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Individual planning with adults who have learning difficulties: key issues - key sources
- Author:
- GREASLEY Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 10(3), September 1995, pp.353-363.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
For many people with learning difficulties the quality of individual assessment and planning can play a crucial role in their personal development. This article aims, to provide a brief overview of the key issues and key sources of information in the field of individual planning. A number of issues relating to the implementation of Individual Programme Plans are discussed. Particular attention is paid to the development of more recent approaches, such as Personal Futures Planning, which aim to place greater emphasis on self-advocacy and the involvement of 'non-service providers' in assessment and planning.
Shaping the future together: a strategic planning tool for services supporting people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- COLE Angela, LLOYD Ann
- Publisher:
- Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 137p., CD ROM
- Place of publication:
- London
The Department of Health grant provided funding to look at how to aggregate the hopes, needs, and wishes of people involved in Person Centred Planning and how to use this evidence to improve services. A process and database have been developed to receive information from Person Centred Planning plans. This pack provides information and engages managers and commissioners in implementing improvements in individual and collective service delivery. It helps to build a blue print for the future shape of service by collating an evidence base. The evidence base consists of detailed information about people’s needs and aspirations that have been collected from person centred plans.
Planning for change? Learning disability joint investment plans and implementing the Valuing People White Paper
- Authors:
- WARD Linda, FYSON Rachel, WATSON Debby
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Integrated Care, 12(3), June 2004, pp.11-19.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Valuing People outlined ambitious plans for improving services for people with learning disabilities in England. Strategies to realise these goals were to be taken forward through the new structure of learning disability partnership boards, based in the first instance on local joint investment plans (JIPs). Reports findings from an analysis of the first round of learning disability JIPs compiled as the implementation of the White Paper began, and reviews the implications for the development of robust local strategies and action plans.
Case registers, trends and commissioning
- Author:
- RUSSELL Oliver
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 6(3), July 2001, pp.14-17.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Case registers have been around for over 30 years but have had a disappointingly small impact on service planning. Comments on the Leicestershire Learning Disability Register and the lessons that can be learned. Argues that commissioners and providers should take note of the future trends in prevalence which emerge from the study.
Strategic commissioning of accommodation services for adults with learning disabilities
- Author:
- AUDITOR GENERAL FOR WALES
- Publisher:
- Wales Audit Office
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 62
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This review assesses whether local authorities in Wales have effective approaches to commissioning accommodation for adults with learning disabilities. It included audit fieldwork at five local authorities; analysis of performance and expenditure; and modelling future growth and costs. Based on the findings, the review found that local authorities are generally meeting the accommodation needs of adults with learning disabilities, but existing commissioning arrangements are unlikely to be fit for purpose in the future. It reports that local authorities are underestimating the complexity in meeting the long-term accommodation needs of people with learning disabilities and their carers and need to do more to integrate the services. It also found that commissioning strategies do not always result in cost effective services that meet people's needs. The report estimates that authorities will need to increase investment by £365 million in accommodation in the next twenty years to address a growth in the number of people with learning disabilities who will need housing and the increase in the number with moderate or severe needs. The report makes recommendations to local authorities, in six key areas, including: to continue to focus on prevention by providing effective support at home and a range of step up accommodation; to improve the approach to planning services for the future, and to do more to involve people with learning disabilities and their carers in care planning and agreeing pathways to further independence. (Edited publisher abstract)
Parental caregivers' desires for lifetime assistance planning for future supports for their children with intellectual and developmental disabilities
- Authors:
- HEWITT Amy, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Family Social Work, 13(5), October 2010, pp.420-434.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article introduces a new model of future planning designed for parents of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) called Lifetime Assistance and presents findings from a study examining the future planning needs of parents of children with IDD and their willingness to pay for a service such as Lifetime Assistance. The Lifetime Assistance model combines planning for financial and personal well-being with the use of a paid, designated lifetime assistant called a Quality-of-Life Specialist. These specialists help families of people with IDD plan for the future as well as monitor the quality of life and well-being of an individual when their family members are no longer able to provide care and, as such, become substitute advocates. Using surveys informed by four focus groups, data were gathered from 244 parents, mainly mothers, in a Midwestern US state regarding the potential program. The family member was usually younger than 21, with moderate mental retardation or other developmental disabilities. Respondents generally reported low levels of satisfaction with the current system of support. Although almost all families had identified a person to support their family members when they were no longer able to do so, a great majority of parental caregivers identified the need for the Lifetime Assistance program and many were willing to pay for this service themselves. Implications of the findings for practice are discussed.
Housing for adults with a learning disability
- Authors:
- GORFIN Laura, McGLAUGHLIN Alex
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 6(3), August 2003, pp.4-8.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Discusses the findings of a project which aimed to involve adults with a learning disability in service planning , by asking them to identify their own needs and preferences in relation to housing.
Planning care for children in respite settings: hello, this me
- Authors:
- LAVERTY Helen, REET Mary
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 171p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This book offers an approach to planning respite care provision for disabled children and children with learning difficulties, based on the child's abilities and needs. The model set out in this book, the "Hello, this is me model" provides a method of assessing and planning care for children with a variety of special needs. Throughout the book an emphasis is placed on partnership between families and carers that enables children and their parents to make their wishes known when planning respite care so that the unique needs of each child can be met.
Benefit groups and resource groups for adults with intellectual disabilities in residential accommodation
- Authors:
- COMAS-HERRERA Adelina, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 14(2), 2001, pp.120-140.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Examines whether 'benefit groups' and 'resource groups' can be developed so as to assist decision-making processes in service commissioning by using a survey of the characteristics of 2093 adults with intellectual disabilities (IDs) in residential accommodation (mainly National Health Service trusts), and a supplementary collection of data on service utilization and costs (for a subsample of 930 clients). The clients were classified, according to their needs into benefit groups (BGs), and the services which they used were classified in terms of coherence as likely packages of care and similar consumption of resources as resource groups (RGs). It proved possible to construct nine BGs and 96 possible RGs which had both intuitive meaning and explanatory power. Statistical analysis showed that the resulting BGs and RGs are meaningful ways of classifying ID and challenging behaviour needs and costs.
A matter of choice
- Author:
- HAWKER Maurice
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 6(3), March 2000, pp.16-19.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
The author describes his recent study into housing and support needs of people with learning disabilities and the steps local authorities need to take to widen the choice and supply of suitable accommodation. Argues that local profiles of need, information on urgent case and priorities, maps of existing services and aims for the future are essential for proper planning.