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Personalisation briefing: implications for community learning disability staff
- Authors:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, FOUNDATION FOR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This briefing summarises the key implications of the personalisation agenda for community-based health and social care staff supporting people with a learning disability. The briefing focuses on personal budgets, direct payments and self-directed support. Three short case examples are included to show the different ways in which people with learning disabilities have used their direct payments.
Supporting carers: the carer
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Place of publication:
- London
This film focuses on Rose Fernandes who cares for her mother, who has dementia, and her daughter, who is autistic and has learning difficulties. She uses direct payments to pay for people to help with her daughter’s care, but for her mother she relies on agency staff. She finds this method tough as the agency staff only come at certain times, leaving her to care for her mum alone throughout the night. Meanwhile, her daughter Crystal receives much more flexible care, but direct payments leave her with a lot of paperwork to do. Note: This film is no longer available.