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Supporting self-advocacy
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 31.01.08, 2008, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
This article draws on SCIE's 'Position Paper 6: Supporting Self-Advocacy' to highlight how best to support self-advocacy services for people with learning disabilities.
LDIF provides opportunities for people with learning disabilities
With funding from the Welsh Government's Integrated Care Fund Pembrokeshire Association of Voluntary Services (PAVS) co-produced the Learning Disabilities Innovation Fund (LDIF) with support from the Dream Team and Pembrokeshire People First (PPF). The Learning Disabilities Innovation Fund (LDIF) was established in 2021, providing an opportunity for people with learning disabilities to come up with ideas for new activities and services and access funding to test them out in practice. LDIF offered an opportunity for third sector organisations and statutory bodies to apply for funding to run a truly co-produced project with and for people with learning disabilities across Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion. The key priorities for the Fund were: all projects must be co-devised, produced and delivered by people with learning disabilities; all projects need to be innovative; all projects need to specifically take forward the aims of the LD Charter. (Edited publisher abstract)
Person-centred future planning
- Authors:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publishers:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Pagination:
- 4
- Place of publication:
- London
A quick guide to help practitioners to support people growing older with learning disabilities when they are planning for the future. The guide covers person-centred planning for now, core principles for planning for the future; creating a future plan; and planning for future housing. The content is based on the NICE guideline on 'Care and support of people growing older with learning disabilities.' The quick guide is available as a pdf and as an interactive web resource. (Edited publisher abstract)
Person-centred care for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Place of publication:
- London
A webinar looking at what it takes to deliver truly person-centred care for people with learning disabilities. It was produced as part of the Named Social Worker programme and brings together learning from teams in Bradford, West Sussex and Wigan. (Edited publisher abstract)
Commissioning person-centred, cost-effective, local support for people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, EMERSON Eric, et al
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 54p.
- Place of publication:
- London
SCIE knowledge review on commissioning person-centred, cost-effective, local support for people with learning disabilities who are labelled as having complex needs and/or challenging behaviour. This review addresses concerns about the number of adults with learning disabilities receiving various forms of supported accommodation services who are living away from the communities to which they belong (ie, are ‘placed out-of-area’).
Co-producing in Rhondda Cynon Taf
The RCT Learning Disability Transformation Programme is a project within Rhondda Cynon Taf Council. It is aimed at changing and improving the way learning disability and autism services are designed and delivered within the county. The project has a Project Board with representatives from all key local stakeholders, which is led by a learning-disabled person. The Board oversees the work of the various workstreams within the project, one of which is solely focussed on ensuring co-production is embedded throughout the project. The workstreams all have representation from various council departments, third sector organisations, private sector organisations, interest groups and people with lived experience. (Edited publisher abstract)
Dignity in care: choice and control
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 13 minutes 30 seconds
- Place of publication:
- London
Everyone has the right to make choices about how they live and how their support is provided. This film shows how people with care and support needs can be supported to have choice and control. Three examples shown are owning a budgerigar; deciding between mince with dumplings or a roast chicken dinner; and going shopping. The young men with learning disabilities who draw up their preferred shopping list travel to town unsupported, buy the food, come back and cook it and then eat it. It's important to take time to understand and know the person, their previous lives and past achievements, and to support people to develop things like ‘life story books'. If you treat people as equals, you can make sure they remain in control of what happens to them. (Edited publisher abstract)
Lucy's treatment
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Place of publication:
- London
This film is a drama set in an accident and emergency department. Lucy is a woman with Down’s syndrome who is resisting treatment for a dog bite. She is with her mother when the nurse comes to assess her. The nurse does not communicate well with Lucy. She is doing a pressurised job, but this cannot excuse her behaviour towards Lucy. The nurse also makes a common mistake of believing she can’t provide treatment which goes against her patient’s wishes. It is Lucy’s mother who explains that where a person lacks capacity to make a decision about treatment, the decision must be made in the person’s best interests. Lucy is given a tetanus injection using a limited amount of restraint. NB This film is no longer available to view.
Cynon Taf County Borough Council’s My Day My Way project
Myday Myway is a new way of delivering learning disability services by Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council. An evaluation report has been done differently. People with learning disabilities in the area, who draw on day provision services, have done the research and made the evaluation report in the form of a really accessible film. (Edited publisher abstract)
Have we learned the lessons from Steven Hoskin's murder?
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Pagination:
- 12 mins
- Place of publication:
- London
This film focuses on the lessons learned from Steven Hoskin’s murder. Steven Hoskin was tortured and murdered by people who targeted him because of his learning disabilities. The serious case review into Steven’s murder found there had been serious failings by the agencies that should have been protecting him, but they had subsequently made significant improvements. Professor Michael Preston-Shoot and Hugh Constant indicate that although we have moved forward, many of the problems still persist. They say for real progress, we should be addressing key themes for development: information sharing and joint working; partnership working; legal literacy and proper training; and convening the system. Getting it right at strategic level, is absolutely key to ensuring every other level, in each partner agency, is able to contribute to good-quality multi-agency working. Key messages for practice are included. (Edited publisher abstract)