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Making us count: identifying and improving mental health support for young people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- FOUNDATION FOR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
- Publisher:
- Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 141p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report has been written with care managers, senior service managers, commissioners of services and interested practitioners in mind. It aims to explore the issues of mental health needs as understood by young people themselves and their family carers. To present their views about the gaps in services, what they find helpful and what kinds of support they would like to be available highlight some new and exciting approaches to addressing the mental health needs of young people with learning disabilities and to recommend ways in which services and support can be improved for both young people with learning disabilities and their family carers.
Better commissioning for better lives: top tips for commissioners
- Authors:
- NHS CONFEDERATION, FOUNDATION FOR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
- Publisher:
- NHS Confederation
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 3
- Place of publication:
- London
These top tips for commissioners are based on roundtable discussions between people with learning disabilities and commissioners in March 2022. They are part of a call to action to move beyond the years of policies and good intentions to now focus on making equality and inclusion for people with learning disabilities a reality. Top tips include: challenge discrimination - understand the barriers and impacts; challenge and support the wider system to make reasonable adjustments; find out what is important to people (but assume basic rights); co-production - nothing about us without us; be brave - stop being so risk averse; empower people with information and with time; develop a shared vision and expectations; more action - get better at making change happen. (Edited publisher abstract)