
Cumbria early intervention pilot
The CBF and the Tizard Centre worked with colleagues leading the Transforming Care workforce strategy in Cumbria to pilot an evidence-based early intervention approach in the county.
The CBF's 'Getting It Right' project helps improve both national and local support and services for children and adults with severe learning disabilities and their families.
Getting It Right is a 3 year project (2019-2022) funded by the National Lottery Community fund. The aim is that by the end of the project there are:
The project can be divided into three interconnected streams:
In year 1 we worked with West Sussex local area to deliver the strategic local input stream of the project.
The agreed aim of the Getting It Right project in West Sussex was that children and young people (0-25) with learning disabilities at risk of displaying behaviours that challenge will receive the right support, in the right place and at the right time, from well informed professionals and staff so they can live a happier and more inclusive life in their community.
The West Sussex steering group produced a logic model which can be found here
In February and March 2020 two focus groups were held in West Sussex to gather the views of family carers about existing support and services, and families’ vision for future support in the local area.
Read a summary of the focus groups here
During summer 2020 family carers across West Sussex were invited to complete an online survey about their experience of support and services for their relative. 99 families responded to the survey. Some families also participated in more in-depth telephone interviews.
The findings are being written up and will soon be posted here. For a summary of the findings, please watch Gráinne’s presentation video below.
Due to Covid-19, planned Positive Behaviour Support workshops for family carers were moved online and run jointly by West Sussex professionals and CBF family carer trainers. Three sessions were run between October and November 2020 and were attended by family carers of children and young people with learning disabilities living in West Sussex.
In December 2020 we held a virtual West Sussex stakeholder engagement event, bringing together family carers, learning disability professionals and third sector organisations from across West Sussex. The aim of the event was to share learning from the project so far, including initial findings from the online survey of family carers, and to work together to come up with actions.
A workshop was held in the CB-NSG meeting in May 2021, during which the group discussed how to better engage with different groups of families and how to best cater for individuals with a variety of needs. The group also agreed several ideas to take forward to better connect families with each other.
Read the presentation and the group actions
The Getting It Right project in West Sussex has been independently evaluated.
Read the independent evaluation
Thank you to all the West Sussex families who contributed their time, thoughts and suggestions over the course of this project.
In year 2 of the project we’ll be working with the Black Country. We’ll update this page of the website with progress going forward.
If you are interested in finding out more about the local area strand of the project please contact mary@thecbf.org.uk
This strand of the project is focused on influencing change at a national level. The Getting It Right project is helping us to continue and enhance the work of the Challenging Behaviour – National Strategy Group and its sub groups.
Find out more about the CB-NSG and their latest work
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The CBF and the Tizard Centre worked with colleagues leading the Transforming Care workforce strategy in Cumbria to pilot an evidence-based early intervention approach in the county.
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