Learning with Families: Involving Families in Staff Training

Valuing People calls for a new relationship between families and staff in learning disability services. It proposes that the voices of family carers be heard, and that they should be treated as partners in policy development and implementation, including their involvement in staff training and development. The Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities has developed a tool to help staff and families to work better together. The result is a training resource called Learning with Families ‐ a training resource with a difference: the contents were developed by family carers, who are also being encouraged to deliver the training, alongside professionals, to staff who work in learning disability services, in order to improve their understanding of the experiences of families.