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Six lives: progress report on healthcare for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 85
- Place of publication:
- London
This report charts the progress that has been made in healthcare for people with a learning disability since 2010. It is the second of two progress reports that the Department has published since the original Six Lives report, published in 2009, which investigated the deaths of six people with learning disabilities. It includes the personal perspectives of people with learning disabilities and their families and an easy read summary. (Edited publisher abstract)
National care standards: care homes for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Government
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Government
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 78p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
- Edition:
- Rev ed.
The National Care Standards Committee was set up by the Scottish Government to develop national standards in collaboration with a number of working groups including service users and service providers. They are designed to be from the point of view of service users to help them to understand what they can expect from the service provider. They may also be of use to service providers to help them know what is expected of them. The standards in this publication cover care homes for people with learning disabilities. These services provide accommodation together with nursing and personal care or support to people with learning disabilities. People with learning disabilities have the same rights and responsibilities as other people. These standards aim to make sure that people with learning disabilities keep these rights and responsibilities when they are staying in a care home. The standards are grouped under 4 headings: before moving in; settling in; day-to-day life; and moving on.
Six lives: progress report summary: easy read
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 13p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This is an Easy Read summary of the progress report written for the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman and Local Government Ombudsman. The progress report is in response to the recommendations in their 2009 report Six Lives: The Provision of Public Services to People with Learning Disabilities, which investigated the deaths of six people with learning disabilities. It describes the background, and looks at progress in doing what the ombudsmen asked, what was found out, things that are making a difference, and things that people were worried about. It also notes that more work needs to be done to make things better for people with learning disabilities, and summarises what happens next.
Six lives: progress report
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 58p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman and Local Government Ombudsman published the Six Lives: The Provision of Public Services to People with Learning Disabilities report in March 2009, which investigated the deaths of six people with learning disabilities. This progress report in response to the recommendations in the Six Lives report was prepared using information and views gathered from a range of service providers, service users and other relevant people and groups. It looks at the Six Lives recommendations, discussing reviewing and reporting, regulatory bodies, and the role of the Department of Health, and what seems to be making a difference and what is causing most concern in terms of impact. It notes that much work has been undertaken to improve care and treatment of people with learning disabilities, but that more needs to be done.
Still a small voice: consumer involvement in the All Wales Strategy; a survey of local authority perspectives
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Welsh Office
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Welsh Office
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 42p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Surveys 8 county councils, and 96 settings with 755 residents to see whether services were accountable to consumers, and whether, in residential life, people had a positive choice.
Valuing employment now: job coaching or supported employment: approach and progress in developing standards
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Valuing Employment Now
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Government view on supported employment (a personalised approach to working with people with significant disabilities, including people with learning disabilities and autism, to access and retain open employment) was outlined in Valuing Employment Now (2009). This included a commitment to publish standards for job coaching to drive improvements in supported employment provision. Stating that agreement on a definition of supported employment is the starting point in the development of standards for job coaching, this document outlines the Government's draft definition of supported employment. It covers what supported employment is and its guiding principles, the supported employment model and key stages for employer and employee, job matching, arranging the right support, career development, employability skills, and who provides supported employment. It also sets out planned next steps for the Government: making the draft standards accessible; seeking views from stakeholders including disabled people, family carers, providers of supported employment and employers to agree the definition and the terminology to be used to describe both supported employment and job coaches; development of national standards.
The Learning Disability Strategy: the user group report
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- London
'Valuing People’ places considerable emphasis on the importance of developing services in the light of person-centred planning and on modernising day centres. In brief, this means that the wishes and aspirations of individuals should be taken as the starting point and that holistic, individualised services should be created around them rather than their fitting into pre-determined services.
The review of the all Wales strategy: a view from the users; a report on a survey of 50 self-advocacy groups involving 433 service users
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Welsh Office
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Welsh Office
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 52p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Looks at short-term care, help in the home, support and accommodation, day opportunities and consumer involvement.
Direct choices: what councils need to make direct payments happen for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 18p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The resource consists of information that councils will find helpful when seeking to enable people with learning disabilities to receive and use direct payments. It includes information on decision-making; on the management of a direct payment; on the provision of appropriate and accessible information; and on the support that people may need. It brings together existing information from a variety of sources, as well as using new information drawn directly from interviews with council direct payment staff, direct payment support groups and people currently using direct payments.