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Sharing social care's best kept secret: Growing Shared Lives: a practical guide
- Author:
- SHARED LIVES PLUS
- Publisher:
- Shared Lives Plus
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 9
- Place of publication:
- Liverpool
A toolkit to help commissioners, directors, and heads of service who want to grow Shared Lives and offer more personalised, strengths-based adult social care. Shared Lives is a community-based service that offers accommodation and support to adults with learning disabilities and other social care needs. It can offer long-term accommodation, where the person with support needs lives with the carer in the carer's home as part of their family and community life. The evidence suggests that Shared Lives is cost-effective, saving between £8k and 30k per annum, depending on the person's support needs and local alternative services. The briefing is centred on a desk-based review of recent evaluations and evidence, along with interviews and workshops with stakeholders from across adult social care. Lessons from local authorities with experience of the scheme cover: committed leadership; develop strong links with transitions teams; align housing strategy with Shared Lives growth; regional collaboration; effective commissioning; making the case for investment; embedding Shared Lives into business-as-usual; ensuring carers' fees are reviewed; ensuring there are sufficient carers' breaks provision; developing champions; targeted communications and recruitment. (Edited publisher abstract)
Person centred commissioning - now: a pathway approach to commissioning learning disability support
- Authors:
- FULTON Kate, WINFIELD Claire
- Publisher:
- Improvement and Development Agency
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 28p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This document explores some examples of what is working well nationally in learning disability commissioning - and how that learning could be used to develop a person-centred commissioning pathway for the future. No one area claims to have everything right, but each example shows a part of the pathway being implemented successfully, and within a person-centred approach. The report should be useful for commissioners, especially to focus them on developing action plans for the way forward.
Support for living?: the impact of the supporting people programme on housing and support for adults with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- FYSON Rachel, TARLETON Beth, WARD Linda
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 68p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
The Supporting People programme, which began on 1 April 2003, was designed to separate out the costs of bricks-and-mortar housing (which, where needed, would continue to be paid through Housing Benefit) from the costs of the support necessary to enable vulnerable adults to attain or maintain independent tenancies. For people with learning disabilities, this new funding mechanism appeared to offer a much-needed opportunity for some of the changes set out in the 2001 Valuing People White Paper to be made a reality. This research project set out to examine how local Supporting People teams were interpreting national guidelines in relation to the provision of housing-related support and to explore the impact that this was having on people with learning disabilities. It also hoped to discover the extent to which the Valuing People core aims – of promoting rights, choice, independence and control in the lives of people with learning disabilities – were being supported by this new programme
Care tech landscape review: learning disability
- Authors:
- BLOOMFIELD Peter, DE VILLA Cristina Ruiz
- Publisher:
- Future Care Capital
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Pagination:
- 31
- Place of publication:
- London
This research provides an overview of learning disability technology solutions and maps the technology companies providing solutions for people with learning disabilities. This review highlights where there are gaps in technology provisions and consult with experts in the learning disability technology domain to better understand how a larger number of appropriate solutions could be provided to the sector. The research identified 19 companies developing digital technology solutions for the learning disability market. The key findings demonstrate the size of the market, locations of companies developing solutions and quantifies the available information about investment in solutions. The main technologies being developed were: Apps (14), Platforms (6) and IoT (Internet of Things) technologies (5). Key applications being developed include: accessible communication; remote monitoring; and tech to support those with learning disabilities to exercise their agency. One key omission, is assistive technology, despite encompassing such a broad range of uses, the technologies seen in this review are comparatively limited. Brief case studies in the report include: Vodafone and Mencap Case Study and the Connected Living Solution. (Edited publisher abstract)
Developing an easy read version of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT)
- Authors:
- TURNPENNY Agnes, et al
- Publisher:
- Quality and Outcomes of Person-centred Care Policy Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 89
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
This study aims to develop and test a robust easy read version of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT), and ensure it meets the needs of respondents with learning disabilities. ASCOT is a measure of social care-related quality of life and is used as part of the Personal Social Services Adult Social Care Survey in England. An easy read version of ASCOT could ensure that social care research include people who, although having capacity to consent to taking part in research, are not able to respond to standard questionnaires and surveys. This study indicates that the revised easy read version adequately represents the ASCOT domains and the standard questionnaire. However, ASCOT-ER might benefit from further systematic testing, particularly around validity and reliability. (Edited publisher abstract)
Active support: a handbook for supporting people with learning disabilities to lead full lives
- Authors:
- JONES Edwin, et al
- Publisher:
- ARC
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 60p.
