There’s less than a month to go for the public to get involved in the County Council’s consultation on services for people with Learning Disabilities.
The closing date for comment is 9 December so there is still plenty of time to have your say.
Currently, the Council’s in-house Learning Disabilities Provider Service (LDPS) provides services for just under half of adults with learning disabilities. The rest are supported by services delivered by other organisations.
The Council is considering whether it should increase the amount of its support for people with Learning Disabilities provided by other organisations.
The consultation is seeking people’s views on three possible options:
- Leave things are they are. The LDPS would continue to be owned and run by Somerset County Council
- Somerset County Council will create a new organisation that is separate from the Council, for example a publicly-owned trust or a not-for-profit organisation, and transfer all or some of the LDPS to that new organisation
- Ask other care providers to bid to take on all or some of the LDPS.
Service users, carers and families have been directly approached to take part in the consultation. The wider public can complete a survey by visiting the website. For more information visit www.somerset.gov.uk/LDinfo.