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Person-centred support: what service users and practitioners say
- Authors:
- GLYNN Michael, et al
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 93p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
This study examines person-centred support, a key new concern in public services. It does this by bringing together for the first time the views, ideas and experience of service users, face to face practitioners and managers. Government is committed to ‘personalisation’, ‘self-directed support’ and ‘individual budgets’ in social care, aiming for increased choice and control for the people who use services. This is a move away from traditional, 'one-size-fits-all' approaches.
Person centred planning and care management with people with learning disabilities
- Editors:
- CAMBRIDGE Paul, CARNABY Steven (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 240p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This timely book provides a reflective analysis of person centred planning for people with learning disabilities, complementing policy initiatives that focus on individualised planning and service user involvement. Drawing on practical experience and research findings, the contributors explore policy and practice issues, including: advocacy and empowerment; risk management and adult protection; inter-agency and inter-professional working ethnicity and culture; and de-institutionalisation.Case studies illustrate best practice in person centred planning, and the authors offer a rich variety of ideas for increasing the participation, self-esteem and quality of life of people with learning disabilities.
A person-focused system for people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- SPOONER Brian, MILLARD Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 22.9.99, 1999, pp.50-51.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Learning disability services in Cornwall realised that the traditional care plan was failing both staff and clients. Explains how they approached developing a system to empower the client.
Involving people with learning disabilities in community care planning
- Authors:
- REDWORTH Mike, PHILLIPS Gary
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 25(1), 1997, pp.31-35.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
There is widespread support for the view that community care planning should closely involve service users. This article highlights some of the reasons why people with learning disabilities have not been accepted as full and equal members of groups serving the planning and commissioning processes. Examines the issues and difficulties around enabling people to become full members and suggests strategies, interventions and good practice guidelines for overcoming these difficulties. Finally, it argues that people with learning disabilities should be key players in the planning of services that directly affect them.