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Personal Budget Cuts: Call for Evidence

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We have been contacted by a number of families who have been through reviews of their relative’s support packages and have had their budgets cut.

If this has happened to you please get in touch with OxFSN and tell us what happened. We are trying to compile evidence so we can get a clearer picture of what is happening and if necessary challenge.

If you have recently had a review for your relative or have one booked in the coming months, please could you get in touch with OxFSN so we can advise.

Follow this link to read more: Personal budget cuts – Call for Evidence

Better Together Event Report

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OxFSN’s Better Together event was held on the 8th of November 2018 at the Kassam Stadium in Oxford and attended by 117 people.

53 professionals from Health, Social Care, Education and the voluntary sector attended along with 60 family carers of children or adults with learning disabilities and/or autism and seven people with learning disabilities and their supporters.

Follow the link to read the full report: Better Together Event Report

Joint Statement from the Oxfordshire Transforming Care Partnership Board: Review into the deaths of people with learning disabilities 2017-18

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Joint Statement from the Oxfordshire Transforming Care Partnership Board:
Oxfordshire review into the deaths of people with learning disabilities 2017-18

Statement from the co-chairs of Oxfordshire’s Transforming Care Partnership Board

“While we have known for many years that people with learning disabilities die earlier than the general population, the Learning Disability Mortality Review report made for grim reading and was deeply upsetting.

As co-chairs of Oxfordshire’s Transforming Care Partnership Board we feel it is important that we make public the work that is being done locally to explain how deaths of people with learning disabilities are investigated in our county. Despite the lower numbers of deaths reviewed, it is clear that there is still much work to be done to address these inequalities. We are however pleased that all deaths are now being reviewed in such detail. We welcome the recommendations contained in this report and the spirit of transparency and openness in which it has been shared.“

Gail Hanrahan (Oxfordshire Family Support Network) and Paul Scarrott (My Life My Choice)

Follow the link to read the full statement: Oxfordshire Transforming Care Partnership Board: Oxfordshire review into the deaths of people with learning disabilities 2017-18

OxFSN: Response to Proposed Changes to Adult Social Care Contributions

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Proposed Changes to Adult Social Care Contributions Policy by Oxfordshire County Council and Possible implications for people with a learning disability.

Oxfordshire County Council are proposing to streamline the current policy for assessing financial contributions. The consultation on this is open until April 3rd 2018

OxFSN believes that the council are genuinely seeking to simplify and speed up this process, and we understand why there is a particular focus on older people, as the largest group of people in receipt of social care services. However, we are deeply concerned that this is likely to have a much bigger impact on those with the most complex needs…

Read the response in full here:

Download (PDF, OxFSN-Response-to-Proposed-Changes-to-Adult-Social-Care-Contributions-Policy-Implications-for-people-with-Learning-disabilities.pdf)

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