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Being a carer and having a carer's assessment: how to get help if you are doing a lot to look after another person: a resource pack for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- MAGRILL Dalia
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Valuing People Support Team
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 42p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This pack provides information to help people with learning disabilities understand whether they are a carer, what their rights are and what is available to help them. The pack has sections covering: Am I a carer?; What are my rights?; Having a carers assessment; What help can I get. Part 5, Getting ready for my carers' assessment has a form to complete to help to get ready for a carers assessment. The final section provides a guide for workers, advocates, friends or family members who may be supporting people to use the pack. It includes examples of people with learning disabilities who are carers and the services they receive to support them.
Who decides? Using the Mental Capacity Act to support people
- Author:
- JEPSON Marcus
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, 8(1), February 2008, pp.22-27.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 became law in October 2007. This article provides an overview of the Act, including four scenarios to discuss its range and scope. The article is aimed at frontline care staff who might be unsure about how the Act applies to them.
Assessing the capacity to give consent
- Authors:
- DEAN Esia, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 7.10.98, 1998, pp.58-60.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Describes the development of a functional approach to assessing the capacity of people with learning disabilities to grant consent to medical treatment.
Assessment of capacity to make treatment decisions in adults with learning disabilities
- Author:
- WONG Josephine
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 2(3), July 1997, pp.35-39.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Capacity is a key issue in decision making. Assessments of capacity determine whether someone's wishes are to be respected, or if a decision is to be made on his or her behalf. In this article, current legal concepts of 'capacity' are briefly outlined, followed by an analysis of practical difficulties that are likely to be encountered in clinical practice when assessing capacity in adults with learning disabilities. Clinicians are alerted to external factors that may influence a person's decision-making abilities, and possible ways of maximising capacity are presented. Finally, further research directions are suggested.
Meeting the challenge. Guide 2: your rights if you are in an Assessment and Treatment unit: supporter version
- Author:
- MENCAP
- Publisher:
- Mencap
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 12
- Place of publication:
- London
Outlines the rights of people with a learning disability in inpatient settings, like Assessment and Treatment units. This guide aims to help supporters understand the rights of people with a learning disability, so that they can get the right services and support to meet their needs. This will help keep them safe, happy and healthy and make sure they know when things are not going the way that they should and are able to take action. The guide sets out the legal framework, outlining the Human Rights Act and the Mental Capacity Act, explains the role of Assessment and Treatment units, describes what good support should look like, and explains what a person should do if they experience abuse. The guide also provides information about leaving the Assessment and Treatment unit, including appealing against detention, and discharge planning. (Edited publisher abstract)
Learning difficulties
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 9, April 2000, pp.28-30.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
The difficult task of balancing the right of people with learning difficulties to live in the community with the risks involved in doing so has exercised professionals in the field for many years. Describes recent research which examined the development of policies and practices in risk assessment and risk management.
Using video for clients with severe learning disabilities
- Authors:
- ROWLAND George, FENNER Ann, BROWN Dawn
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 8.7.98, 1998, pp.56-57.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Describes the use of videos in the nursing process for people with learning difficulties. Also looks at how videos can be used in life story work and in aiding formal communication.
Social services law: judicial review, financial resources and legitimate expectations
- Author:
- SCHWEHR Belinda
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 2(3), July 1997, pp.23-30.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
In the context of a recent judicial review case, the Court of Appeal has delivered, on the one hand, a powerful weapon for people with disabilities who need social services, but, on the other, managerial implications which are bound to be keeping budget holders awake at night. The final outcome of the case - due for hearing before the Lords at some point in the next year - may well have wider implications for changes to social services legislation generally. Considers the significance of this case for local authorities, practitioners and users of community care services. Goes on to look at the interplay between the concept of statutory discretion and the emergent legal doctrine of substantive legitimate expectation, and its significance for social service attitudes and practice is articulated.
Social work practice with adults
- Authors:
- GALPIN Diane, BATES Natalie
- Publisher:
- Learning Matters
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 124p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Exeter
Based on the direct experience of social work practitioners, this book has the specific aim of providing a critical and analytical exploration of contemporary issues in social work with adults. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field and they cover; personalisation: from consumer rights to human rights, working with older people: managing risk and promoting interdependence, the rising profile of informal care: modernisation and the future of carers’ services, assessment and practice in learning disability services, direct payments and older people: developing a framework for practice, transformation: a future for social work practice? The book forms part of a series of texts written to support social workers studying for post qualifying awards. All are practical in their approach and link directly to the national occupational standards and the General Social Care Council requirements for Post Qualifying Social Work education. This book is also expected to be a useful resource for those completing the Consolidation and Preparation for Specialist Practice (CPSP) programmes.
The code of practice for sheltered housing and related support for older persons in the community
- Author:
- THE CENTRE FOR SHELTERED HOUSING STUDIES
- Publisher:
- Centre for Sheltered Housing Studies
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- Worcester
The standards within the code of practice encompass key issues associated with the provision of for sheltered housing and support for older people, including equal opportunities and diversity, the fostering of independence and the promotion of individual rights an choices. The most recent version of the code has aimed to ensure best value principles, together with the government's agenda for the provision of services for older people. Compliance with the code enables providers to demonstrate that they fully comply with the proposed national common standards framework to be applied within the 'Supporting People' regime.