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Working in partnership
Working alongside Primary Care Trusts and Local Authorities, we constantly strive to design and deliver new needs-led services, which focus on the principles of choice and independence, enabling people to live within their local community and have fulfilled lives.
In addition to these partnerships, we also believe it is incredibly important to be working closely with the people that use our services, their families and carers. People using our services can expect us to give it our best shot to work with them to achieve their own personal goals. We’re all one team, regardless of who we are – the people we work with, families, carers , LAs, PCTs and Craegmoor staff.
Referral Hotline
For any queries regarding placements in our services please call 0800 0232 595. This dedicated line has been provided to make your life simpler and to ensure that you receive prompt and informative details on locating a suitable placement.
Progressive Communication Through Intensive Interaction
“Valuing People Now”: a three year strategy for people with a learning disability (VPN)” and the recently released consultation Strategy document for people with Autism, both embrace the philosophy of supporting people to become empowered citizens. One clear objective of these documents is ensuring that people with disabilities are enabled to voice their choices in life. In fact the VPN strategy endorses that people with a learning disability should be enabled and supported to “develop and use appropriate communication systems” and in particular highlights those with ”little or no verbal communication” (VPN 2009). This explicit endorsement in a government strategy document positions techniques such as Intensive Interaction as an approach that should be made available to everyone with a learning disability who might benefit.
Wider adoption of approaches such as Intensive Interaction is being developed across a number of Craegmoor services lead by our Quality Development Advisor in Engagement and Involvement, Vicki Burley, following some outstanding outcomes from some initial trials. Using innovative, alternative communication techniques such as Intensive Interaction has meant that people in our services who others may have found hard to reach have seen small but significant improvements which have enhanced their lives.