Lincolnshire SSD, in conjunction with local health authorities and voluntary organisations has increased its day care provision for people with mental handicaps, a process of change required by the closure of two hospitals and the consequent discharge of over five hundred people
Lincolnshire SSD, in conjunction with local health authorities and voluntary organisations has increased its day care provision for people with mental handicaps, a process of change required by the closure of two hospitals and the consequent discharge of over five hundred people
Subject terms:
hospitals, learning disabilities, hospital discharge, service closure, community care;
Earlier this year People First inspected the closure and resettlement programmes in the London boroughs of Sutton and Haringey for people with learning difficulties. Looks at the choices they are given as they are moved out into the community.
Earlier this year People First inspected the closure and resettlement programmes in the London boroughs of Sutton and Haringey for people with learning difficulties. Looks at the choices they are given as they are moved out into the community.
Subject terms:
learning disabilities, management, service users, social services, user views, community care;
Asks what do you do when a service user with learning difficulties and mental illness wants to return to normal life but, when she is given her wish, her life breaks down into dangerous behaviour.
Asks what do you do when a service user with learning difficulties and mental illness wants to return to normal life but, when she is given her wish, her life breaks down into dangerous behaviour.
Subject terms:
independence, learning disabilities, mental health problems, risk, social work methods, community care, decision making, deinstitutionalisation;
Describes how one social worker trod the fine line between respecting a client's wish to live independently while making sure that the move would not put him seriously at risk.
Describes how one social worker trod the fine line between respecting a client's wish to live independently while making sure that the move would not put him seriously at risk.
Subject terms:
home care, independence, learning disabilities, mental health problems, residential care, rights, risk, service users, social workers, vulnerable adults, carers, community care, decision making, empowerment;