North West Getting a Life Resource

Gill Goodwin, one of Paradigm's associate consultants has recently completed a 9 month secondment to the North West Valuing People Now Team, working on the regional Getting a Life programme. This guide has been written to share learning and suggest some ideas for both review and implementation. In the summer of 2010, the North West became the third of 3 regions to appoint regional Getting a Life co-ordinators. The role of these workers was to support the region to learn from the national Getting a Life programme and to • raise the profile of this approach and share learning from across the North West To read this report please download the report in the left hand column or for more information please email Jeanette at jeanetteg@paradigm-uk.org
• offer support to local areas to review their current activity in relation to young people who have learning disabilities and work.
• develop a regional resource to give advice and guidance on implementation.

