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The Southampton action on quality project
- Author:
- SPACKMAN Angela
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap, 20(3), September 1992, pp.112-116.
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Mental Handicap
The aim of the project is to develop a total quality management approach in the service; workshops based on a modified version of the Welsh Standards Matrix are followed up by regular review meetings with staff.
Quality in staff development: the Southampton project for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- SPACKMAN Angela
- Publisher:
- University of Southampton. Institute for Health Policy Studies
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 50p.
- Place of publication:
- Southampton
Pack concerned with helping staff working in services for people with learning disabilities to work towards the development of high quality services. Contains notes for facilitators on setting up and running workshops on the subject as well as handouts and sample letters.
Modernising social services: implications for the development of staff training in learning disability services
- Author:
- BRAND Don
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 5(2), April 2000, pp.36-43.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This paper looks at government's agenda for social care, and assesses its implications for managers developing staff training in learning disability services. It sets out the principles and proposals in Modernising Social Services and describes the government's early steps to implement change and outlines the main features of the new regulatory framework for social care contained in the Care Standards Bill. Goes on to consider the implications for staff training in learning disability services, drawing on TOPSS England's draft National Training Strategy, and identifies areas for consideration by local managers and education and training providers.
Values into action: tools for development and training
- Author:
- PAYNE Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Practice and Staff Development, 4(2), January 1995, pp.57-80.
- Publisher:
- PEPAR Publications
Summarises a number of packages that have a common aim of establishing a sound value base for services, particularly for older people and adults with learning difficulties and mental health problems.
Clinical governance standards for mental health and learning disability services
- Author:
- CLINICAL GOVERNANCE SUPPORT SERVICE
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 22p.
- Place of publication:
- London
These standards cover key aspects of clinical governance relevant to health trusts providing mental health and learning disability services. Contents: clinical governance strategy and structures; service user and carer involvement and experience; clinical audit; clinical risk management; evidence based practice; staffing and staff management; education, training and continuing professional development; information management.
Services for children with learning disability: international perspectives on residential child care
- Editor:
- BARLOW Gerald
- Publisher:
- University of Strathclyde. Centre for Residential Child Care
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 50p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
Includes papers on: services for children with learning difficulties; between the ideal and the reality; exploring the relationship of the child educator; the Camphill Diploma Course in Curative Education; respite care in the Ottawa Rotary Home; a holistic approach at the Linn Moor Special Residential School; twenty two years of residential care for special needs children; education, care and therapy at the St. Margaret's School; the network family programme in Tasmania; and putting the concept of quality of care into operation.
Auditing service quality in residential and supported housing services: creating conditions for service improvement
- Authors:
- JOYCE Theresa, CLOSE Wendy
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 2(4), October 1997, pp.18-26.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
It is essential that the quality of residential services is monitored, both to identify service deterioration and to improve service quality. Current models of community services have produced fragmentation among service providers, and a separation of purchasers and providers. This article illustrates how these different groups can work together by participating in the auditing of each others services. Outlines an audit carried out in Lewisham for services for people with learning difficulties. Highlights the lessons learned from the process and the findings of the audit so far.
Commentary: auditing service quality in residential and supported housing services: creating conditions for service improvement
- Author:
- TENNANT Laurence
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 2(4), October 1997, pp.27-30.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Comments on a previous article in this issue of 'Tizard Learning Disability Review'. Argues that the article offers valuable insights into the complexities of service audits and outlines a practical approach addressing some of the disadvantages of the purchaser-provider split. Goes on to highlight the main factors which contribute to the maintenance of high quality care practice.
The cost and quality of community residential care: an evaluation of the services for adults with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- RAYNES Norma V., et al
- Publisher:
- David Fulton
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 108p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Deals with ways of measuring cost and quality in residential care homes in the community in all sectors providing such services. Explores links between cost and quality and addresses issues such as the impact of size, staffing ratios, training and staff morale on the quality of service delivery, focusing in particular on accommodation for people with learning difficulties.
Towards integration: comprehensive services for people with mental handicaps
- Editor:
- SINES David
- Publisher:
- Harper and Row
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 339p., bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Examples and recommendations for the community care of mentally handicapped people.