The keys to life - Improving Quality of Life for People with Learning Disabilities EASY READ version

Shifting the culture and keeping safe

Shifting the culture is about helping people with learning disabilities to make friends and have relationships. It is also about being supported and protected.

What are our recommendations on shifting the culture and keeping safe?

The Scottish Consortium for Learning Disability and ENABLE should work with local voluntary services to:

• Help people to set up befriending services
• Work with local authorities and NHS Boards to make sure befriending services are included in their plans
• Record the number of people using befriending services

We will work with other organisations and hold a friendship event by the end of 2013. This will help people with learning disabilities to be supported to have more friends.

We will do research to find out how people with learning disabilities and their family and carers cope with different situations.

This will help us to find out what kind of support people need to cope with different situations.

We will give more money to help people with learning disabilities and their families get access to short breaks.

We will work with ENABLE to make sure that emergency plans are put in place to support people with learning disabilities and carers.

Parents with learning disabilities should have access to local supported parenting services.

We want to make sure that people working with parents with learning disabilities follow the 'Scottish good practice guidelines for supporting parents with learning disabilities'.