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Better health for people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TEAM FOR INCLUSION, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DISABILITY GROUP
- Publisher:
- National Development Team for Inclusion
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 20
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This guide provides information for social care providers and support workers on how they can help improve the health of the people with learning disabilities they support. Specifically, it looks at the covers the role they can play to ensure that people with learning disabilities are on the GP learning disability Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) register, get annual health checks and have additional information on their Summary Care Record that says what reasonable adjustments they need. The guide has been commissioned by NHS England has been developed by NDTI with the support of the VODG. (Original abstract)
The right to a relationship: addressing the barriers that people with learning disabilities face in developing and sustaining intimate and sexual relationships
- Author:
- NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TEAM FOR INCLUSION
- Publisher:
- National Development Team for Inclusion
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Pagination:
- 45
- Place of publication:
- London
This research, co-produced with My Life My Choice, explores the barriers people with learning disabilities experience in developing and sustaining intimate relationships. It also looks at the commissioning and support practices that can help people with learning disabilities to develop and sustain intimate relationships and the policy and practice changes needed to address these barriers. Using a mixed-methods approach, the research collected data through focus groups and interviews with people with learning disabilities, responses to a survey and interviews with service providers. Approximately 115 people participated in the project throughout the various stages and direct quotations from participants are included throughout. The research found that people with learning disabilities experience many barriers in developing and sustaining intimate relationships. These included: limited opportunities to meet potential partners, staff and family members preventing people from being in a relationship, limited knowledge about sexuality and keeping safe, and lack of money and transport. Things that could help people be in an intimate relationship, included being recognised and respected as adults with rights, having supportive social and community networks, and having knowledge about relationships and sexuality. Based on the findings, the report provides recommendations for providers and areas for future research (Edited publisher abstract)