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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.”
Multi-agency inspection: thematic inspection of services for people with a learning disability in Angus, Dumfries and Galloway, East and West Lothian
- Author:
- SOCIAL WORK INSPECTION AGENCY
- Publisher:
- Social Work Inspection Agency
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 156p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The Scottish Government commissioned this inspection, which was undertaken in 2009. The 3 themes for the inspection were transition, lifelong learning, and employment. It focused on what 4 councils and health partnerships in Angus, Dumfries and Galloway, East and West Lothian were doing to improve the experiences of people with a learning disability about these issues. The report includes an easy read summary of the findings, describes the inspection methodology and activities, and reports on the findings for each of the 4 partnerships studied and on shared issues for all areas. It includes tables with a summary showing evaluation levels for each partnership for: outcomes for people who used services and their carers, experience of people who used services and their carers, impact on stakeholders, access to services, strategic planning, vision, values and aims, and capacity for improvement. It makes recommendations for improvements for individual councils, individual partnerships or more than one council or partnership. The report notes that each partnership will be asked to prepare an action plan setting out how they will implement the recommendations of the report.