People with learning disabilities have helped shape new services that give them more choice and control.
They have helped Surrey County Council as part of a Public Value Review that looked at what is done well and what can be done better.
Michael Gosling, Surrey County Council’s Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Health, said: “We spent a long time listening to the views of people with learning difficulties and the groups that represent them.
“Those views have shaped changes that will give them more choice and control over their care and support and greater independence to live their lives as they choose.
“They have also helped us to find ways of doing things more efficiently to ensure taxpayers’ money goes further.”
Helping more people with learning disabilities live independently in the community and getting better value for money from transport deals are among the ways efficiencies of £8.1 million annually by 2015 will also be achieved.
More than 20,000 adults in Surrey have a learning disability.
To view the public value review, follow this link.
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