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Assessing the quality of service provision for people with challenging needs placed out of borough
- Authors:
- LEDGER Sue, SHUFFLEBOTHAM Lindy
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 11(4), October 2006, pp.19-27.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This commentary raises a number of risk and practice issues relevant to out-of-area placements. It also considers briefly some of the changes needed to reverse the continued pattern of 'exporting' people with complex challenging behaviour needs. The article comments on a report of study looking at out-of-area placement in Lambeth.
Assessing the quality of service provision for people with challenging needs placed out of borough
- Author:
- BECKER Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 11(4), October 2006, pp.12-18.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article describes the secondment of a health professional to the care management team to assess the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of out-of-borough placements for individuals who present challenging behaviour. Lambeth Partnership agreed that dedicated psychology/challenging needs time of a practitioner with more than 10 years' experiences in the borough would be available to the care management team, creating collaborative working and enhancing the existing service. To assess the quality of services, a questionnaire was developed that covered demographics, types of service provision and intervention package employed (including monitoring and outcome measures), implementation of person centred-planning (PCP) and the views of stakeholders. This paper summarises the finding of five months of assessing the quality of service provision for people with challenging needs placed out of the London Borough of Lambeth.