All Wales Forum

All Wales Forum of Parents and Carers of People with Learning Disabilities

Break from the Routine – Respite

Short-breaks and the lack of choice for learning disability family carers accessing them has been identified as an area of concern. Some of the current provision if often described by families as inflexible and unresponsive

As a result, this can lead to families and carers becoming isolated and having a negative effect on their physical and mental health.

 

What is our Goal?

Break from the Routine will develop a suite of creative and flexible offers. Therefore, they will respond to the needs of learning disability family carers and their loved ones that can be ‘self-funded’ or paid for through Direct Payments.

 

What does this look like?

So, what does this look like? An example of co-production of services to meet the needs of the family would be an example from Scotland, where the Respitality network connects local businesses and amenities to carers to access well earned breaks using the local and regional facilities that are available.

We are looking at trailing a version of Res

Find our more about Respitality Scotland here .

What impact will Break from the Routine have?

To sum up, Breaks from the Routine project strand will work with learning disability family carers to:

  • Secure rights and entitlements, including control over day-to-day life
  • Improve physical, mental and emotional health
  • Protect vulnerable people from neglect and abuse
  • Improve domestic, family and personal relationships
  • Support individuals to make an active contribution to society

How will we do it?

So how will we do it? The Break from the Routine strand will focus on three schemes to improve respite and short breaks options –

Staycation – LD Families needing breaks will build peer connections to retain choice and flexibility through exchanging accommodation options

Direct Breaks – LD Families are empowered and enabled to utilise Direct Payments together as a real choice-led option for respite support

Respitality – LD Families can trail the experience of meaningful breaks within their community’s hospitality industry

How can I get involved?

So, your interested, but how can you get involved? You will be able to by –

  • Talking to us – Digital and face to face conversations

  • Working with us – Engagement working groups

  • Innovating with us – Pilot projects

Have your say

So you a carer of a family member with a learning disability? Seeing that the decisions made may affect the services you receive, why not have your say?

You have your say.

At this time there are plenty of ways that you can do this –

  • Firstly, fill out a Sign Up Form at the top of the page or below
  • Find out about our upcoming events 
  • Secondly, check out the resources on our Digital Forum
  • Follow us and chat on our social media channels @AllWalesForum
  • Alternatively, contact us directly via the details below

 

Contact us

If you have any questions about the project and would like to talk to a member of the team, please email us or call us via the details below. We will endeavour to get back to you as quickly as possible.

Email us: caringcommunities@allwalesforum.org.uk

Phone us: 07976 223992

Write to us – The All Wales Forum, 21 Cardiff Road, Taff’s Well, Cardiff CF15 7RB

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