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Joint strategic needs assessments: how well do they address the needs of people with learning disabilities?
- Authors:
- BAINES Susannah, et al
- Publisher:
- Improving Health and Lives: Learning Disabilities Observatory
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 13
- Place of publication:
- London
The Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 requires Primary Care Trusts and local authorities to produce a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) of the health and wellbeing of their local community. This review of currently available JSNAs suggests that, in many areas of England, JSNAs are failing to take due account of the health needs of people with learning disabilities, especially children with learning disabilities. While four out of five JSNAs do make some mention of people with learning disabilities, only 46% contain a specific section of the JSNA that is devoted to adults with learning disabilities, 9% to children with learning disabilities, and 8% to older adults with learning disabilities. Analysis of the type of information on learning disabilities contained in JSNAs suggests that they are unlikely to be of value in planning future services. (Edited publisher abstract)
Working together: developing and providing services for people with learning disabilities and mental health problems
- Author:
- UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. King's College. Centre for Mental Health Services Development
- Publisher:
- Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 110p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Working Together Resource Pack provides materials to encourage and support joint working between mental health and learning disability services. The aim is to improve access to effective and appropriate support for people with learning disabilities and additional mental health problems. The pack will be useful to a broad range of staff in learning disability and mental health services, PCTs and Local Authorities, Local Implementation Teams and Valuing People Partnership Boards. It should be of interest to family carers, staff and people who use both mental health and learning disability services, to understand services systems, structures and processes.
Widening the safety net
- Author:
- DINSDALE Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 8.10.03, 2003, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Reports on an innovative project in north Nottinghamshire, where, in 2001 they appointed the UK's first consultant nurse for vulnerable children. The role combines the responsibility for health needs of children with a lead role in ensuring that their social care needs are being met.