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Best Interest Meetings
A Best Interest Meeting is a multidisciplinary meeting for a specific decision around someone’s care or treatment, when a person is deemed to lack the mental capacity to make that decision for themselves. For some people with learning disabilities there will be a best interest meeting about where they live.
It is worth talking to your Social Worker as you start of setting up supported living so they can support the organisation of Best Interest Meetings.
One project shares their experience:
We were a group of three sets of parents united by our desire to set up a housing situation for our daughters and son that would give them long term security. We had known each other for some years and our kids were friends. It seemed obvious that we should do this together and the young adults seemed excited by the idea of sharing. However unbeknownst to us one of them had reservations about sharing with two girls. By the time that we had any best interest meetings we were already along way into the project. If we had done this much earlier we would have avoided a lot of unnecessary stress and an incomplete care package while we looked to find a suitable replacement.
