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Branches Out Plant Nursery and Yeoman's Grounds
Maintenance Project are both based in Dartford and support up to 24
people with learning disabilities a day.
Over the years we have seen a lot of changes and therefore
expectations from people have also changed. The Government's White
Paper called 'Valuing People' demands that services become more
flexible and person centred.
This means looking at new ways to meet peoples' needs and
provide a service that celebrates peoples' differences and embraces
choice, independence and community involvement.
In 2007 a feasibility study (an information finding study) was
carried out to look at the future of the both these services. The
study looked at whether the services could join together to become
a viable
social
enterprise. A social enterprise will offer an exciting and
innovative future and deliver improved outcomes for service users,
with greater opportunities for training and employment.
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We now need to look at what that means for the people who access
Branches Out and Yeoman's and we need to hear from everyone who
this is likely to affect.
After the consultation closes on 17th July 2008
we will collect all your comments and views and prepare a report to
share with you in early September.
We would like to hear from:
- everybody who uses the existing service
- parents and carers
- people who might want to use the service in the future
- other service colleagues such as health workers, schools,
colleges etc
- staff & union representatives
- the general public
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