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Learning disabilities: good practice project
- Authors:
- HOUGH Jo, MARTIN Kerry
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 57
- Place of publication:
- London
This report gives people who commission, design and deliver services a better understanding of how to improve the lives of people with learning disabilities. It is partly based on these good practice indicators: co-production; a capabilities approach to disability; community capacity building; a move towards more integrated services; and a commitment to personalisation. It presents six examples of good practice: Public Health Norfolk & Equal Lives (formerly Norfolk Coalition of Disabled People) and its provision of easy-to-access information on local health services; the Quality Checking project in Gloucestershire; London Borough of Hackney and Advance Support and supported living for people with complex needs; MacIntyre Care in Oxfordshire, representative of transition support for young people with complex needs; the Open University’s Social History of Learning Disability Group on sharing life stories; and Merseycare NHS Rebuild Service, which offers support for people with Down’s Syndrome and early onset dementia. It gives briefer details for other shortlisted projects. The report also includes an EasyRead summary. The project was completed under an action from ‘Transforming Care: A national response to Winterbourne View Hospital’. (Original abstract)
Commissioning services for people with learning disabilities in Scotland: linking evidence and practice
- Author:
- CAMPBELL Martin
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 37(1), March 2009, pp.28-33.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This paper describes the development of some practical guidance for people involved in commissioning services for individuals with learning disabilities. A national conference was organised in November 2005 to look at the question of 'What works in learning disability services?', i.e. what approaches have proven effectiveness in the planning, commissioning and provision of services for people with learning disabilities. This was followed by four workshops around Scotland to seek practitioners' views on commissioning, at a strategic and at an individual level. From this, written and online guidelines were devised, based on seven steps with a number of associated key questions. These guidelines aim to inform commissioners about available research and good practice, and provide a method of recording the basis on which commissioners make their decisions for models of care and their experiences in a way that could be shared with others.
Reasonably adjusted? Mental health services and support for people with autism and people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- BATES Peter, TURNER Sue, NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TEAM FOR INCLUSION
- Publisher:
- National Development Team for Inclusion
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 65
- Place of publication:
- Bath
The law requires mental health services to make reasonable adjustments so that they stop discriminating against people with autism or learning disabilities. ‘Reasonably adjusted?’ describes the reasonable adjustments mental health services have put in place for people with learning disabilities and people with autism. It is organised in three sections, starting with a summary of the context. The second section follows a care pathway from first contact with primary care services through referral to specialist help and on to discharge, reporting on the adjustments made by individuals and organisations that are trying to provide high quality services to people and their families The third section: ‘Effective services in a flourishing community’ begins with a broad view of active citizenship and follows an organisational pathway. ‘Reasonably adjusted?’ offers practical examples and includes an easy ready summary. Its content forms the basis of a subsequent NDTi publication, ‘The green light toolkit’ (2013). (Edited publisher abstract)
Multisensory rooms: essential characteristics and barriers to effective practice
- Author:
- GRACE Joanna
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 25(2), 2020, pp.67-75.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This paper aims to identify the characteristics practitioners consider essential to effective multisensory rooms and the barriers they experience when trying to realise the potential of such rooms. Design/methodology/approach: The paper presents semi-structured interviews with 27 multisensory room practitioners from a range of backgrounds followed by analysis to identify key characteristics and barriers. Findings: Eleven positive room characteristics were identified. The three deemed most significant were that the rooms are dark, activity associated and uninterrupted spaces. Two negative room characteristics were identified: inaccessible design and broken equipment. Ten barriers to effective multisensory room practice were identified and grouped according to themes of logistics, suboptimal usage and practitioner capabilities.Research limitations/implications: The research focuses on a small self-selecting sample, coded by one person acting independently of any institution. This is an under researched area which would benefit from further more rigorous investigation. Practical implications: This research enables practitioners to remove barriers to effective multisensory room practice and to focus on the characteristics most significant in generating benefits for room users. Understanding of the essential characteristics and potential barriers to effective practice will allow practitioners to better exploit limited resources of time, money and staffing.Originality/value: Past research into multisensory rooms has focused on specific user groups or specific multisensory environments. This research examined multisensory room practice across both a range of environments and a range of users, giving an original overview of current multisensory room usage in the UK. (Publisher abstract)
The Health Equalities Framework: embedding good practice: report from two workshops to support implementation
- Author:
- NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TEAM FOR INCLUSION
- Publisher:
- National Development Team for Inclusion
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 11
- Place of publication:
- Bath
Summarises the findings from two workshops for organisations and family carers who are using the Health Equalities Framework (HEF). The report examines how the HEF is being implemented, sets out the lessons learnt, and outlines current initiatives and potential developments. (Edited publisher abstract)
Learning disabilities and BME communities: principles for best practice
- Authors:
- TONKISS Katherine, STAITE Catherine
- Publisher:
- University of Birmingham. Institute of Local Government Studies
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 11p.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Individuals from BME communities are often underrepresented in the uptake of learning disability services. The purpose of this briefing is to present some ideas for best practice in the effective delivery of learning disability services to users from BME communities. The briefing draws on the findings of qualitative research undertaken for a local authority seeking to improve the historically low uptake of these services by individuals from BME communities. The research examined the barriers to service use by individuals from BME communities and explored the scope for more collaborative and integrated approaches to commissioning for the delivery of more suitable learning disability services for BME and emerging communities. This briefing starts by briefly providing some broad findings from this research. It then uses the findings from the research to develop an approach to increasing the use of learning disability services by BME communities, and also increasing the involvement of those service users in the design and commissioning of services. It recognises that the best way to reach BME groups is through face to face contact and utilising existing contacts and networks to build up stronger relationships.
