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Winterbourne View: time for change. Transforming the commissioning of services for people with learning disabilities and/or autism
- Authors:
- BUBB Stephen, TRANSFORMING CARE AND COMMISSIONING STEERING GROUP
- Publisher:
- NHS England
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 48
This report sets out recommendations for a national commissioning framework under which local commissioners would secure community-based support for people with learning disabilities and/or autism. The Concordat published after the Winterbourne View scandal set out the necessary key steps very clearly (starting with pooled budgets and joint local commissioning plans), and has been followed by a range of further analysis and guidance. This report aims to ensure that vision is implemented, by removing the barriers that make it hard for stakeholders across the system to make change happen and by empowering and supporting the agents of change, including people with learning disabilities and/or autism themselves and their families. Key recommendations include: the closure of inappropriate in-patient care institutions; a Charter of Rights for people with learning disabilities and/or autism and their families; to give people with learning disabilities and their families a ‘right to challenge’ decisions and the right to request a personal budget; a requirement for local decision-makers to follow a mandatory framework that sets out who is responsible, for which services and how they will be held to account, including improved data collection and publication; improved training and education for NHS, local government and provider staff; a social investment fund to build capacity in community-based services, to enable them to provide alternative support; and empowering people with learning disabilities by giving them the rights they deserve in determining their care. (Edited publisher abstract)