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Making the leap
- Author:
- GREENWOOD Gail
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, 13(1), January/February 2013, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Making the transition from children’s to adult’s services and having to manage your own a personal budget for the first time can be a daunting prospect. Dimensions support advisors provide a single point of contact for people looking for support, helping families navigate through what can seem to be ‘the social care maze’. There are 10 support advisors across the country to provide advice to families with personal budgets looking for support. This article provides a case study of a young person and her family who have been supported by a Dimensions support advisor. It describes how person-centred thinking tools were used to plan a tailor-made support package. The young person now has 3 support workers, who share the same interests as she does. As a result she has a happy busy social life. Her support plan includes aims for her to be domestically independent and this will help her through the next stages of her life. Dimensions will continue to work with her, ensuring the support reflects her needs and adapts as she develops.
Speaking up, speaking out: pathways to self advocacy; handbook
- Authors:
- LARCHER Janet, et al
- Publisher:
- Communication Matters
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 61p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Aims to help people speak up and speak out for themselves, and provides guidance on how this can be facilitated. The handbook providing detailed information about advocacy and communicating with a person with severe communication difficulties. Each section of the handbook is accompanied by case studies which illustrate key issues and questions that are raised in the main text.
Personalising the housing offer: new approaches to housing with support for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- WESTWOOD Sanna
- Publisher:
- Housing Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 7
- Place of publication:
- London
This case study examines the introduction of a housing brokerage service in Essex and identifies the key phases and activities that took place. The service has been designed to ensure more people are able to access suitable housing options that enable them to live as independently as possible. The study highlights three aspects critical to the success of the process, including good communication, effective co-ordination with social care teams and gradual capacity building. The study, drawing on the learning from this project, sets out a framework for setting up a housing brokerage service and identifies the key phases: the analysis stage, to identify local needs and gaps in the services; the planning stage, to develop a business plan, demonstrating outcomes and financial and legal implication of setting up a brokerage service; the delivering stage; and the reviewing stage to ensure outcomes have been achieved. (Edited publisher abstract)
Housing-based support: a successful alternative to secure accommodation for people who have learning disabilities and have offended
- Authors:
- OLSEN Angela, HEATON Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities and Offending Behaviour, 2(1), January 2011, pp.16-26.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Services for offenders who have learning disabilities are generally provided in secure and medium secure units. These services are often provided in segregated and congregated settings using therapeutic interventions. This paper presents a case study of a housing-based service provided within the community, based on developing valued social roles for vulnerable people. The Housing Independence Support Team (HIST) was established in January 2003 in order to develop a service for adults with mild or borderline learning disabilities who have offended or are at risk of offending. The aspirations of the team are to support individuals to gain and maintain accommodation and develop the skills to manage this effectively, with the hope that people’s offending behaviour will also reduce. The service is based on the principle of normalisation, the theory of social role valorisation (SRV), and O'Brien's Framework for Accomplishment. The paper provides a critical introduction to SRV and O'Brien's Framework, and discusses how their principles have influenced the work of the HIST. It discusses some of the structures and attitudes prevalent in society by which people with learning disabilities are oppressed. The paper includes examples of practice and shows differences in the patterns of referral and destination routes for males and females. It concludes with some implications for practice.
Speaking up, speaking out: pathways to self-advocacy; practical guide
- Authors:
- LARCHER Janet, et al
- Publisher:
- Communication Matters
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 25p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Aims to help people speak up and speak out for themselves, and provides guidance on how this can be facilitated. The guide contains key points in easily reproduced form for use as overheads and handouts in group training sessions. The Practical Guide has been developed for use by key communication partners to help build realistic advocacy plans for individuals whom they are supporting.
Supporting older people with learning disabilities: a toolkit for health and social care commissioners
- Authors:
- TURNER Sue, BERNARD Caroline
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 40
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Older people with a learning disability often experience health inequalities as a result of factors sitting outside of health services eg poverty, poor housing, social exclusion, lifestyle factors and barriers to accessing health services. This toolkit brings together information from policy and practice to support commissioners in developing services for older people with learning disabilities and their family carers. The seven sections of the toolkit cover: knowing about the local population; planning for the local population; information and advice; accommodation and support; support to remain active and maintain relationships; support with health; and support at the end of life. Each section includes details of the rationale, good practice examples, and self-assessment questions to measure progress. Although the policy and legislation referred to relate to England only, many of the the broad issues discussed are relevant to the UK as a whole. (Original abstract)