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Learning disabilities and homelessness
- Authors:
- TICKLE Anna, et al
- Publisher:
- Groundswell
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 19
- Place of publication:
- London
This toolkit is designed for organisations in England who support people experiencing homelessness and severe multiple disadvantage (SMD), which refers to experiencing some combination of homelessness, mental health problems, substance misuse, offending, and domestic and sexual violence and abuse. Some of the contents may be helpful to those outside England, but information on support services is limited to England. Staff and managers in services supporting individuals facing SMD can use it to identify when learning disability might be a relevant issue for somebody they support. They can use it to help them make appropriate reasonable adjustments, which might include assisted communication, support with activities of daily living, or support to develop social or practical skills. This toolkit offers a starting point in working towards good practice in supporting people with a learning disability, and signposts to further information and resources. Service managers may also use the toolkit to increase awareness of learning disability generally and inform service processes. (Edited publisher abstract)
Delivering high quality end of life care for people who have a learning disability: resources and tips for commissioners, service providers and health and social care staff
- Authors:
- NHS ENGLAND, PALLIATIVE CARE FOR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
- Publisher:
- NHS England
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 57
- Place of publication:
- Redditch
This ‘top tips’ guide aims to support commissioners, providers and clinicians to reduce inequalities in palliative and end of life for people with a learning disability, focusing on ‘The Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care’. These six ambitions, which provide a framework for national and local health and care system leaders to take action to improve palliative and end of life care, are: Each person is seen as an individual; Each person gets fair access to care; Maximising comfort and wellbeing; Care is coordinated; All staff are prepared to care; Each community is prepared to help. This document sets how to achieve each ambition, signposts relevant tools and resources and provides good practice examples. (Edited publisher abstract)
Learning disabilities: good practice project
- Authors:
- HOUGH Jo, MARTIN Kerry
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 57
- Place of publication:
- London
This report gives people who commission, design and deliver services a better understanding of how to improve the lives of people with learning disabilities. It is partly based on these good practice indicators: co-production; a capabilities approach to disability; community capacity building; a move towards more integrated services; and a commitment to personalisation. It presents six examples of good practice: Public Health Norfolk & Equal Lives (formerly Norfolk Coalition of Disabled People) and its provision of easy-to-access information on local health services; the Quality Checking project in Gloucestershire; London Borough of Hackney and Advance Support and supported living for people with complex needs; MacIntyre Care in Oxfordshire, representative of transition support for young people with complex needs; the Open University’s Social History of Learning Disability Group on sharing life stories; and Merseycare NHS Rebuild Service, which offers support for people with Down’s Syndrome and early onset dementia. It gives briefer details for other shortlisted projects. The report also includes an EasyRead summary. The project was completed under an action from ‘Transforming Care: A national response to Winterbourne View Hospital’. (Original abstract)
Making written information easier to understand for people with learning disabilities: guidance for people who commission or produce easy read information: revised edition 2010
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 37p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
Good practice guidance on commissioning and preparing easy read information for people with learning disabilities. Main areas covered include: defining easy read, commissioning material, and involving people with learning disabilities. Short case study examples are included. An additional section briefly covers other formats, such as audio, video/DVD, or interactive CD-ROMs or webpages. Annexes cover: Guidelines for producing Easy Read; Supplementary guidelines for professional typesetting and printing. The document is primarily at local and national public sector organisations who produce public information specifically for people with learning disabilities.
Good practice in learning disability nursing
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 63p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This document provides good practice guidance to support learning disability nursing to make a major contribution to the health and well-being of people with a learning disability in the future.
Easy guide to the Human Rights Act 1998
- Authors:
- HUGHES Andrea, COOMBS Phil
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 22p.,poster.
- Place of publication:
- Kidderminster
Outlines the key elements of the Human Rights Act 1998 and shows how they can be applied to daily life, with specific reference to people with learning difficulties. The guide includes real life stories and examples to illustrate various abuses of human rights, as well as suggestions for good practice and contact details for further information.
Supporting people with a mental handicap in ordinary housing - a good practice guide
- Authors:
- HEREFORD AND WORCESTER COUNTY COUNCIL. Joint Research, Information Unit
- Publisher:
- Hereford and Worcester Social Services Department. Joint Research and Informatio
- Publication year:
- 1986
- Pagination:
- 18p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Worcester
Decisions about technology: principles and guidance on good practice when considering the use of telecare and assistive technology for people with dementia, learning disability and related disorders
- Author:
- MENTAL WELFARE COMMISSION FOR SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 23
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This guidance is for those considering the use of technology to assist with care and maintain independence when the individual concerned may lack the capacity to make the decision. It examines the human right and legal implications of assistive technology and sets out key principles of good practice. These are: the intervention must provide a benefit that cannot otherwise be achieved; it must be the least restrictive in relation to the person’s freedom in order to achieve the desired benefit; the past and present wishes of the person must be taken into account; the views of relevant others should be taken into account; and the intervention should encourage the person to use existing skills and develop new ones. The document examines the use of electronic location devices and the use of CCTV to monitor the actions of an adult or of staff. A brief overview of assistive technology currently available is also included. (Edited publisher abstract)
Green light toolkit 2013: a guide to auditing and improving your mental health services so that it is effective in supporting people with autism and learning disabilities
- Author:
- NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TEAM FOR INCLUSION
- Publisher:
- National Development Team for Inclusion
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 76
- Place of publication:
- Bath
An earlier report by NDTi, ‘Reasonably adjusted’ (2012) described the reasonable adjustments mental health services were already putting in place for people with learning disabilities and people with autism. The NHS Confederation, supported by the Department of Health, commissioned the NDTi to develop and produce materials to help services review their own quality and share and replicate good practice. These are published as the Green Light Toolkit 2013, which comprise practical new materials designed to help improve the quality of mental health services for adults with learning disabilities and/or autism. The toolkit includes an audit framework to support reviews; an easy-read version of the audit framework and toolkit; and examples. (Edited publisher abstract)
Reasonably adjusted? Mental health services and support for people with autism and people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- BATES Peter, TURNER Sue, NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TEAM FOR INCLUSION
- Publisher:
- National Development Team for Inclusion
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 65
- Place of publication:
- Bath
The law requires mental health services to make reasonable adjustments so that they stop discriminating against people with autism or learning disabilities. ‘Reasonably adjusted?’ describes the reasonable adjustments mental health services have put in place for people with learning disabilities and people with autism. It is organised in three sections, starting with a summary of the context. The second section follows a care pathway from first contact with primary care services through referral to specialist help and on to discharge, reporting on the adjustments made by individuals and organisations that are trying to provide high quality services to people and their families The third section: ‘Effective services in a flourishing community’ begins with a broad view of active citizenship and follows an organisational pathway. ‘Reasonably adjusted?’ offers practical examples and includes an easy ready summary. Its content forms the basis of a subsequent NDTi publication, ‘The green light toolkit’ (2013). (Edited publisher abstract)