Annual review: Support

Some of our main work

We gave support to many people with a learning disability in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

We worked hard to do that during Covid-19.

Our support services help people to do important things like:

• Go shopping and cook.
   
• Get a job.

• Meet friends and do new things.
   
• Use computers and the internet.

We want to support people with a learning disability to have the life they want.

We started an exciting new way to do that.

We plan to ask people every year about different parts of their lives.

Like money and relationships .

That will help people to decide what is working well for them and what they want to change.

Then we can support people to make the changes they want.

We are also trying out a new way to work with our support staff.

For example, we are making sure that they have better information and support.

And we are making sure they can make more decisions on their own.

That should help our staff to work better with people with a learning disability to give them the support they want.

We will see how this idea works in more support services next year.

We have supported many people with a learning disability to get work or lean important skills for work.

For example, we are supporting many companies to give work and training to people with a learning disability.

• We have some projects to give better support to children and families.
   
• We also looked at many of the support services we give people. That helped us to see what to carry on and what to change.