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Too far to go?: people with learning disabilities placed out-of-area
- Authors:
- BEADLE-BROWN Julie, et al
- Publisher:
- Tizard Centre
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 72p.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
Researchers have discovered that a substantial number of people with learning disabilities are placed in residential homes in Kent from other authorities. The study, the first to evaluate this kind of data, set out to discover why this is, and the effect of these placements on the individuals and their families.
Care standards in homes for people with intellectual disabilities
- Authors:
- BEADLE-BROWN Julie, HUTCHINSON Aislinn, MANSELL Jim
- Publisher:
- Tizard Centre
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 13p.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
National minimum standards for residential care homes were introduced following the Care Standards Act 2000 in response to concern about lack of consistency and poor quality services. These standards are intended to reflect outcomes for service users and to be comprehensive in scope. This study compared ratings made by care standards inspectors with research measures for 52 homes for people with intellectual disabilities serving 299 people. The research measures focused on the lived experience of residential care, including engagement in meaningful activity, choice and participation in activities of daily living. They also included measures of related care practices and organisational arrangements. The research measures were in general significantly correlated with each other. Most of the care standards ratings were also correlated with each other.