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Quality Guaranteed
- Author:
- LEESON Jayne
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, 10(7), August 2010, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
This article highlights the work of an audit teams made up of self-advocates. The Changing Our Lives audit team was formed in 2004 when a group of self-advocates decided they wanted to find out how they could check that services giving people with learning disabilities a good quality life. Over the next two years this group wrote a set of sixteen quality of life standards and developed a person-centred strategy of auditing services. Six years later, the team is made up of eight trained, paid auditors with learning disabilities. In the last two years this team has carried out one hundred and fifteen audits across a range of services including residential, nursing and supported living services, short breaks, day services, acute hospital services, mental health inpatient units, a low security forensic unit and learning disability mental health step down services. One of the auditors summed up their work saying, “We need to make sure people with learning disabilities are leading quality lives and being treated as equal in the community.”
Care standards in homes for people with intellectual disabilities
- Authors:
- BEADLE-BROWN Julie, HUTCHINSON Aislinn, MANSELL Jim
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 21(3), May 2008, pp.210-218.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
National minimum standards for residential care homes were introduced following the Care Standards Act 2000 in response to concern about the lack of consistency and poor quality services. These standards are intended to reflect outcomes for service users and to be comprehensive in scope. This study compared ratings made by care standards inspectors with research measures for 52 homes for people with intellectual disabilities serving 299 people. The research measures focused on the lived experience of residential care, including engagement in meaningful activity, choice and participation in activities of daily living. They also included measures of related care practices and organizational arrangements. The research measures were in general significantly correlated with each other. Most of the care standards ratings were also correlated with each other. However, only two of 108 correlations between care standards and research measures were significant. Possible reasons for this are discussed. This study confirms that the review of national minimum standards and modernization of inspection methods recently announced by the Department of Health and the Commission for Social Care Inspection are timely and appropriate.
Fulfilling lives: inspection of social care services for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 2p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This circular draws from the findings of the nine local inspections supplemented by additional material from SSI inspections of best value reviews of services for people with learning disabilities. The standards and criteria embodied the principles underpinning the White Paper 'Valuing people', and the findings provide an important benchmark for future delivery.
Fulfilling lives: inspection of social care services for people with learning disabilities; a summary
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 11p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report summarises the findings of the nine local inspections supplemented by additional material from SSI inspections of best value reviews of services for people with learning disabilities. The standards and criteria embodied the principles underpinning the White Paper 'Valuing people', and the findings provide an important benchmark for future delivery.
Fulfilling lives: inspection of social care services for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- COPE Charles
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 60p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report draws from the findings of the nine local inspections supplemented by additional material from SSI inspections of best value reviews of services for people with learning disabilities. The standards and criteria embodied the principles underpinning the White Paper 'Valuing people', and the findings provide an important benchmark for future delivery.
The quality of residential and day services for adults with intellectual disabilities in eight local authorities in England: objective data gained in support of a social inspectorate inspection
- Authors:
- FELCE David, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 12(4), 1999, pp.273-293.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Objective data on the quality of 15 residential homes and 17 day centres were collected as part of a Social Services Inspectorate inspection of services for adults with learning disabilities in eight local authorities in England. A sample of 56 residents was drawn from the former and information collected on their behavioural characteristics, social and community integration, autonomy, receipt of attention and assistance from staff, and participation in activity.