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Helping people thrive: stories and lessons in transforming care
- Author:
- WOOD Alicia
- Publisher:
- Books Beyond Words
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Pagination:
- 44
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
A practical guide looking at how to transform the lives of people with a learning disability and/or autism who have been detained in hospital or in long term segregation. The document brings together stories from people who have experienced the system and are now thriving, living in their own homes, in their own communities. They are mainly stories of where Building the Right Support has worked and good commissioning systems, clinicians, care organisations, self-advocates and families have made good things happen. The common threads emerging from the stories include person centred planning and approaches; listening to what people want; commissioners working flexibly with providers; empowered, thoughtful commissioning which interprets and applies the rules sensibly and not in a rigid way; flexibility with funding and double funding so that people have the time and safety net to move on in the best way for them. (Edited publisher abstract)
Home choice
- Author:
- WOOD Alicia
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 6.12.01, 2001, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
People with learning difficulties want the same choices about how they live as everyone else. The author explores why they so seldom get those choices, and how local authorities can overcome the obstacles to change.
The real tenancy test: tenancy rights in supported living
- Authors:
- WOOD Alicia, et al
- Publisher:
- National Development Team for Inclusion
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 31p.
- Place of publication:
- Bath
More and more people with a learning disability have a tenancy. However many people with learning disabilities have tenancies in housing and support services where they do not enjoy real rights, choice and control, usually because their home operates more like a traditional residential care service, where a care provider runs the home and commissioners 'place' people in their home. The Real Tenancy Test is a quick test to be used in supported living and tenancy based supported housing to determine if real tenancy rights are being met. It is designed to get an understanding of whether a tenancy in supported living gives real tenancy rights. It describes important things to consider when planning housing and tenancies for people, including when to use different types of tenancies and how to handle issues of capacity. It says that for the tenancy to be genuine, the following should be happening: a tenancy agreement is in place; the tenant has control over where they live; the tenant has control over who they live with; the tenant has control over who supports them and how they are supported; and the tenant has control over what happens in their home. The Real Tenancy Test asks 11 key questions to determine whether the tenancy is genuine and gives guidance to ensure that the tenants has real tenancy rights.
Supported living: making the move: developing supported living options for people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- WOOD Alicia, GREIG Rob
- Publisher:
- National Development Team for Inclusion
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 28p.
- Place of publication:
- Bath
Many local authorities have changed services from residential care to supported housing for people with learning disabilities. Much of this change has focussed on achieving wider access to welfare benefits and having a tenancy. The aim of supported living to achieve choice, control and community inclusion has been much less of a focus. The result has been a focus on the housing ‘mechanics’ and as a consequence housing rights are often denied in practice, institutional practices continue in supported living and community inclusion and networks are not achieved. Over the coming 3 years, the NDTi Housing and Social Inclusion project will explore how to challenge and overcome some of the barriers that stop the shifting of resources from residential care to make the move towards real supported living. This paper has been written to promote discussion, debate and understanding about the obstacles that currently prevent adults with a learning disability from living in their own home in the ways that they want. Its objectives are to provide information that will help local people and organisations change and improve how they develop and deliver housing and support, and also to help inform national debate and discussion about how the policy and regulatory framework could change to help achieve this objective.
A guide to short breaks: supporting family carers and people with learning disabilities to have short breaks that work for them
- Authors:
- FITZPATRICK Julia, WOOD Alicia
- Publisher:
- Paradigm
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 30p.
- Place of publication:
- Birkenhead
This is a guide written by Paradigm on behalf of the Valuing People Support Team, aimed at family carers and people with learning disabilities. There are sections on: the importance of breaks; what is a short break?; short breaks - a recipe for success; the short breaks menu; essential ingredients; and sharing information and best practice.
Making valuing people real in West Sussex: meeting the challenges for Partnership Boards
- Authors:
- TYSON Andrew, WOOD Alicia
- Journal article citation:
- MCC Building Knowledge for Integrated Care, 10(6), December 2002, pp.43-48.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Valuing People presents a range of challenges for managers and older stakeholders. Partnership Boards are charged with leading the change process. This article sets out the steps that the West Sussex Board has taken to meet these challenges and describes in particular a 'framework for frameworks' that the Board has adopted to produce truly person-centred and inclusive plans. Concludes that stakeholders can be empowered to find their voice where planners commit to an inclusive process.
Making valuing people real in West Sussex: meeting the challenges of the Partnership Board
- Authors:
- O'CALLAGHAN Penny, TYSON Andrew, WOOD Alicia
- Journal article citation:
- Soundtrack, 23, February 2003, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- National Development Team
Looks at how the use of a Partnership Board in West Sussex has helped to ensure that the key aims of Valuing People (rights, inclusion, choice and independence) are met.