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Goal!
- Author:
- SPACKMAN Angela
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 5.8.93, 1993, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Reports on staff involvement in the first twelve months of a project to introduce Total Quality Management to services for people with learning disabilities in Southampton.
Steps to a better service
- Author:
- JOHNSON D.
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 7.6.90, 1990, pp.844-845.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Describes a list of quality indicators produced by the staff of a small day care centre.
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.
An exploration of communication within active support for adults with high and low support needs
- Authors:
- IACONO Teresa, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 32(1), 2019, pp.61-70.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Background: The aim was to explore the relationship between quality of active support and communication support for people in group homes with high and low support needs. Methods: Data from 182 service users, 20–81 years (mean = 40), 89 with high support needs, were observed to have either good (n = 142) or poor (n = 40) communication support. Measures were of quality of active support, engagement and staff contact; field notes provided examples of good and poor communication supports. Results: We found a relationship between the quality of communication support and active support. Receiving good communication was associated with higher levels of engagement. Field notes included some examples of appropriate communication supports, but limited use of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). Conclusions: Staff show limited use of appropriate communication with people having high support needs who require AAC. Strategies to improve quality of practice are discussed. (Edited publisher abstract)
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.
Investigating organisational culture: a comparison of a 'high' and a 'low' performing residential unit for people with intellectual disabilities
- Authors:
- GILLERT Elizabeth, STENFERT-KROESE Biza
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 16(4), December 2003, pp.279-284.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This pilot study investigates organisational culture in small community-based residential services for people with intellectual disabilities, one of the under-researched determinants of staff behaviour and performance. Staff performance is of primary importance in the provision of quality services. Two matched residential units were assessed using COMPASS: A Multi-Perspective Evaluation of Quality in Home Life, and identified as 'high' and 'low' performing. The organisational culture of the units was assessed using the Organisational Culture Inventory in order to investigate any associations. The unit with better quality outcomes demonstrated a more positive organizational culture overall, with statistically significant lower scores on three negatively influential cultural styles, namely, oppositional, competitive and perfectionistic. There may well be a meaningful relationship between organisational culture and quality outcomes, although the nature of this relationship is far from clear. The continuation of investigations into organisational culture is encouraged
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.
Health and social care workers' knowledge and application of the concept of duty of care
- Authors:
- MCKENZIE Karen, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adult Protection, 3(4), November 2001, pp.29-37.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Reports on a study using vignettes to examines the understanding and application of the concept of duty of care by health and social care staff working in learning disability services, and the relationship of this to promoting client choice. The study found that health care staff had a significantly broader understanding of the concept of duty of care than social care staff, and were significantly more likely to emphasises client safety. Discusses the implications of the findings.
The quality of residential and day services for adults with intellectual disabilities in eight local authorities in England: objective data gained in support of a social inspectorate inspection
- Authors:
- FELCE David, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 12(4), 1999, pp.273-293.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Objective data on the quality of 15 residential homes and 17 day centres were collected as part of a Social Services Inspectorate inspection of services for adults with learning disabilities in eight local authorities in England. A sample of 56 residents was drawn from the former and information collected on their behavioural characteristics, social and community integration, autonomy, receipt of attention and assistance from staff, and participation in activity.