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Getting better all the time?: issues and strategies for ensuring quality in community services for people with mental handicap; papers and reports from a workshop May 7th - 9th 1986
- Editor:
- WARD Linda
- Publisher:
- Kings Fund Centre
- Publication year:
- 1986
- Pagination:
- 88p., bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Defines quality and looks at practical approaches to pursuing quality in both residential and community support services. Includes section on planning for quality when developing services.
Charter for people with learning difficulties: our promise to people who use our services
- Author:
- HARRISON Sophie
- Publisher:
- Southwark Consortium
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 49p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Charter telling people with learning difficulties, their families, friends and others involved, what services they can expect from Southwark Consortium, an organisation which helps users to lead their own lives in the community.
Quality and costs of residential support for people with learning difficulties: comparative analysis of quality and costs in village communities, residential campuses and dispersed housing schemes: summary and implications
- Authors:
- EMERSON Eric, et al
- Publisher:
- University of Lancaster. Institute for Health Research
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- Lancaster
This report provides a brief summary of the results of a large-scale research project commissioned by the Department of Health. The aims of the project were to identify or explore the nature, quality and costs of residential or village communities and community-based dispersed housing schemes for people with learning disabilities.
Quality and costs of community-based residential support for people with learning difficulties and challenging behaviour
- Authors:
- ROBERTSON Janet, et al
- Publisher:
- University of Lancaster. Institute for Health Research
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- Lancaster
The aim was to compare the quality and costs of two approaches to providing community-based residential supports to people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour: non-congregate settings where the minority of residents have challenging behaviour; and congregate settings where the majority of residents have challenging behaviour. Congregate care was associated with higher costs, higher staffing ratios, and better quality internal working practices. However, these inputs did not translate to better outcomes for residents. Non-congregate care was associated with greater access to day activities, less reliance of medication and physical restraint to control challenging behaviour, and less risk. Levels of staff contact and participant engagement were low across both models of care.
Quality and costs of residential supports for people with learning disabilities: a comparative analysis of quality and costs in village communties, residential campuses and dispersed housing schemes
- Author:
- UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER. Institute for Health Research
- Publisher:
- University of Lancaster. Institute for Health Research
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 128p.
- Place of publication:
- Lancaster
This report provides the results of a large-scale research project commissioned by the Department of Health. The aims of the project were to identify or explore the nature, quality and costs of residential or village communities and community-based dispersed housing schemes for people with learning disabilities.
What's choice got to do with it: a study of housing and support for people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- COLLINS Jean
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 47p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Research study looking at recent developments in services for people with learning difficulties, which mean that services are independent of housing. These separate arrangements are supposed to give people greater choice and independence, but it could be argued that housing and support need to be inter-related if people are to enjoy a 'seamless' service. The study looks at 11 housing and support services and concludes that service values rather than contract specifications and purchase arrangements actually have most impact on people's daily lives.
The Life Experiences Checklist. Part 2. Applications in service evaluation and quality assurance
- Author:
- AGER Alastair
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap, 21(2), June 1993, pp.46-48.
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Mental Handicap
Highlights applications of the Life Experiences Checklist in the areas of service evaluation and quality assurance. Studies of community-based and hospital services using the LEC are described, and implications for service planning are summarised. The potential role of the LEC in procedures to identify service deficiencies is described.
Transforming care for people with learning disabilities: next steps
- Authors:
- NHS ENGLAND, et al
- Publisher:
- NHS England
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 27
- Place of publication:
- London
A joint report from the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, Care Quality Commission, Department of Health, Health Education England, local Government Association, and NHS England which sets how they intend to improve the quality of life of people learning disabilities following the 'Winterborne view: time for change' report by Sir Stephen Bubb. The report outlines key aims of reducing the number of people placed in hospital, reducing the length of time those admitted spend there, and improving the quality of both hospital and community settings. Plans include: empowering people and families to challenge their admission or continued placement in inpatient care; working with local authorities and other providers to get the right care in the right place; raising the quality of care through regulation and inspection; and increasing workforce capability by improving their skills and practice. (Edited publisher abstract)
Evaluating an assertive outreach team for supporting clients who present behaviour that challenges
- Authors:
- MCKENZIE Karen, PATERSON Marion
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 38(4), December 2010, pp.319-327.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article evaluates an assertive outreach team which aimed to help support people with a learning disability who displayed challenging behaviour in their own environment. This service was based in a predominantly rural area of Scotland. Its remit was to provide assessment and support to individuals who were in danger of their community placement breaking down. The evaluation was conducted using Maxwell’s Multi-dimensional Quality Evaluation Model, which recognises that different stakeholders in a service are likely to focus on different indices of quality. These dimensions against which quality can be measured are effectiveness, efficiency, economy, equity, access to services, appropriateness and social acceptability. The majority of the information for the evaluation was obtained from existing data which was routinely collected and collated by the service. In addition, questionnaires were completed by assertive outreach team staff and community learning disability team staff. The results found that the main strengths of the team were staff skills and professionalism, whereas the most frequently cited weaknesses centred around issues of liaison, communication and the role and remit of the team.
Reviewing respite services: some lessons from the literature
- Authors:
- COTTERILL Lesley, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 12(5), November 1997, pp.775-788.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Although the community care reforms raised the profile of respite services for adults with learning disabilities, little is known about the character of respite provision in Britain. This lack of information is compounded by the way the literature about respite is dispersed across user groups and is often restricted to particular types of services or to specific localities. Highlight some of the key issues associated with respite, and draws on a wide range of literature. Argues that a break with the traditional notion of respite as primarily a way to relieve carer burden is long overdue.