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Supporting people with a learning disability and/or autism who display behaviour that challenges, including those with a mental health condition: service model for commissioners of health and social care services
- Authors:
- NHS ENGLAND, LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION, ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF ADULT SOCIAL SERVICES
- Publishers:
- NHS England, Local Government Association, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 41
- Place of publication:
- London
This service model brings together good practice taking place in local areas to describe what good services should look like for children, young people and adults with a learning disability and/or autism who display behaviour that challenges. It covers all aspects of commissioning: strategic, operational and individual/micro commissioning. The model is organised around nine principles from the perspective of the people using services. These are: a good and meaningful life; person-centred care and support; choice and control; support for family carers and care staff; choice of housing; good health care; access to specialist community health and social care; getting support in staying out of trouble when at risk of being in contact with the criminal justice system; and having access to high quality assessment and treatment in a hospital setting where necessary. The model gives people a clear picture of what they can expect from the services they use. It also allows those designing and commissioning services flexibility to ensure services work for local areas. The new model, which was co-produced by people using services, commissioners and health and social care system leaders, has been finalised using the feedback from early implementation by six ‘fast track’ areas. (Edited publisher abstract)
Supporting people with a learning disability and/or autism who have a mental health condition or display behaviour that challenges: draft service model for commissioners of health and social care services
- Authors:
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION, ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF ADULT SOCIAL SERVICES, NHS ENGLAND
- Publishers:
- Local Government Association, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, NHS England
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 49
- Place of publication:
- London
A draft national framework designed to improve the care of people with learning disabilities, shifting services away from hospital care and towards community-based settings. The document outlines a service model designed to ensure a degree of national consistency, while giving commissioners the flexibility to design services that best fit the needs of their local population. It sets out to provide clarity on ‘what good looks like’ for health, social care and housing services for people with a learning disability and/or autism and a mental illness or behaviour that challenges. It focuses on services and packages of care and support funded by the NHS and local government, as well as NHS/local government interfaces with other services (e.g. education), but not those services funded by other public sector agencies themselves (e.g. schools). The model comprises nine principles that should underpin the design of good services, and these are: planned, proactive and coordinated care; service users’ choice and control over their care; support in the community; service users’ choice over where they live; fulfilling and purposeful everyday life; good care from mainstream NHS services; access to specialist health and social care support in the community; access to services aimed at preventing or reducing anti-social or offending behaviour; and access to high-quality hospital treatment. (Edited publisher abstract)