The North Yorkshire Learning Disability Partnership Board works to make services for people with learning disabilities better.
We promote the independence, rights, choice and inclusion of people with a learning disability, people with autism, families and carers across North Yorkshire.
About our members
Our members come from all across North Yorkshire. We all want to make life better for people with a learning disability. We have members from North Yorkshire County Council, disability and health services, voluntary groups, advocacy organisations, family carers, and of course, self-advocates with a learning disability.
Everyone can talk and agree on what needs to be done. They can also check that the work they are doing fits in with what everyone else is doing.
About our meetings
We usually meet twice a year in different places in North Yorkshire.
Our meetings are co-chaired by a self-advocate with a learning disability and a community member. Our current co-chairs are Mark Hamblin, a self-advocate from Scarborough and Katie Peacock from Exclusively Inclusive in Skipton.
Our meetings are accessible for everyone. We use easy read information for our agendas, our minutes and our presentations.
We are working on new easy read Terms of Reference. You can read our current Terms of Reference here.
About our work
We are always busy! You can see our easy read work plan here. We have four main themes to our work. Click on the links below to find out more and to see some of our work:
We also do lots of work on making sure information is accessible. Find out more here
About our other groups
To be able to do all the things in our work plan, we have different groups where people can have a say and get involved. The main groups are:
North Yorkshire Health and Wellbeing Group
The North Yorkshire Health and Wellbeing Group meets three times a year. It brings together people with a learning disability, health professionals and service providers to lead our work on ‘Staying Healthy’. Read more about the Health and Wellbeing Group here.
North Yorkshire Learning Disability Partnership Board Forum
The Forum take place four times a year. It makes sure the voice of people with learning disabilities is part of everything we do. Read more about the forum here.
