What steps are being taken to enable people with learning disabilities to influence the development and implementation of policy.

People withlearning disabilities are directly involved in the development andimplementation of policy at local and national level. Half of the board membersof the Scottish Consortium for Learning Disability are people with learningdisabilities or family carers. The same as you? National Implementation Group hasfour people with learning disability as members. Our users and carers referencegroup that helped shape learning disability policy in Scotland continues to meet to advise onimplementation. A third of the members are people with learning disabilities.
People withlearning disabilities are involved in the recruitment of local areaco-ordinators and in the work of NHS Education for Scotland in training for nurses. The MentalWelfare Commission has also recently advertised for a person with a learningdisability to be employed as a part-time commissioner.