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Progression through partnership: a joint strategy between the DfES, DH and DWP on the role of further education and training in supporting people with learning difficulties and/or disabilities to achieve fulfilling lives
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Education and Skills, GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health, GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Education and Skills
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 39p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Government is committed to improving the life chances of people with learning difficulties and/or disabilities. It wants to develop services which centre around the needs of disabled people and provide seamless support to help everyone achieve their full potential. This report sets out a vision of how the departments most closely involved in this area will work together to deliver high quality support and incentives for young people and adults with learning difficulties and/or disabilities in further education and training.
Reducing the need for restraint and restrictive intervention. Children and young people with learning disabilities, autistic spectrum disorder and mental health difficulties. Draft guidance for consultation
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health, GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Education
- Publishers:
- Great Britain. Department of Health, Great Britain. Department for Education
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 49
- Place of publication:
- London
Draft guidance on reducing the need for restraint and restrictive intervention for children and young people with learning disabilities, autistic spectrum disorder and mental health needs. The guidance is designed to help health and care settings and special educational services to adopt a preventative approach to supporting children and young people whose behaviour challenges. It highlights action to improve planning, the assessment and management of risks and the use of evidence-based practice so that restraint is used only where necessary, by trained staff and in line with the law, core values and ethical principles. Sections of the guidance cover: adopting a positive and proactive approach to behaviour; values and principles that should be followed when developing policies and practice on behaviour and the use of restraint; a summary key actions for settings and services, and considerations when using different forms of restraint. The guidance is non-statutory and will apply to health and care settings and special educational settings. The guidance is open to consultation period unity 24 January 2018. (Edited publisher abstract)
Pathways to getting a life: transition planning for full lives
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 26p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Valuing People Now sets out the Government’s strategy to improve the experience of young people with learning disabilities as they move into adulthood. The Getting a Life programme was one of 3 Valuing Employment Now demonstration programmes which focused on how to increase the number of young people going into full-time paid employment. The programme designed an employment pathway that sets out the most critical things that need to happen during transition. The success of this pathway has led to the development of similar pathways for housing, health, friends, and community. These pathways have been designed to show what needs to happen at each stage of a young person’s progress through transition and into adulthood, using the principles and methods of person-centred transition planning and support planning so that they can have jobs, friends, their own homes and choice and control over their lives. The aim of this document is to bring together what has been learned about transition planning for young people with learning disabilities from Valuing People Now and Getting a Life. Each section describes one of the pathways to Getting a Life: pathway into employment; housing pathway; planning for good health pathway; and developing friendships, relationships and community pathway.