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Quality Guaranteed
- Author:
- LEESON Jayne
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, 10(7), August 2010, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
This article highlights the work of an audit teams made up of self-advocates. The Changing Our Lives audit team was formed in 2004 when a group of self-advocates decided they wanted to find out how they could check that services giving people with learning disabilities a good quality life. Over the next two years this group wrote a set of sixteen quality of life standards and developed a person-centred strategy of auditing services. Six years later, the team is made up of eight trained, paid auditors with learning disabilities. In the last two years this team has carried out one hundred and fifteen audits across a range of services including residential, nursing and supported living services, short breaks, day services, acute hospital services, mental health inpatient units, a low security forensic unit and learning disability mental health step down services. One of the auditors summed up their work saying, “We need to make sure people with learning disabilities are leading quality lives and being treated as equal in the community.”
User participation in services for people with learning disabilities: conference proceedings
- Author:
- HIGGINS Joan
- Publisher:
- University of Southampton. Institute for Health Policy Studies
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 50p.
- Place of publication:
- Southampton
Includes papers on: the Southampton action on quality project; pathway to a consumer feedback mechanism - project report; the patient's charter and people with learning disabilities; quality action groups; self and citizen advocacy; and consumer involvement and the All Wales strategy.
Better lives: changing services for people with learning difficulties
- Editor:
- BOOTH Tim
- Publisher:
- University of Sheffield. Joint Unit for Social Services Research
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 137p.,tables,diags.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Sheffield
Papers from a conference organised by Community Care and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on 27 April 1990 at Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall. Issues discussed include: quality of service, experiences of people resettling in the community; self advocacy; promoting residents rights; developing friendships; and families with young adults with challenging behaviour.