Aims and Objective

Our Aims

• Lifelong Family Links will work in partnership with children/young people and adults with a disability, their carers, relatives and community based service providers to develop flexible services within the community.
• We will work to endure that the views of children and adults with a disability remain at the heart of our work and at the heart of the work of others.
• We will do this by remaining financially strong, and by recruiting, retaining and developing excellent staff and strong leadership.

Our Objectives

• To develop and deliver a range of services, which complement and/or supplement those, provided by statutory and other support agencies, and to work towards ensuring that current statutory and non-statutory services respond to legislative changes and evidence based on good practice.
• To participate in a range of local partnerships to share information, good practice and resources to enable the development of responsive services, which change over time as children’s and adults needs and wishes change.
• To provide a range of accessible and relevant information and advice about a wide range of issues important to children and adults with learning disabilities and their carers.
• To support people with disabilities, to be at the centre of planning and help ensure that family members and friends are partners in planning, and to involve as many agencies and individuals as is necessary to improve the lives of children and adults with disabilities.

 
Our Values
 

• We believe that everyone is entitled to an active and fulfilling existence, full human and civil rights and to feel valued as a member of the community.
• We seek to reduce the disadvantage and discrimination experienced by children and adults with a disability
• We support user empowerment and development of services that are responsive to user needs and wishes
• We recognise that family and friends of children and adults with disabilities may experience disadvantage and discrimination because of their caring responsibilities. We seek to support them in their role and not disadvantage them further by our work.  

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