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Making written information easier to understand for people with learning disabilities: guidance for people who commission or produce easy read information: revised edition 2010
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 37p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
Good practice guidance on commissioning and preparing easy read information for people with learning disabilities. Main areas covered include: defining easy read, commissioning material, and involving people with learning disabilities. Short case study examples are included. An additional section briefly covers other formats, such as audio, video/DVD, or interactive CD-ROMs or webpages. Annexes cover: Guidelines for producing Easy Read; Supplementary guidelines for professional typesetting and printing. The document is primarily at local and national public sector organisations who produce public information specifically for people with learning disabilities.
Learning disability strategy: section 7 guidance on service principles and service responses
- Author:
- WALES. Welsh Assembly Government
- Publisher:
- Wales. Welsh Assembly Government
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
The main focus of this guidance is on the person with a learning disability rather than on their families or carers but ,where appropriate, families and carers are mentioned in the text. The contribution that families and carers can make to the unified assessment process is covered within that guidance and carers are, of course, entitled to their own assessment.
Learning disabilities: applying All Our Health
- Author:
- PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Public Health England
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- Updated 2018
Evidence and guidance to help healthcare professionals to improve the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities. Individuals regardless of their age, gender or label should receive care that is based on their unique needs, that is appropriate in its design and effective in its delivery. A learning disability, not to be confused with a learning difficulty such as dyslexia and dyspraxia, is a label given to a group of conditions that are present before the age of 18. This impacts on the way individuals develop in all core areas, and ultimately how they live their lives and access health care. For simplicity, this document has grouped causes and condition. The causes of a learning disability mainly fall into 3 distinct areas, developed in the prenatal period, perinatal period and postnatal period. The guide outlines key facts relating to health and people with a learning disability; core principles for health professionals; and interventions at population, community, and family and individual levels. (Edited publisher abstract)
Good Learning Disability Partnership Boards: 'making it happen for everyone'
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 38p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This good practice guidance has been developed to help Learning Disability Partnership Boards to oversee the monitoring and delivery of Valuing People Now. The contents includes local governance arrangements, membership of Partnership Boards, good and effective meetings, work programmes, performance and financial management, and communication and awareness raising. Best practice examples and a self-assessment template setting out the range of local data that Partnership Boards can access to inorder to assess progress locally are also provided.
Health action planning and health facilitation for people with learning disabilities: good practice guide: easy read
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 28p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This easy read version describe and clarifies good practice in health facilitation and health action planning to reduce health inequalities experienced by people with learning disabilities. It includes ideas for improving health action plans and health facilitation.
Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance for care staff supporting adults with learning disabilities and autistic adults
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health and Social Care
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health and Social Care
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Place of publication:
- London
Guidance for care staff who are supporting adults with learning disabilities and autistic adults during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The guidance includes information on keeping people with learning disabilities and autistic people safe, supporting them to understand the changes they need to make during the COVID-19 outbreak, and helping staff protect their own wellbeing. It includes links to relevant resources. It builds on the COVID-19 adult social care action plan and more detailed guidance published by the Social Care Institute for Excellence. [First published 24 April 2020. Last updated 24 August 2021] (Edited publisher abstract)
Health charter for social care providers
- Author:
- PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Public Health England
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 4
- Place of publication:
- London
A charter for adult social care providers and staff providing information about the steps they can take to improve the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities and improve their access good healthcare. The charter list a number of pledges and specific actions for staff. (Edited publisher abstract)
Winterbourne View review: good practice examples
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 81p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Opened in December 2006, Winterbourne View was a private hospital owned and operated by Castlebeck Care Limited. It was designed to accommodate 24 patients in two separate wards, and was registered as a hospital providing assessment, treatment and rehabilitation for people with learning disabilities. It closed in June 2011 after the Panorama investigation. The government review found that Patients stayed at Winterbourne View for too long and were too far from home – the average length of stay was 19 months. Almost half of patients were more than 40 miles away from where their family or primary carers lived. There was an extremely high rate of ‘physical intervention’ – well over 500 reported cases of restraint in a fifteen month period. Multiple agencies failed to pick up on key warning signs – nearly 150 separate incidents – including A&E visits by patients, police attendance at the hospital, and safeguarding concerns reported to the local council – which could and should have raised the alarm. This good practice example document pulls together a number of good practice examples sent in by stakeholders and people who use services across England.
DH Winterbourne View review: concordat: programme of action
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 17p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Opened in December 2006, Winterbourne View was a private hospital owned and operated by Castlebeck Care Limited. It was designed to accommodate 24 patients in two separate wards, and was registered as a hospital providing assessment, treatment and rehabilitation for people with learning disabilities. It closed in June 2011 after the Panorama investigation. The government review found that Patients stayed at Winterbourne View for too long and were too far from home – the average length of stay was 19 months. Almost half of patients were more than 40 miles away from where their family or primary carers lived. There was an extremely high rate of ‘physical intervention’ – well over 500 reported cases of restraint in a fifteen month period. Multiple agencies failed to pick up on key warning signs – nearly 150 separate incidents – including A&E visits by patients, police attendance at the hospital, and safeguarding concerns reported to the local council – which could and should have raised the alarm. This concordat/agreement sets out a programme of action to transform services for people with learning disabilities or autism and mental health conditions or behaviours described as challenging. It sets out specific actions to which each organisation has committed to take forward within clear timeframes.
Winterbourne View review: concordat or agreement: programme of action: easy read version
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 36p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Opened in December 2006, Winterbourne View was a private hospital owned and operated by Castlebeck Care Limited. It was designed to accommodate 24 patients in two separate wards, and was registered as a hospital providing assessment, treatment and rehabilitation for people with learning disabilities. It closed in June 2011 after the Panorama investigation. The government review found that Patients stayed at Winterbourne View for too long and were too far from home – the average length of stay was 19 months. Almost half of patients were more than 40 miles away from where their family or primary carers lived. There was an extremely high rate of ‘physical intervention’ – well over 500 reported cases of restraint in a fifteen month period. Multiple agencies failed to pick up on key warning signs – nearly 150 separate incidents – including A&E visits by patients, police attendance at the hospital, and safeguarding concerns reported to the local council – which could and should have raised the alarm. This easy read version of the concordat/agreement sets out a programme of action to transform services for people with learning disabilities or autism and mental health conditions or behaviours described as challenging. It sets out specific actions to which each organisation has committed to take forward within clear timeframes.