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Bexley report: a report to MCCH on a suitable transport policy for its Bexley services
This report presents the findings of and recommendations from the study
commissioned by MCCH to advise on a comprehensive transport policy for MCCH
to use in providing services in both its residential homes and day-care centres in
Bexley.
It describes the current positions of transport supply for, and of transport demand
by the community of people with learning difficulties in the London Borough of
Bexley. It also considers the extent to which the transport supply is meeting or not
meeting the transport demands and the expressed needs of the people and/or
their representatives. The report considers the implications for improvement in
transport provision of certain proposed actions by MCCH.
Finally, the report presents some recommendations based on a user-centred
strategy to help MCCH incorporate their concept of empowering their service
users through suitable transport provision.
This study has been conducted with the ethos and operational objectives of the
MCCH group firmly in mind. MCCH has an objective to enhance quality of life for
their service users and is very concerned with ensuring that its service users are
enabled to exercise the rights and opportunities of citizenship with particular
reference to freedom of choice in time and mode of travel.
MCCH holds that real improvement in services to learning disability people must
include increased range and choice of people-centred opportunities that address
the total needs and aspirations of service users and their carers, underpinned by
values and principles of good practice. Thus MCCH desires to put back in the
control of users, the lever of decision making as regards services provided to
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them and intends to do this by actively eliciting user/stakeholders involvement in
decision-making.
Contrary to the standard social service transport provision style, MCCH desires to
create choice for service-users, feeling that people should be able to decide
whether, e.g. to go by bus or train and be supported in their decision and not be
constrained by the schedule of the provided transport.
The specific terms of reference for this study are
1. To examine the current demand for, and provision of, transport within
MCCH’s Bexley services. To assess how best these services might be
reconfigured and managed, having regard to:
· Desire to increase empowerment and choice for service users
· Optimizing the integration of the transport management in Bexley within
MCCH’s organization, in the light of most efficient use of resources and
practice elsewhere in MCCH
· Desire to better integrate residential services with day services in
Bexley
· MCCH’s intention to reconfigure Bexley day services
· The move of service users towards ‘supported living’ as opposed to
registered care
· The objectives and concerns of all parties involved, including Bexley
Social Services, Bexley Transport Services, the parents/relatives/carers
of the service users and the service users themselves
· The way vehicles are currently owned and funded
· Efficiency and cost
2. To produce outline proposals, plans and specifications of how a
reconfigured transport service would look and operate, including details of
resource requirements in enough detail to allow reasonably accurate
costing to be derived
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