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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.
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’).
You can do it
- Authors:
- WEST GLASGOW COMMUNITY HEALTH AND CARE PARTNERSHIPS, (Producer)
- Publisher:
- Glasgow University. Centre for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- DVD
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
Produced in collaboration with the Scottish Consortium for Learning Disability and Glasgow Disability Sports Team, this DVD is designed to help people with learning disabilities get active. Also available to view online.
Love, sex and you
- Authors:
- TARLING Clare, DEAN Jimmy
- Publisher:
- Dorset People First
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 20p., ill.
- Place of publication:
- Dorchester
This is an easy to read guide to love and sex for people with learning difficulties and is presented in large text and simple language, illustrated with graphic images. It is designed to be used by care workers helping clients to go through the information if necessary. It covers relationships, sex, contraception, pregnancy, being safe regarding infection and abuse and ‘your body’ for men and women.
Investigation into the care and treatment of Ms L
- Author:
- MENTAL WELFARE COMMISSION FOR SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This report relates to the investigation into the care and treatment of Ms L. Several recommendations are made both for the services responsible for Ms L and for other services who may be able to learn from this individual case. This MWC investigation was instigated following reports of a number of incidents involving Ms L, a young woman with a severe learning disability and severe challenging behaviour, in an independent assessment and treatment resource for people with a learning disability (Unit A). The final incident, where Ms L was apparently bitten by a fellow resident overnight, resulted in a Vulnerable Adults Case Conference being called. Ms L had already been assessed as ready to move on and a place identified for her to go to. This move was therefore brought forward by about 2 weeks.
Make it clear: a guide to making information easy to read and understand
- Author:
- MENCAP. Accessibility Team
- Publisher:
- Mencap
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide provides advice and tips and making things people write easy to read. It cover: the words you use, where to put words on the page, how to use pictures and choosing the type of writing and the paper. The guide was developed with people with learning disabilities.
The Human Rights Act: changing lives
- Authors:
- MATTHEWS Lucy, et al
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Human Rights
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 27p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
This is a 20-page document about how people with disabilities can use the Human Rights Act. British Institute of Human Rights -BIHR ran a Community Outreach Programme between 2002 and 2005, with funding from the Big Lottery Fund and Comic Relief. The programme delivered human rights awareness-raising training to voluntary and community organisations, including a wide range of advocacy and local user-led groups. When the programme came to an end, it was clear that demand remained high. So as one part of our work to give human rights practical meaning for people in the UK, BIHR has continued to deliver training to a wide range of voluntary and community organisations, working at national, regional and local levels.
A hospital or a home? Findings from themed visits to NHS and private sector wards for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- MENTAL WELFARE COMMISSION FOR SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The Commission undertook a themed visit to all learning disability in-patient units during the 2007-08 visiting programme. The Commission visited 39 facilities across Scotland from 25 October to 7 November 2007. Prior to the visits, health boards were asked to provide some information about the wards in their areas. Staff were asked a series of questions about the people living in the ward on the day of the visit and about how care and treatment was provided. Commission staff met with individual patients and some relatives and carers. The Commission was particularly interested in seeing how assessment of individual need was taking place and the ways identified needs were being met. Commission staff also looked for evidence within files that would indicate how individual people and carers were being involved in decisions about current and future care. Key recommendations are outlined.
Person centred commissioning - now: a pathway approach to commissioning learning disability support
- Authors:
- FULTON Kate, WINFIELD Claire
- Publisher:
- Improvement and Development Agency
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 28p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This document explores some examples of what is working well nationally in learning disability commissioning - and how that learning could be used to develop a person-centred commissioning pathway for the future. No one area claims to have everything right, but each example shows a part of the pathway being implemented successfully, and within a person-centred approach. The report should be useful for commissioners, especially to focus them on developing action plans for the way forward.
No one knows: identifying and supporting prisoners with learning difficulties and learning disabilities: the views of prison staff in Northern Ireland
- Authors:
- LOUCKS Nancy, TALBOT Jenny
- Publisher:
- Prison Reform Trust
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 50p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report is one in a series of reports and briefing papers from No One Knows. It sets out the views of prison staff in Scotland on how prisoners with learning difficulties and learning disabilities are identified and supported. The report begins with an outline of the aims and methods for this particular study. It then briefly provides the context for prisoners with learning difficulties and learning disabilities in Scotland. The main body of the report covers the views of prison staff regarding how prisoners with learning difficulties or learning disabilities are identified and supported in their prisons. The conclusion sets out the main findings, together with preliminary recommendations for change and ways to build on existing good practice.