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Co-production in transforming care: checking if co-production is happening
- Author:
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
- Publisher:
- Local Government Association
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 17
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide explains what co-production means, how to check if co-production is happening, and what Transforming Care Partnerships can do to support co-production. Transforming Care Partnerships are the groups of people working together to improve services and support for people with a learning disability and people with autism who display behaviour that challenges. The guide suggests that key indicators that co-production is happening include: there is a co-produced policy on co-production that shows the way everyone will work; there is a clear plan on co-production that has been co-produced; how the Transforming Care Partnership works is built on the co-production principles; all communication is open and easy to understand; and there is evidence of a ‘shift in power’ to people and families from professionals. (Edited publisher abstract)
How to make information accessible: a guide to producing easy read documents
- Author:
- CHANGE
- Publisher:
- Change
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 46p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
This guidance produced by the National Equality Partnership and CHANGE, a national organisation led by disabled people, aims to make written information accessible to those who may find reading and writing difficult. Central to this is the belief that people who have learning difficulties have the expertise and knowledge to prepare such a document, and have done so with this guide. Here, accessible information means easy words and pictures, a style of language developed by people with learning disabilities over the past 15 years. Characterised by writing in short, simple sentences without jargon or hard words, clear and easy to understand pictures are used to support words, with an added value of helping those who do not have English as a first language. It takes time and money to create information to the easy words and pictures standard, so it is important to choose carefully which documents to use. It is suggested that some information could be made more accessible by the use of other, cheaper methods such as multimedia. The authors define jargon and hard words, detail laws such as the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) and the 2006 Disability Equality Duty (DED) and advise on involving people with learning disabilities on how to improve accessibility and presentation of documents. Presented throughout, in the style of easy words and pictures, practical advice is given on how to prepare a document with a checklist and examples of good practice concluding the text.
Multi-agency inspection of services for people with learning disabilities in Ayrshire: accessible summary
- Author:
- SOCIAL WORK INSPECTION AGENCY
- Publisher:
- Social Work Inspection Agency
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 19p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
An accessible summary of a report of services for people with learning disabilities in North Ayrshire, East Ayrshire and South Ayrshire is presented. The inspection looked at services for people with learning disabilities and their families in each of the three areas and covered services provided by the local council, particularly social work and education, the NHS, and others such as Strathclyde Police. The team of people that came to Ayrshire to check up on how good services were for people with learning disabilities included people with learning disabilities and family carers.
Choosing staff: involving people with learning difficulties in staff recruitment
- Authors:
- TOWNSLEY Ruth, MACADAM Margaret
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 94p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
More organisations are beginning to involve people with learning difficulties in choosing staff, and service users themselves have highlighted this issue as crucial if they are to be fully involved in planning and delivering services. The authors explored the extent and nature of user involvement in recruiting staff for statutory, voluntary and private day and residential services.
Research: what it is and how to do it
- Author:
- CUPPLES Joan
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 38p.
- Place of publication:
- Minehead
Provides an easy to read training handbook (including a tape) for people being supported to do research in the community.
Intellectual disability: the response of the church
- Editors:
- KELLY Brian, McGINLEY Patrick
- Publisher:
- Lisieux Hall Publications
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 104p.
- Place of publication:
- Chorley, Lancs.
Collection of essays on the religious response to learning disabilities, written from a Catholic point of view. Discusses issues such as the involvement of people with learning disabilities in worship and church life, the work of the l'Arche community, the use of circles of support, and examples of projects giving pastoral support to people with learning difficulties.
Person centred purchasing: report of an inter-regional conference and follow-up day to promote the implementation of community care for people with learning disabilities; 1 November and 7 December 1994
- Author:
- NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TEAM
- Publisher:
- National Development Team
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 40p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Sticking up for yourself: self-advocacy and people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- SIMONS Ken
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 82p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Report examining what user participation can mean in practice, looking in particular at self-advocacy and people with learning difficulties. Explores the experiences of service users, supporters and staff.
Towards participation in the All Wales Strategy: Issues and processes
- Author:
- GRANT Gordon
- Publisher:
- University College of North Wales. Department of Social Theory and Institutions
- Publication year:
- 1986
- Pagination:
- 12p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bangor
Working together for change: a service manager's guide to involving staff and families in service improvement
- Authors:
- PORTERFIELD Jan, EVANS Gerry, BLUNDEN Roger
- Publisher:
- Mental Handicap in Wales, Applied Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1983
- Pagination:
- 50p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff