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Out patients are our watchdogs
- Author:
- SOCKALINGUM Alain
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, 10(7), August 2010, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
This article examines personalisation within a secure setting. Personalisation is often bypassed in secure settings, yet, in the right environment, people in these settings can also have control and choice. The article focuses on Beech House, a low-secure residential hospital in Suffolk, with 37 patients who are under 24/7 supervision. It describes how a secure service that promotes independence, choice, and control – which lies at the heart of the personalisation agenda – can bear fruit for people with learning disabilities. Personalisation, in the context of secure settings, means offering some control to patients when they need restraining as a last resort. The Care Quality Commission has recommended the use of advance statements, where patients write, in their own words, how they should prefer to be handled if restraint is ever necessary. The article also outlines improvements in access to primary health care, and details the promotion of social inclusion within secure settings – an example given is a healthy living programme where patients, with an escort, where allowed to jog on outside pavements.
A move centre stage
- Author:
- JACKSON Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, 10(1), January 2010, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Enfield Council has earned Beacon status by putting the people they support at the centre of the decision-making process. Their strategy involves 4 cornerstones: consistency, enthusiasm, commitment, and evolution. Consistency has been ensured by funding a person-centred planning manager and, recently, an additional co-ordinator position. Training has been provided for all groups involved in person-centred planning including staff, the independent sector, and people with learning disabilities, and has resulted in a shared approach that has generated real enthusiasm. All staff are committed to supporting people to achieve the goals identified in their plans, particularly through person-centred reviews. Person-centred reviews have resulted in appropriate support that uses resources effectively and makes sense to the individuals concerned. Finally, evolution has meant a willingness to try new things and make necessary changes. The article concludes that putting the individual in the centre of the decision-making process has proved to make better use of time and resources and helped eliminate the mistakes made in the past, and is transforming the lives of people who use the services.
A life better spent?: a DVD and booklet about personal budgets and making choices about your life
- Authors:
- VALUES INTO ACTION, (Producer), BEWLEY Catherine, (Author)
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- (19 mins.), DVD, booklet
- Place of publication:
- London
This DVD and booklet aims to help people with learning difficulties learn more about individual budgets. It explains about the changes with who has power over services and the money that pays for them, and how these changes should provide people with the power to make their own choices and live their lives in their own way. It describes how direct payment can be used to buy support directly. It also explains that people who don’t want to deal with their own money directly are still able to tell social services how they want their support money spent. The DVD describes the story of a young woman stuck in a dead-end job and how she manages to get choice and control in her life.
Personalisation briefing: implications for community learning disability staff
- Authors:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, FOUNDATION FOR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This briefing summarises the key implications of the personalisation agenda for community-based health and social care staff supporting people with a learning disability. The briefing focuses on personal budgets, direct payments and self-directed support. Three short case examples are included to show the different ways in which people with learning disabilities have used their direct payments.
Personalisation and adults with learning disabilities: an annotated guide to the literature
- Author:
- NORTHFIELD John
- Publisher:
- NHS Evidence
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Place of publication:
- London
This literature review identifies and briefly summarises recent literature relevant to supporting adults with learning disabilities in the context of the personalisation agenda in England. It is not a comprehensive or systematic review of the literature, but provides a broad based starting point. It provides links to tools and documents, and helps to explain key concepts and terms.
Spending time in Normansfield: changes in the day to day life of Patricia Collen
- Authors:
- CADBURY Heather, WHITMORE Michelle
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 38(2), June 2010, pp.120-126.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The article explores the changes in care over the years for people with a learning disability by focusing on the life story of one individual. Patricia Collen lived at Normansfield from 1926 to 1997. The article provides a historical overview of Normansfield, and examines the changing patterns of care including the sense of home in the institution, clothing, leisure and learning. The article embeds this within the wider picture of institutional care in England and illustrates the decline in care that took place over the years. Patricia’s story shows that it is possible for people with a learning disability to live a full and active life, either in the community or within an institution. Her life has changed considerably in recent years, and she is now supported by staff who respect her and provide her with individualised care. Patricia now makes many more decisions for herself and fills her time with things she likes to do. The provision of sufficient money has been another important factor which affected Patricia’s life over the years.
Supporting carers: the carer
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Place of publication:
- London
This film focuses on Rose Fernandes who cares for her mother, who has dementia, and her daughter, who is autistic and has learning difficulties. She uses direct payments to pay for people to help with her daughter’s care, but for her mother she relies on agency staff. She finds this method tough as the agency staff only come at certain times, leaving her to care for her mum alone throughout the night. Meanwhile, her daughter Crystal receives much more flexible care, but direct payments leave her with a lot of paperwork to do. Note: This film is no longer available.
Personalisation and its implications for work and employment in the voluntary sector
- Authors:
- CUNNINGHAM Ian, NICKSON Dennis
- Publisher:
- Voluntary Sector Social Services Workforce Unit
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 23p.
- Place of publication:
- Stirling
This report assesses the impact of personalisation on social care, particularly focussing on implications for the workforce. The report aimed to identify the functions, skills and behaviours required of workers in order to deliver personalised services, and evaluate the extent to which the voluntary sector workforce currently exhibits them. The report also aimed to identify what learning is required when applying personalised services. The research draws upon interviews with four key national policymakers involved in the personalisation agenda and interviews at three voluntary sector organisations with managers, employees and service users. Each organisation was chosen on the basis of their different approaches to adopting personalisation. The report presents a description of the overall approaches to personalisation at the three organisations. It then presents the findings of the research, firstly considering the views of key policymakers before examining how the three voluntary organisations are addressing emergent HR issues. Employment implications are discussed with regard to: recruitment and selection; changes to working hours; employee skills and training; performance management; job insecurity; health and safety; pay and conditions; and the perspective of service users. The implications of the findings are discussed and recommendations provided for policymakers and organisational leaders.
Using personalised technology to enable transition - how personalised technology, including assistive technology and telecare, has enabled the transition from registered care to supported living for individuals with learning disabilities
- Author:
- Hft
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Assistive Technologies, 4(4), December 2010, pp.46-50.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Hft is a national charity for people with learning disabilities and their families. Its aim is to seek out innovative solutions that offer individual support enabling people to lead fulfilling lives. Hft is a pioneer in the development of personalised technology for use by people with learning disabilities. This article illustrates the central role that personalised assistive technology has played in enabling six individuals living in traditional registered care to live more independently in supported living situations in their community in Cornwall. Each case study describes the background to individual situation, the key technology selected, the reasoning behind this, and the benefits gained. Staff worked with each individual to encourage their growing independence, gradually reducing the intensity of support once confidence and safety was established.
Making it personal: a provider's journey from tradition to transformation
- Authors:
- SCOWN Steve, SANDERSON Helen
- Publisher:
- Dimensions
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 102p.
- Place of publication:
- Theale
Since 2008, Dimensions (who support people with learning disabilities and autism across England and Wales to live the lives they want) has been grappling with the challenge of delivering personalised services. Leaving aside the debate about the future of residential care, they decided to transform their organisation to one that responds flexibly to individuals with a budget who will want bespoke support. Dimensions felt that if they did not consider and respond to the shift in power from the professionals to the customer, they would not survive. This booklet describes how Dimensions changed what they offer people and their families by breaking down every aspect of their ’bundled’ support packages. It talks about developing a more sophisticated cost model for one-off, fixed term and on-going personalised support components, and also explains how Dimensions is developing a web portal that means everyone - the people they employ, the people they support and their families - will all have the same means of accessing all information.