Making reasonable adjusments to dementia services for people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- KENNEY Amanda, IMPROVING HEALTH AND LIVES: LEARNING DISABILITIES OBSERVATORY
- Publisher:
- Improving Health and Lives: Learning Disabilities Observatory
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 25
- Place of publication:
- London
'Making reasonable adjusments to dementia services for people with learning disabilities' is part of a series of reports produced by IHaL which focus on reasonable adjustments to mainstream services, so that they meet the needs of people with learning disabilities. The report is a provides sources of evidence, research, policy and guidance, resources, and case studies and good practice examples. It can be used by people with learning disabilities (there is an easy read summary at the start of the report), carers, commissioners, providers, public health leads, and advocacy services, to improve dementia services for people with learning disabilities. (Edited publisher abstract)
Commissioning services and support for people with learning disabilities and complex needs: DVD of joint review
- Authors:
- COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION, HEALTHCARE COMMISSION, MENTAL HEALTH ACT COMMISSION (Producers)
- Publisher:
- Commission for Social Care Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- DVD
- Place of publication:
- London
In 2008, the Commission for Social Inspection, the Health Care Commission and the Mental Health Act Commission worked together in nine areas of England to review how well people with learning disabilities and complex needs were being supported by local services throughout commissioning. The review teams were made up of people with learning disabilities, family carers, someone with experience of commissioning services, and a member of staff from each of the Commissions. This DVD presents the main findings from the commissioning review and highlights examples of positive practice.
Guidance: commissioning accommodation and support for a good life for people with a learning disability
- Author:
- WELSH LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
- Publisher:
- Welsh Local Government Association
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Pagination:
- 88
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This guidance, commissioned by the National Commissioning Board, provides advice on commissioning accommodation and support services for people with a learning disability that support independent living promote well-being. It aims to redefine the accommodation and support model to a more person-centred, flexible set of principles which considers a wide range of places to live and deliver the support person want and need. It builds upon the overarching guidance on ‘Commissioning Services for People with Learning Disabilities’ published in November 2017 and will contribute to Welsh Government’s ‘Learning Disability Improving Lives Programme’. The guidance is structured around 12 questions across five themes which cover: person centred pathway; models of accommodation and support; what makes good quality support; developing innovative and progressive procurement processes; effective strategic commissioning, including commissioning services that improve well-being and that are cost effective. (Edited publisher abstract)
Commissioning services for people with a learning disability: good practice guidance
- Authors:
- NATIONAL COMMISSIONING BOARD, OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY. Institute of Public Care
- Publisher:
- Oxford Brookes University. Institute of Public Care
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 46
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Good practice guidance developed to help Regional Partnership Boards in Wales to develop their own approaches to the integrated commissioning of services for people with a learning disability. The guidance will help commissioners to follow the principles in the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014, in terms of helping individuals to lead an ordinary life with dignity, and co-producing appropriate solutions to help individuals to achieve the outcomes important to them. The guidance looks at the role of the strategic commissioner, how they can lead cultural change and how to commission ‘good lives’ through co-production approaches. It also explains how taking a whole systems, lifespan approach to positive behaviour support can reduce placement breakdown and prevent hospital admission. The guidance has been developed by the National Commissioning Board in partnership with the Institute for Public Care. (Edited publisher abstract)