All Age Learning Disability Partnership Board: Annual Report 2024-2025
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Inclusion and amplifying the voices of people with a learning disability is a key priority for the work of Healthwatch Kingston and the All Age Learning Disability Board.
The All Age Learning Disability Partnership Board was set up by Kingston Council. The Board is co-chaired by Healthwatch Kingston and local people with learning disabilities.
All Age Learning Disability Strategy
One of the key roles of the All Age Learning Disability Partnership Board is to make sure the All Age Learning Disability Strategy is working.
The strategy was written together with people who have learning disabilities, their families, health and social care staff, and community organisations. This is called co-production.
The strategy ran from 2018-2022. The All Age Learning Disability Partnership is working on updating the strategy.
We are at the beginning of this process and we want to hear from people with lived experience – including people with learning disabilities, their families and carers.
If you would like to be involved as a professional or expert by experience, please get in touch:
Our work 2024-2025
Healthwatch Kingston have continued to speak to, and work with people with learning disabilities, ensuring that health and social care providers understand the barriers they face.
Supporting the Autism and ADHD Strategy
We have been involved in shaping Kingston's new five-year strategy to improve support for autistic people and those with ADHD.
This strategy was co-produced with over 240 local residents, including autistic people, people with ADHD, and their supporters.
Healthwatch Kingston played a role in gathering feedback and ensuring that the voices of people with learning disabilities were heard in the development of this strategy.
Kingston Safeguarding Voices
Through Kingston Safeguarding Voices (KSV), we work with residents, advocates, and professionals to make safeguarding more transparent, accessible, and person-centred.
Kingston Safeguarding Voices gives the local community a voice on how safeguarding works locally in Kingston.
Including Communities and Including Digitally Excluded Reports
We published our Including Communities and Including Digitally Excluded reports, and we returned to the groups who had supported our engagement, including Kingston Eco-op.
We shared our Easy Read versions of both reports and asked what questions we could ask during our engagement to understand the health and care needs of socially isolated, physically Disabled adults.
