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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.
Your guide to the Mental Capacity Bill
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 27.7.04, 2004, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Looks at the main areas of the Mental Capacity Bill, which covers England and Wales.
What matters is what works
- Author:
- DAVIES Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Llais, 72, Spring 2004, pp.10-12.
- Publisher:
- Learning Disability Wales
Conwy Connect helps people with learning difficulties to take part in making decisions that effect their lives, and an opportunity to participate in the planning of services. Explains what they do and how they do it.
Developing services for people with challenging behaviour: the Special Projects Team
- Authors:
- ALLAN David, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Llais, 73, Summer 2004, pp.11-14.
- Publisher:
- Learning Disability Wales
Supporting people with learning disabilities who have complex behavioural or mental health needs in non-institutional settings is one of the greatest challenges facing services today. Reports on the work of Bro Morgannwg NHS Trust which has established a Special Project Team to meet this challenge.
Abuse of people with learning disabilities: what staff say about it: what staff do about it: what staff need to learn about it: an easy to read report
- Authors:
- NORTHWAY Ruth, et al
- Publisher:
- University of Glamorgan. School of Care Sciences`
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- Pontypridd
Effective adult protection requires policies to be in place, positively communicated, and coordinated between agencies. This guide outlines rights and information for service users.
The mental health of young people looked after by local authorities in Wales: the report of a survey in 2002/2003 by the Office for National Statistics on behalf of the Welsh Assemby Government
- Authors:
- MELTZER Howard, et al
- Publisher:
- Office for National Statistics,|Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 164p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report presents the findings of a survey of the mental health of young people, aged 5-17, looked after by local authorities in Wales. The first part of the report focuses on the prevalence rates of mental disorders among young people looked after by local authorities. The second part shows a range of information including their background, personal and familial characteristics, physical health, use of services and social functioning.
Resource input,sService process and resident activity indicators in a Welsh national random aample of staffed housing services for people with intellectual disabilities
- Authors:
- FELCE David, PERRY Jonathan
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 17(1), June 2004, pp.127-132.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The aims were to: (i) explore the association between age and size of setting and staffing per resident; and (ii) report resident and setting characteristics, and indicators of service process and resident activity for a national random sample of staffed housing provision. Sixty settings were selected randomly from those accommodating six or fewer adults with intellectual disabilities in Wales. Nine settings subsequently withdrew. Information from the remaining 51 was obtained on resident ages, gender, adaptive behaviour, physical and sensory disabilities, social impairment and challenging behaviour, the number and working hours of staff, staff:resident ratios at different times of the day, working practices, resident receipt of attention and assistance from staff and resident activity. The sample of 51 residences was divided into four groups of 12, 13, 13 and 13 settings each, according to ascending average adaptive behaviour scale scores. Age of residence was associated with larger size of residence and fewer staff hours per resident. Higher staffing per resident was associated with smaller setting size. Staffing per resident differed across adaptive behaviour groups to a limited extent. Size and age of residence, working practices, resident receipt of attention and assistance from staff did not differ across groups but resident engagement in activity did. Considerable within-group variation was found. The data illustrate trends in provision over time. In addition, they give a picture of recent practice and raise questions about whether staff input, on one hand, and staff training and performance, on the other hand, are well enough matched to the different needs of residents at different points of the adaptive behaviour spectrum.