Valuing People: A New Strategy for Learning Disability for the 21st Century (Department of Health 2001) has a major part to play in our foundation for it places people with learning disabilities in the context of their families. Families Leading Planning UK builds on this concept to ensure that people with learning disabilities and their families get a ‘better deal’ beyond 2006!
We welcome the significant power-shift from the historical process of planning for people with learning disabilities to planning with them and their families to bringing about positive changes in their lives

Our aims:

• To ensure that person centred planning becomes the norm when planning with people with learning disabilities and their families;

• To put what we have learned from planning in this way into building capacity for organisational, system and social change;

• To help society understand, recognise and celebrate the work families do on behalf of their sons and daughters to enhance the ‘life-chances’ of their children;

• To celebrate how person centred planning can contribute to people with learning disabilities and their families being valued as equal citizens in our society.