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Best value review of adult learning disability services Luton Borough Council; May 2002
- Author:
- LITTLE Margaret
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate. East Midlands
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 14p.
- Place of publication:
- Nottingham
Research into practice
- Author:
- FOSKETT Andy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.8.02, 2002, p.49.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at research into the implementation of 'No Secrets', the government guidance on the protection of vulnerable adults.
Self-advocacy:vested interests and misunderstandings
- Author:
- ASPINS Simone
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 30(1), March 2002, pp.3-7.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Examines the vested interests of the different stakeholders and illustrates through examples where some misunderstandings about self-advocacy have arisen.
Best value reviews of learning disability services for adults: a framework for applying person centred principles
- Authors:
- POXTON Richard, GREIG Rob, GIRAUD-SAUNDERS Alison
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This framework has been produced for people who are responsible for designing and leading the implementation of Best Value reviews within the learning disability service area. The lives of people with learning disabilities cannot be compartmentalised. Where they live, what they do during their days, what relationships they develop and so on are all inter-linked. It is thus not possible to consider the effectiveness of services concerned with one aspect of their lives without considering others. The framework therefore proposes that reviews should be conducted on the basis of a “whole system approach”, adopting an across the board response to identified needs. The essence of the framework is about how to apply a person centred approach to a review of services. This has the potential to result in more creative outcomes than a traditional service-based review - as such approaches often take the performance of existing service structures as their starting point. Above all, Best Value is about ensuring that fundamental questions are asked about the appropriateness of services, how they are delivered and whether they are meeting needs effectively. This framework offers the potential to do this.
Bridging the divide at transition: what happens for young people with learning difficulties and their families?
- Authors:
- HESLOP Pauline, et al
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 140p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Kidderminster
This report is based on a survey of 283 families, interviews with parents and young people with learning difficulties. Contents include: the need for transition planning; moving between children's and adult services; what affects a young person's move towards independence; what families and young people themselves say would improve the transition experience; examples of innovative practice.
Helping hand to justice
- Authors:
- MacKINNON Shelagh, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 31.10.02, 2002, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on a multi-agency investigation into alleged sexual offences involving people with learning difficulties. It is providing promising results, enabling the best available evidence to be obtained from witnesses.
Best evidence
- Author:
- HOPKINS Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 10.10.02, 2002, p.40.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on a scheme in Staffordshire where social services and police are working together to improve collecting evidence from people with learning difficulties who are victims of sexual abuse.
The centre cannot hold
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 30.5.02, 2002, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The government is looking to move away from the traditional day centre, which has been criticised as inflexible and monotonous, towards day services directed at individuals. Asks whether the funding will be sufficient to make a real difference.
Shifting the focus to the learner's needs
- Author:
- MAUDSLAY Liz
- Journal article citation:
- Adults Learning, 13(7), March 2002, pp.17-18.
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Adult Continuing Education
The concept of person centred planning is central to the Department of Health White Paper Valuing People. Further documents issued under the general title, 'Planning with people - towards person centred approaches' reinforces this policy. Looks at the implications for people with learning difficulties.
Not just about the money: reshaping social care for self-determination
- Author:
- DOWSON Steve
- Publisher:
- Community Living,|Emprise International Training and Consultancy
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 48p.
- Place of publication:
- Bury St. Edmunds
Direct Payments should be regarded as the first step towards a system in which all the functions are allocated logically and clearly, avoiding conflicts of interest. Systems which follow this model, generically termed Individualised Funding (IF), already exist. Some fifty programmes are under way in several countries. Evaluations of these programmes are only now emerging, but reveal outcomes that are strikingly positive. Although the evidence is not, as yet, conclusive, there are also strong indications that a comprehensive IF system would be more effective in supporting selfdetermination, especially for people with learning difficulties, than the current Direct Payments provision. The development of Direct Payments into a comprehensive system of Individualised Funding would involve: permitting people who require support services, and wish to use IF, to develop and cost their own support plans, reflecting their own life aspirations ( this would replace community care assessment); creating a system in which the limitations of public funding are balanced against the requirements of the individual through a process of open negotiation between the person and the council, based on the plan prepared by the individual; providing funding to individuals who require assistance in developing their plan, so that they are able to purchase this help from a source that is independent of Social Services and service providers, and who is accountable solely to the disabled person; ensuring that help is available to people who receive IF in the administration of their funding, and, if required, in meeting the legal responsibilities as employer of personal assistants; encouraging the development of a market of support provider agencies who are willing and able to provide services tailored to the requirements of individual IF recipients; and authorising and funding an agency in each locality to regulate the supply of independent service brokers, and to provide an access point for people requiring brokerage services.