MacIntyre

MacIntyre is delighted to support the National Family Week; as a national charity providing support services for adults and children with learning disabilities including people with Autistic Spectrum Conditions MacIntyre was founded in 1966 by families and they continue oversight and governance to this day. Much has improved in the intervening years but families continue to tell us that much remains to be done. Families continue to have major concerns around transition from children to adult services, insufficient and inflexible short-term breaks, lack of information and a continued sense of professional collusion, which excludes rather included them in decision making. MacIntyre is trying to make a positive difference by implementing a genuinely person centred approach which is fully inclusive of the family, which supports the person or child with a disability to have increasing choice and control and to enjoy the continued, lifelong support of family and friends.
Bill Mumford, Managing Director

Website: www.macintyrecharity.org

About MacIntyre

Established in 1966 by Kenneth Newton Wright, the parent of a disabled child, MacIntyre has grown to become a leading national charity, highly respected and committed to setting standards and increasing choice.

We provide learning, support and care for more than 1000 children and adults with learning disabilities, at more than 120 MacIntyre services across the UK. Our diverse range of services includes registered care homes, supported living schemes, accredited training schemes and lifelong learning services, as well as residential special schools and a further education college.

Services for Children & Young People

MacIntyre has been providing a diverse range of integrated services for children and young people since we opened our first school in 1966.

We now operate highly specialist education and residential care services for children and young people with learning disabilities and autism. Our facilities include two residential schools at Womaston, in Powys, and Wingrave, in Buckinghamshire, and a specialist college in Oxfordshire. In addition, we have developed No Limits, a bespoke, community-based education and support programme which offers an alternative to traditional post-16 services.

Our vision is of an environment where diversity and individuality are celebrated and respected and where we offer improved and personalised outcomes for the children and young people we support.

Our mission is to support children and young people in acquiring skills and experiences so that they may take their rightful place in society as valued and contributing members.

We achieve this by providing education and support that:

• works and respects parents and carers as partners in the educational process
• acknowledges each individual as a lifelong learner and a contributing member of the world, and recognises and promotes individual ability
• serves students in the least restrictive settings and provides learning opportunities in a variety of environments
• challenges the creativity of students and staff
• uses shared expertise from all professionals
• teaches skills and attitudes that lead to a greater level of independence
• creates goals that focus on desirable outcomes for each student
• reflects the quality of service delivery expected of MacIntyre
• is fun and gives pleasure in the recognition of achievement

My Way

My Way is an innovative service that supports young people to make the transition from school to their new adult life. My Way focuses on self-directed support.

My Way can offer to

• Work with Local Authorities to establish an individual budget (a sum of money) that a person can use to spend on the support they need
• Design a plan with the person, their family and friends that describes the support they need to live the life they choose
• Plan how to manage the individual budget and work with the person, using their plan, to arrange the support they need

Celebrating Families Partnership Project

This is a partnership between MacIntyre and Helen Sanderson Associates offering families the chance to think about ways to enhance family life, become more empowered and in control of the services their family receives.