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Money, rights and risks: a scoping review of financial issues for people with learning disabilities in the UK
- Authors:
- WILLIAMS Val, et al
- Publisher:
- Friends Provident Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 53p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Dorking
This report reviews financial issues for people with learning disabilities and their families, across the UK. It draws on a wide range of recent and ongoing research in the field of learning disability, as well as three focus groups for 25 people with learning disabilities in different areas of the country and ten individual interviews. There is also some reflection about the issues for financial providers, based on a small sample of interviews, and the report ends with recommendations for practice and further research. Key findings show that many people with learning disabilities had little control of their own resources. They were mostly given ‘pocket money’, which they spent on small non-essential items. People had few opportunities to improve their financial knowledge. Personal incomes were low, and some had taken on credit that they did not understand, and could not afford. The report concludes that those with learning disabilities need planned financial support packages when they move into independent living. They also need safeguards, to ensure minimal financial risk. Family carers and support staff need advice, information and training in offering financial support
Where do you want to go next?: critical factors in care planning for people with learning disabilities, and their financial implications
- Authors:
- WILLIAMS Val, BATTLEDAY Suzanne
- Publisher:
- Norah Fry Research Centre
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 47p., bibliog..
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This study aimed to explore the factors which are associated with different outcomes of care planning for people with learning disabilities. In particular, it explored the differences for those going into residential care, and those who had a supported living placement, or some other community-based option. It drew upon record searches and care manager interviews for 28 cases from 4 social services departments in the South West of England, and also semi-structured interviews with 12 carers or service users. Ten of the cases had residential outcomes, and 18 had supported living or other outcomes. Amongst the findings were that people who received residential care placements were more likely to have a larger number of recorded support needs, to be amongst the oldest group of service users, not be moving from the family home, not have a person-centred plan taken into account, and to have had previous high levels of supplied support. A number of messages for good practice in care management are given, including the key recommendation to improve the use of tools for working out individual budgets.