Same as you? Implementation Group
The same as you? Implementation Group (SAYIG) was set up by the Scottish Executive to help achieve better services for people with learning disabilities. The first meeting of the Group was held on 22 June 2001.
What the Group does:
- help to make all the recommendations of The same as you? happen
- lead in planning and advising on the way forward
- identify and recommend priorities for change
- advise Ministers on how The same as you? is improving the quality of lives of people of all ages and their families
The SAYIG Forward Agenda sets out what issues the Group want to focus on for the future.
The Group have recently completed work in 2 short-life working groups on employment and hospital closures. Working for a change? the report of the Employment group and Home at last? the report of the Hospital Closures group were published in 2004.
The Group is publishing 3 new reports on services for people with learning disabilities in March 2006. The reports on advocacy, children's services and day services give an overview of services in these areas and some ideas of good practice or how services have developed since The same as you? was published in 2000. Copies of the reports will be available here. Hard copies and accessible summaries can be requested by email: ASPunit@scotland.gsi.gov.uk
Membership of the Implementation Group
Minutes of previous meetings
Users and Carers Reference Group
The remit of the Group is:
- to represent users and carers interests in The same as you? and to undertake tasks with a users/carer focus
This group continues to meet and consider implementation of The same as you?
Members:
- ENABLE
- People First(Scotland)
- Values into Action
- Carers UK
- PAMIS
- Barnardo's
- Key Housing
- Edinburgh Development Group
- Down's Syndrome Scotland
- SAY Project - Advocating Together(Dundee)
- National Autistic Society
- Quality Action Group/CAN Network
- Mental Welfare Commission
- Hear Here
Minutes of previous meetings
Partnership in Practice (PiP) Network
The PiP Network is made up of people responsible for the Partnership in Practice (PiP) Agreements, representatives from local authorities and the NHS, the Director of the Scottish Consortium for Learning Disability (SCLD) and Scottish Executive officials.
The Network:
- provides a forum for discussion about the implementation of The same as you?
- improves communication on implementation issues between the Scottish Executive, local authorities and the NHS
- circulates information widely within their agency and to their PiP partners in the voluntary and private sector, service users and carers
- sghould develop an electronic communication network. This will enable all of the members to communicate with one another about PiPs and the implementation of The same as you?
- identifies barriers to implementation with the aim of overcoming them
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