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Learning disability policy and practice: changing lives?
- Author:
- WILLIAMS Valerie
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 248p.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
This book explores working with people with learning disabilities at all life stages. With contributions from people with learning disabilities and their families, its person-centred approach illustrates how policy can be translated into practice with life-changing consequences. It outlines the role of key agencies and professionals, and emphasises the importance and relevance of partnership working. The book promotes reflection on some of key policy concepts, and to critically evaluate each one in relation to the evidence about the lives of people with learning disabilities. Contents include: introduction and overview people with learning disabilities; taking a human rights approach to health; inclusion in education partnership with families identity, relationships, sexuality and parenting; person-centred planning for life making decisions about where to live; getting good support to be in control citizenship; and inclusion in communities promises, practices and real lives references index.
Improving person centred technology for disabled people in Europe
- Author:
- BARNARD Steve
- Journal article citation:
- Llais, 101, Winter 2011, pp.3-5.
- Publisher:
- Learning Disability Wales
ImPaCT was a three year European project exploring how assistive technology, used in a person-centred way can benefit people with disabilities. During the project, Learning Disability Wales worked alongside eight other disability organisations from Europe. One of the project partners reports on its aims and achievements, now that the project is coming to a close.
Shaping the future together: a strategic planning tool for services supporting people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- COLE Angela, LLOYD Ann
- Publisher:
- Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 137p., CD ROM
- Place of publication:
- London
The Department of Health grant provided funding to look at how to aggregate the hopes, needs, and wishes of people involved in Person Centred Planning and how to use this evidence to improve services. A process and database have been developed to receive information from Person Centred Planning plans. This pack provides information and engages managers and commissioners in implementing improvements in individual and collective service delivery. It helps to build a blue print for the future shape of service by collating an evidence base. The evidence base consists of detailed information about people’s needs and aspirations that have been collected from person centred plans.
Multiagency protocols in intellectual disabilities transition partnerships: a survey of local authorities in Wales
- Author:
- KAEHNE Axel
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 7(3), September 2010, pp.182-188.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Local authorities in Wales have undertaken various efforts to improve the experience of transition for young people with intellectual disabilities as they leave school and enter the general marketplace. This paper presents the findings of a study of transition protocols in place for intellectual disability partnerships in 22 local authorities in Wales. The study consisted of a survey of existing protocols and a documentary analysis of the content of the obtained protocols. The article outlines the relevant legal and policy context of school to marketplace transition in England and Wales, then reviews the results of the survey of all 22 Welsh local authorities, and presents the findings of a documentary content analysis. The results highlight the difficulties in formulating effective protocols for transition partnerships at the local authority level. Criteria applied in the documentary analysis have been, among others, person-centred planning, involvement of young people and carers, accessibility of the protocol, and the inclusion of external agencies in transition planning. The analysis shows wide-ranging discrepancies in the quality and content of transition protocols across Wales.
Netborough: integrated service networks to meet the needs of older people and people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- MILLER Clive
- Publisher:
- Office for Public Management
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This paper examines how integrated service networks could be used to provide personalised, outcome-focused services. Using as an example the fictitious ‘Netborough’, the paper shows how local partnerships might set out to meet the challenge of improving services of older people and people with learning disabilities. It describes how networks are organised, the arrangements for care management and support brokerage, and the implications for commissioning, market management and governance. ‘Netborough’ is invented as a way of setting out and drawing together the strands of thinking and requirements in the green paper ‘Independence, Well-being and Choice’, and the white paper ‘Our health, our care, our say’, and is designed to stimulate discussion and debate amongst people working in or concerned with, service provision.
Home for good: successful community support for people with a learning disability, a mental health need and autistic people
- Author:
- CARE QUALITY COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Care Quality Commission
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Place of publication:
- London
This short report identifies common features which echo recommendations and findings in the supporting literature of what good community support should look like for people with a learning disability and/or autistic people. Common features include: services must be bespoke and truly person-centred; agencies should work in partnership; appropriate housing and environments are a prerequisite; positive behaviour support approach should be adopted when people are labelled as having ‘challenging behaviour’; and family involvement in all aspects of service planning and delivery increases the chance of a good outcome. It includes eight stories of people who have previously been placed in hospital settings, often called Assessment and Treatment Units and who are now thriving in community services across England. The stories in this report suggest that community support is: sometimes cheaper than support provided through out-of-district hospitals; far less reliant on medication and restraint to manage behaviour and delivers a demonstrably better quality of life. (Edited publisher abstract)
Health and social care celebrating wellbeing: a selection of case studies
- Authors:
- ADSS Cymru, WELSH NHS CONFEDERATION
- Publishers:
- ADSS Cymru, Welsh NHS Confederation
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 20
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This publication provides examples of positive joint working between health and social care and the third sector. The examples show how integrated working has improved the well-being of individuals since the introduction of the Social Services and Well-Being (Wales) Act 2014. The anonymised case studies cover different service areas and client groups from across Wales. They include case studies of an older person awaiting discharge from hospital; a child at risk of sexual exploitation; a disabled person using direct payments; a young adult with care and support needs following discharge from hospital; older people needing care and support to maintain independence in the community; and a child with ASD and ADHD; and older parents caring for an adult with a learning disability and care and support needs at home. Whilst primarily looking at the person’s perspective they also show how the family carer, nurse or health professional, social care worker or professional or Third Sector professional contributed to the desired outcome. In each case the main relevant themes of the 2014 Act are highlighted. The case studies show that focusing on well-being, personal outcomes and working in an integrated way can have significant benefits for individuals and their families, as well as for people working in health and social care and for the effective use of resources. (Edited publisher abstract)
Social care: guide to the 0 to 25 SEND code of practice: advice for social care practitioners and commissioners
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Education
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Education
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 19
- Place of publication:
- London
A guide for social care professionals on the support system for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities. It is designed to help practitioners and commissioners understand their statutory duties under the special educational needs and disability reforms in the Children and Families Act 2014. It draws out the social care elements from the statutory 0-25 SEND Code of Practice and helps navigate the full document. The guide sets out the principles underpinning the code and examines its key elements, including: provision of impartial information, advice and support; working together across education, health and care for joint outcomes; the local offer; preparing for adulthood from the earliest years; education, health and care needs assessments and plans; children and young people in specific circumstances; and resolving disagreements. (Edited publisher abstract)
Valuing employment now: real jobs for people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health, et al
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 102p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This sets out the cross-government strategy and action plan needed to increase the number of people with learning disabilities in employment. Contents include: growing the presumption of employability; joint working to create individual paths to employment; better work preparation at school, college and adult learning; the role of personal budgets and social care; increasing high quality job coaching; clearing up confusion about the benefits system; promoting self-employment; the need for employers to see the business case; transport to get to work; addressing barriers with where people live; employment for the most excluded adults with learning disabilities; people with learning disabilities and their families leading the way; better data and performance management.
Development of a multidisciplinary support pathway for people with learning disabilities with complex needs and/or whose behaviour challenges services
- Author:
- GAUGHAN Anna
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Care Services Management, 2(1), October 2007, pp.54-78.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper describes the process undertaken by local partner organisations across a health and social care economy, to develop and agree a multidisciplinary support pathway for the local inpatient assessment and treatment unit, for people with learning disabilities whose behaviour challenges current services. The paper attempts to highlight the place in a system-wide pathway for 'assessment and treatment services', within the philosophy of enabling each individual to live an ordinary life within their local community. Early results highlight the usefulness of the process, leading to the development of an integrated care pathway approach from a number of different perspectives. This paper highlights some of the challenges from both the commissioners and providers as they develop system-wide capacity and capabilities.