West Lancs Positive Living 30th November 2011, a set on Flickr.
West Lancs Positive Living, based in Skelmersdale, West Lancashire celebrated their award for best small social enterprise given by the Selnet Enterprise In Society Awards 2011, by having a slap up meal at the Bull and Dog pub and restaurant in Burscough, West Lancashire.West Lancs Positive Living supports people with a Learning Disability who live in the family home or who live in a home of their own. When the time is right for an individual to move out of the family home, we help them plan to decide how, where and with whom they want to live.
All the people we support choose where they want to live. They also choose who supports them; they have an active role in recruiting their staff. Having highly-motivated, well-trained staff, that know the person they support well and who are trusted by that person, is fundamental to the way we provide a service.
The staff at West Lancs Positive Living can help you find out about Personalised Budgets, Self-Directed Support and Direct Payments and how to secure the service you want for the life you want to lead.
“Support to live the life you want without the worry” The future of Social Care Funding means everyone will have their own Individualised Budget. This means people will have control over every aspect of their lives. West Lancs Positive Living is ideally placed for people with Learning Disabilities to seek advice and to buy a service from us.
I regularly come across the West Lancs Positive Living gang at local community events (most recently at the West Lancs Mayoress Charity Rudolph run at Edge Hill University in December)and I am struck by how much gusto they throw themselves into these activities; they all demonstrate that physical and mental disabilities need not be barriers to having fun and actively partcipitating in community life.
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