Joint Physical Disability Strategy
This Strategy addresses the needs of people aged from 18-64 years of age who have physical and complex disability. People who experience disability due to physical impairments, or have complex problems, where physical and cognitive impairment occur together, represent a significant proportion of the Scottish population.
This strategy has been developed jointly by Perth & Kinross Council, NHS Tayside including Perth & Kinross Community Health Partnership in consultation with all our partners, including in particular, service users and carers and local voluntary organisations.
The Joint Physical Disability Strategy:
- Provides the strategic framework for the future development of services for carers, through which service users, carers and service providers can be supported to work together, so that needs, and demands, can be met more effectively with available resources.
- Establishes a shared understanding of the issues and priorities where some form of intervention is required.
- Sets out an Action Plan on how these issues and priorities will be addressed by the Council, NHS Tayside including Perth and Kinross Community Health Partnership and their partners.
- Sets objectives, and shows how progress will be monitored, and impact evaluated.
- Identifies how the Strategy contributes to the achievement of the Scottish Government?s national priorities and the wider objectives as identified in the Single Outcome Agreement and Community Plan.
While focusing on physical and complex disability, it is recognised that people may have a range of needs and these may be covered by separate strategies, (e.g. learning disability, which includes autism spectrum disorders and Asperger?s Syndrome, and mental health).
It is also recognised that, currently, disabled people, who reach 65, move on to older people?s services, and at that time the Joint Strategy for Older People then becomes relevant.
