (including getting a paid job)
3. People being healthy and getting a good service from the NHS
4. People having more choices about where they live
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We will be thinking and talking about 'Valuing People Now' in our Partnership Board and Task Groups and taking action to make it happen.
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Chorley and South Ribble's PCP Website gets International Recognition
Nan Carle is a Commissioner of Services for people with Developmental Disabilities in Southern Arizona, and a recognised international expert on Community Inclusion.
In an article for 'Community Connecting' Magazine (September 2007) she writes:
"The Chorley and South Ribble Partnership Board has an Excellent web site that discusses Person Centred Thinking Coaching. (www.csrpcp.net)
They describe a Person Centred Thinking Coach as someone who "tries to make sure their organisation and their teams use Person Centred Approaches whenever they support people".
Theirs is one example of progressing our knowledge base about using coaches in organisations that support people with learning disabilities"
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You can read more of what we have written about Person Centred Thinking Coaching here.
Max Neill, our Person Centred Planning Coordinator in Chorley and South Ribble has also had an article on Person Centred Thinking published in the Community Connecting Magazine. Find out more by clicking here.
*Stop Press* A good friend of our website has sent us the following feedback:
"I am in Australia, and the Government in Victoria has listed your website as a very useful resource in person centred planning"
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and an Independent Facilitator from Detroit has written:
"Your website is the most Extraordinary, Humanistic and Empathic web site I have ever visited".
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If you have feedback for our website, at home or overseas, please let us know what you think by contacting us here
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There are lots of things to do in the 'Get Active' List
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Get Active! - Sports and Leisure Opportunities in Chorley and South Ribble
Kevin O' Hara, The Leisure Coordinator from Chorley and South Ribble's Learning Disability Partnership Board has been finding out about exciting sports and leisure opportunities open to people in Chorley and South Ribble.
He has put together the 'Get Active' list that is full of interesting and healthy things to do.
The list includes Disability Multi-Sports with the 'Chorley Challengers', Aerobics and exercise classes, Trampolining, Bocha, Badminton, Basketball, Football, Swimming, Cycling, the Gym or Disco, Games and Sports at Newtrees.
For those more inclined to enjoy a night in the pub there is Karaoke and performers at the Hop Pocket's social evenings!
Click Here to Download the full list
*Updated December 2007*
The list is fully updated, including when the last sessions are before Christmas, and when they restart in the New Year.
Why not make a New Years Resolution to try out a new sport or social activity?
For more information, please contact Kevin O'Hara on 01772 644130
Kevin O'Hara - Chorley and South Ribble's Leisure Coordinator
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Your right to go to college, and to get education that reflects who you are and where you want to go in life. |
Person Centred Planning In Further Education
The government's Department for Education and Skills, along with the Department of Health and the Department for Work and Pensions has brought out a report about the right of people with learning disability to access college and Further Education.
The report is called "Progression Through Partnership".
It states that all people with learning difficulties "have a right to expect high quality services which are person centred and/or personalised to meet need."(p7)
It advocates that this should be done through "person centred planning and Individual Learning Pathways" (p8) and pledges to "ensure that person centred planning is at the heart of all decision making and planning for learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities"(p19).
It recognises some of the work that has already been done around Person Centred Reviews with young people in transition, calling for "person centred transition planning at school which takes into account the developing aspirations and views of the individual with regard to employment, relationships, citizenship, leisure activities etc"(p20)
It is important that we think hard about how we can work together to make these things happen in Central Lancashire.
Click here to read the full report
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June 2007
How to Give The Best Support To Parents With A Learning Disability
The Department for Health, and the Department for Education and Science have put together a good practice guidance about how adult and children's services should work together to improve support for parents with learning disabilities and their children.
You can read the report HERE
Click HERE for an easy-read version of the report
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Two new networks have been set up:
'Change' has set up a network of parents with learning disabilities.
Norah Fry Research Centre has set up a parallel network for professionals working with parents with learning disabilities.
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Local PCP internet Discussion Group Launched |
People who want to ask questions, share news or find out more about Person Centred Planning in Central Lancashire can now join our online PCP group.
It will also be a place where we can talk about success stories, share new developments and articles, templates and graphics to help us with our planning.
To join you can either click here to set up a Google account and apply for membership, or send your email address to us and we will join you up directly.
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Chorley and South Ribble Learning Disability Partnership Board
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16th February 2007
John O'Brien is one of the leading thinkers in the field of disability. He has been a pioneer and lifelong advocate of Person Centred Planning and Inclusion.
Challenging Segregation
His work has inspired all those involved in challenging institutional service-centred practices and values such as segregation and congregation, labelling, low expectations and resistance to creativity and change.
Connecting With The Community
He seeks to develop ongoing learning about how to relate in a human way to people, asserting the rights of everyone to share ordinary places, make choices about their lives, experience respect and belonging, and to find ways to contribute their gifts and abilities to the community.
Learning and Changing
On 16th February, John spoke in Chorley to a meeting of 50 people, which included people who use services, family members and people who provide services.
We thought about Person Centred Planning in relation to four themes: Asking/Listening, Acting/Learning, Conflict/Clarity and Impatience/Endurance.
Click Here to access some of John O'Brien's writings.
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The Video Production Team from Ribblebank and REACT |
Ribblebank PCP Video
People who use the Ribblebank Centre in Preston have put together a great video all about Person Centred Planning - and you can now watch this video online!
Click here to see the Ribblebank PCP Video
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Chorley and South Ribble Partnership Board Website Launch
The Chorley and South Ribble Learning Disability Partnership Board launched our 2 new websites on 18th January at Woodlands in Chorley.
The websites are at
www.csrpb.net and
www.csrpcp.net
We launched them at the ICT suite, so people were able to see the websites on the big screen, and access them directly through the computers.
Despite the highest winds for 20 years, the day was well attended by people who use services, their families, and people who provide services.
People were impressed by the amount of useful information on the websites and their accessible design.
If you were at the launch, or have any opinions on either of the websites please send us your comments and views!
Click here for website flyer
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"One little person, giving all of her time, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history"
Peace Pilgrim
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