By Iveren McCallion
People with learning disabilities and their families have helped create a five-year plan for short break services.
Twenty-four recommendations were made to ensure best practice and to change the way short breaks are commissioned and supported.
The Northern Trust is now looking for people to join a forum that will help deliver the plans.
They want carers, people with learning disabilities, respite service providers or advocates for users and their families to get involved.
Head of Service Donna Morgan said, "We want to encourage people who are involved in short break services to have a say in the future of how they will be run. Everyone will share power to make the plans work. We will respect everybody's strengths and differences and treat everyone the same. If necessary, we will help service users get to and from any meetings. We really want the people affected to feel heard and believe this is the best way to make sure we deliver a great service."
If you are interested and fall into one of the groups you can get in touch with the Northern Trust by calling 028 9441 3334 or emailing shirley.clarke@northerntrust.
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