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Sharing social care's best kept secret: Growing Shared Lives: a practical guide
- Author:
- SHARED LIVES PLUS
- Publisher:
- Shared Lives Plus
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 9
- Place of publication:
- Liverpool
A toolkit to help commissioners, directors, and heads of service who want to grow Shared Lives and offer more personalised, strengths-based adult social care. Shared Lives is a community-based service that offers accommodation and support to adults with learning disabilities and other social care needs. It can offer long-term accommodation, where the person with support needs lives with the carer in the carer's home as part of their family and community life. The evidence suggests that Shared Lives is cost-effective, saving between £8k and 30k per annum, depending on the person's support needs and local alternative services. The briefing is centred on a desk-based review of recent evaluations and evidence, along with interviews and workshops with stakeholders from across adult social care. Lessons from local authorities with experience of the scheme cover: committed leadership; develop strong links with transitions teams; align housing strategy with Shared Lives growth; regional collaboration; effective commissioning; making the case for investment; embedding Shared Lives into business-as-usual; ensuring carers' fees are reviewed; ensuring there are sufficient carers' breaks provision; developing champions; targeted communications and recruitment. (Edited publisher abstract)
Joint position statement on carers with learning disabilities from the Princess Royal Trust for Carers, Crossroads Care, Mencap, the National Family Carer Network, Who Cares for Us? and Respond
- Authors:
- PRINCESS ROYAL TRUST FOR CARERS, CROSSROADS CARE
- Publisher:
- Princess Royal Trust for Carers
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Woodford Green
This easy read joint position statement was created to help organisations who help carers with learning disabilities to work better together and to help other people to understand the lives of carers with learning disabilities. Using brief bullet points the statement describes what a carer with a learning disability is; explains why it is difficult to know how many carers with learning disabilities there are; what they want; how they could be better supported; and the organisations that currently support them.
Learning with families: a training resource
- Author:
- FOUNDATION FOR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 108p., videocassette
- Place of publication:
- London
The Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities has developed a training resource with a difference - family carers, who are also encouraged to deliver the training alongside professionals, developed the contents to train staff working in learning disability services.
Being a witness: helping people with learning disabilities who go to court: a guide for carers
- Author:
- ENABLE Scotland
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 32p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This booklet is aimed at carers and covers how to help adults with learning disabilities who have been asked to be a witness in a criminal court case or at a children’s hearing court case. An adult witness is someone aged 16 or over. It contains information that informal carers, care workers and advocacy or other staff may find useful before, during and after the court case. The court process and the people present are explained, and what a carer can do in advance, on the day and afterwards is outlined.
No box to tick: a booklet for carers of people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- SWINTON John
- Publisher:
- Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Through two research projects, people with learning disabilities indicated the importance of spirituality in their lives. Services rarely see it as part of their role to support people in meeting their spiritual and/or religious needs. This booklet asserts that this could be seen as a denial of the human rights of people with learning disabilities.
The ageing process: guidelines for recognition in people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- TWEEDY Peter, PEEL Shelagh, FENTON Roger
- Publisher:
- North West Training and Development Team
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 13p.
- Place of publication:
- Clitheroe
Practical guidelines for carers of people with learning difficulties on the different aspects of ageing.
Learning disabilities: report of seminars held during 1993
- Author:
- SOUTH EAST INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH
- Publisher:
- South East Institute of Public Health
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 63p.
- Place of publication:
- Tunbridge Wells
Report from seminars covering: services for adults with learning difficulties, who does what and why in service teams; and opportunities for people with learning difficulties and their carers for a full life.
Talking together: views of people with learning disabilities and their carers on future services
- Author:
- BRIDGES
- Publisher:
- Bridges
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 48p.
- Place of publication:
- Ross-on-Wye
Report from a series of workshops. Outlines the background to the workshops and their content.
The review of the all Wales strategy: a view from the carers; a report on a postal survey of 650 parents and other family carers
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Welsh Office
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Welsh Office
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 73p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
What we need: a survey of the needs of families caring for a member with a mental handicap in Kidderminster Health District
- Authors:
- KIDDERMINSTER AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL, KIDDERMINSTER AND DISTRICT HEALTH AUTHORITY
- Publisher:
- Kidderminster and District Community Health Council/Kidderminster and District H
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 71p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Kidderminster
Results of a survey of the needs of 136 families.