1. How do we know if the plan is accurate? Phil Madden EASPD May 2008 Sarajevo

2. 1.1. The Dictatorship of the proletariat  We know what people want, so we don’t need to ask.

3. Asking key groups 2.2.  Collators  Guides  Brokers  Lobbyists

4. 3.  Centred for Independent Living (CIL’s)  User Led Organisations (ULO’s)  Advocacy Groups  Carers Centred

5. 4. Learning Disability Partnership Boards  In every Local Authority.  Strategic Plans which must be approved by central government.  Membership of officials, families, people with intellectual disability.  Wide variation in quality / effectiveness / styles.  Have no ultimate authority.

6. 5. Reaching out to hard to reach groups  The usual suspects danger.  “The seduction of Glittering Crumbs”  Giving a voice to the voiceless.

7. 6.  Aggregation of  Referrals  Assessments  Person Centred Plans

8. 7.  Research  Demographic change

9. 8. Does the plan have substance?  Not cosmetic  Not diversionary