- Place of publication:
- Chesterfield
The authors of the Active Support Handbook have updated the original 6 booklets to create a useful Handbook. The active support project was a highly successful project in Wales, which has now become the UK-wide Active Support Practice Development Service. The Active Support Service can provide training, consultancy and information to any organisation wishing to implement Active Support. Active Support is proven to improve the lives of service users, making it easier to live independently and have greater quality of life. The Active Support Handbook is organised into four sections. Part one: an overview – this looks at what active support is, how to implement it and why it is so important. Part two: interacting to promote participation – this looks at supporting engagement, dealing with problems and thinking in steps. Part three: activity support plans – this part details what an activity support plan is, how it can be used, keeping track of these plans and administration. Part four: maintaining quality – this looks at working as a team, being consistent, positive managerial support, using the information recorded and quality assurance. The Active Support Handbook is a useful resource for anyone supporting people in an adult social care setting.
Adults' personal social services: specific revenue grants and capital grant allocations for 2011-12 and 2012-13
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A letter confirming local authorities adults’ Personal Social Services (PSS) specific revenue funding (Learning Disabilities and Health Reform Grant) and capital grant funding for the period 2011-13. Annexes provide full details of the Department of Health settlement including actual funding allocations for each authority for specific revenue grants in 2011-12 and details of provisional funding allocations for each authority for specific revenue grants in 2012-13.
Developing social care: service users' vision for adult support
- Authors:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, BERESFORD Peter, et al
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 61p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report is based on the views of a very diverse range of social care service users – 112 in all – gathered from many different parts of the country. More than a quarter of the participants in this project were black or from minority ethnic communities. The study was almost entirely undertaken by service users and their organisations, drawing on their networks and experience at local and national levels in undertaking user-led research, evaluation and consultation. There was a remarkable degree of consistency and agreement in what different service users and service users from different parts of the country said. The report is organised in three parts: the first sets out how the consultation was undertaken; the second contains the views of service users generally; and the third reports the views of three specific groups of of people with learning difficulties to ensure that their comments have equal visibility.
Learning disability and autism social care providers: financial impact assessment
- Author:
- CORDIS BRIGHT
- Publisher:
- Cordis Bright
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 21
- Place of publication:
- London
Cordis Bright was commissioned by a group of providers (both private sector and not for profits) of services for adults with a learning disability and autistic people to undertake a financial impact assessment of the current economic environment. Organisations participating in this research include Affinity Trust, Alternative Futures, Choice Support, Creative Support, Dimensions, Mencap, Turning Point and United Response. of Covid grants. Providers are trapped between two financial pressures: on the one hand they want to pay their skilled workforce as much as they can, and they also recognise the need to try and stay above National Living Wage (NLW), and if possible, to pay UK Living Wage or higher. At the same time, they are limited in the resources they have to pay these additional uplifts given their financial dependence upon local government and the NHS. Ultimately, they are competing in a reduced pool of labour not just with other sectors of the economy and the NHS, but with staffing agencies themselves who then sell staff time back to the provider at a higher rate. The findings show the culmination of sustained underfunding of social care and labour shortages which increases cost, reduces quality, creates greater market instability and is in turn exacerbated by low pay. The consequences for people with a learning disability and autism are that they will ultimately be denied the choice and dignity of a decent, fulfilling, and stable quality of life. The report recommends that central government commit to the principle of pay parity for equivalent roles across the whole NHS and social care economy, promoting this as the minimum pay floor rate for social care staff, and fund local authorities accordingly. (Edited publisher abstract)
Care home census for adults in Scotland statistics for 2009-2019
- Author:
- Public Health Scotland
- Publisher:
- Public Health Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Pagination:
- 44
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
This release provides information from the annual Care Home Census for Adults in Scotland on the numbers of care homes, registered places, residents, admissions and discharges. In relation to all care homes for adults the data shows that: at 31 March 2019, there were 1,102 care homes for adults and 41,032 registered places – these are a 22% and 5% decrease since 31 March 2009, respectively; there were an estimated 35,630 residents aged 18 years and over in care homes – a 5% decrease since 31 March 2009; from 31 March 2009 to 31 March 2019, the estimated percentage occupancy increased slightly, from 86% to 87%; on 31 March 2019, residents in care homes for older people accounted for 91% of residents in all care homes for adults. Main points relating to care homes for older people include: at 31 March 2019, there were an estimated 30,914 long stay residents in care homes for older people – a reduction of 4% since 31 March 2009 (32,226); and there were 1,531 residents in a care home for these purposes – an increase of 49% compared with 31 March 2009 (1,029). In relation to care homes for learning disabilities, mental health problems, and physical and sensory impairment the data shows that: on 31 March 2019, there were 159 care homes for learning disabilities providing 1,587 places, 55 care homes for mental health problems providing 978 places, and 41 care homes for physical and sensory impairment providing 666 places; the estimated percentage occupancy in care homes for learning disabilities was 89%, and was 92% in care homes for mental health problems, and physical and sensory impairment. (Edited publisher abstract)