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Carers of People with a Learning Disability - Have Your Say

Please note: A carer is a family member or a friend who provides unpaid practical and/or emotional support to someone in need of care.

Nottingham City Council and Nottingham Clinical Commissioning Group are currently in the process of reviewing services available to citizens with Learning Disabilities.

As part of this we would like to find out the views of carers on a range of subjects including housing, day and evening opportunities, health and carers assessments. As such we are asking carers of people with a learning disability to complete a survey.  

The survey can either be completed online at www.nottingham.gov.uk/LDcarershys, or via paper version. The survey can be returned to Glenys Townsend, Commissioning & Insight, Third Floor, Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham, NG2 3NG. A freepost envelope is available if required, and can be obtained by contacting Glenys Townsend on 0115 8764833.  We require all forms to be completed and returned by 27th March 2015.

The survey should take around 10 minutes to complete and if contact details are given all completed forms will be entered into a prize drawer for a £30 Victoria Centre Shopping voucher.

We would love to hear from you, your views will help shape the services that we provide and the way we provide them.

Alternatively, if you would prefer to tell us your views in person, we are holding an event on: 

Monday 30th March, 11am -1pm at the Council House, Market Square, Nottingham.

Please contact us on 0115 8764833 or email glenys.townsend@nottinghamcity.gov.uk to let us know if you would like to attend this event.

Glossary of terms : In order to help you to complete the survey, we have included a glossary of terms below to explain any words or terms you may not be familiar with.

Supported Living - Supported living means that you are supported to live in the way you want, your housing and support is built around you rather than you fitting into a service. You choose who you live with (if anyone), you choose where you live, you choose who supports you and how you are supported.

Shared Lives - Shared Lives offers accommodation and support within approved family homes to people.

Extra Care - Extra Care extends the basic sheltered housing concept. Typically there will be more extensive communal facilities including a lounge, activities room, IT suite, shop, provision for at least some meals, and 24 hour care available on site through a team of carers. Extra Care schemes are based on a collection of self-contained dwellings but can be much bigger extending to Extra Care villages of up to 300 properties.

Direct Payments- A direct payment is money that is paid directly to you so you can arrange your own support.