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Adults with learning disabilities and the criminal justice system: their rights and our responsibilities: report of a summit held in Glasgow on 27 October 2008
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Government
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Government
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 35p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
In April 2008, the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland reported on the case of a woman with a learning disability who was repeatedly sexually abused over many years. Although some of these offences were reported to the police, no one was prosecuted, in part because the complainer was judged not to be a competent witness. The Commission’s report Justice Denied concluded that the woman, known as Ms A, was effectively denied justice, and raised the possibility that this case was not an isolated example. In response to the report, the Scottish Government is taking the recommendations into account to ensure that the justice system continues to improve the protection and support for victims and witnesses with learning disabilities. This summit was organised jointly by the Health and Justice Directorates of the Scottish Government, the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) and the Law Society of Scotland, with assistance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Representatives from NHS Scotland, prosecutors, social work, police, the legal profession and voluntary organisations were brought together to consider the best way forward. People with learning disabilities played a prominent part in the day’s proceedings.
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.
The review of the all Wales strategy: a view from the carers; a report on a postal survey of 650 parents and other family carers
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Welsh Office
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Welsh Office
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 73p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Six lives: progress report on healthcare for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 85
- Place of publication:
- London
This report charts the progress that has been made in healthcare for people with a learning disability since 2010. It is the second of two progress reports that the Department has published since the original Six Lives report, published in 2009, which investigated the deaths of six people with learning disabilities. It includes the personal perspectives of people with learning disabilities and their families and an easy read summary. (Edited publisher abstract)
Learning disability in Wales: a technical document produced by a panel considering people centred issues
- Author:
- CROWSON David (chair)
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Welsh Office. NHS Directorate. Welsh Health Planning Forum
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 43p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Learning disability: Improving Lives programme
- Author:
- WALES. Welsh Government
- Publisher:
- Welsh Government
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 22
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This review was set up to better understand whether people with a learning disability in Wales have what they need to lead successful lives and to examine how services could be strengthened. It involved a desk top review of information and meetings with over 2,000 people, including people with a learning disability, parents and carers. The review took a life course approach and maps key issues, risk and protective factors for: Early years, Adolescence, Early adulthood, Mid life and Later life. The recommendations are focused on the Prosperity for All five cross cutting themes of: early years, housing, social care, health, and education and employment. The findings from the experts by experience are that there are pockets of good practice and strong services, however, too many have to fight for support to enable them to have an ordinary life. The three priorities of the recommendations are: to reduce health inequalities, improve community integration, and to enable improved strategic and operational planning and access to services. (Edited publisher abstract)
The Special Educational Needs and Disability Pathfinder Programme evaluation: final impact research report
- Authors:
- THOM Graham, et al
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Education
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 238
- Place of publication:
- London
The final report from the evaluation of the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) pathfinder programme. The programme, which was established in 2011 to explore how to reform the statutory SEN assessment and statement framework, involved the development and delivery of alternative approaches that could enhance or replace the existing system. Each Pathfinder was tasked to develop and trial an assessment process; a single, joined up EHC plan; and personal budgets across education, social care and health, and adult services as appropriate for children and young people from birth to 25 years. This report covers the second 18 months of the pathfinder programme, ending in September 2014, and looks at its effect on: families’ satisfaction with the systems and processes in place to obtain support for their child; families’ views about the amount and quality of support available to them; families’ views about their own and their child’s health and wellbeing; and the cost of the assessment and planning processes for obtaining SEND support. The data suggest that the process has improved for families, often in ways that are incremental but still statistically significant. Despite the improvement around the process, however, there was no statistical change in the extent to which families thought the decisions reached were fair. The family survey found little evidence of significant improvements in parental outcomes or in either children’s health or quality of life. (Edited publisher abstract)
Care services for people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour: fifty-first report of session 2014-15: report, together with formal minutes relating to the report
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts
- Publisher:
- TSO
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 20
- Place of publication:
- London
Examines progress made in fulfilling the government commitment, following the Winterbourne View scandal in 2011, to discharging inpatients with learning difficulties and challenging behaviour back to their homes and communities. The inquiry found that the number of people with learning disabilities remaining in hospital has not fallen, and has been broadly stable at around 3,200. The report recognises the complexity of the task in designing and commissioning a model of community based care and welcomes the commitment to set out, within the next six months, a closure programme for large mental health hospitals, and to provide a transition plan for people within these hospitals, from 2016–17. The report recommends that proper consideration be given not just to building capacity in the community, but also to enshrining in law patients’, and their families’, right to challenge the decisions taken, whether they are about treatment, admission to mental health hospital, or community care services provided. (Edited publisher abstract)
Multi-agency inspection of services for people with learning disabilities in Ayrshire
- Author:
- SOCIAL WORK INSPECTION AGENCY
- Publisher:
- Social Work Inspection Agency
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 182p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
A report of the pilot multi-agency inspection of services for people with learning disabilities in Ayrshire that took place between February and June 2006 is presented. A multi-agency inspection model for services for people with learning disabilities was developed. A consultation event about the model was held and people’s comments were taken into account. A number of people with learning disabilities and family carers attended the event. The model was specifically designed for multi-agency inspections of learning disability services and is congruent with the SWIA performance inspection model and HMIe’s performance inspection model. The report covers enabling and sustaining independence, promoting inclusion, meeting health needs, safety and protection, record keeping and communication, meeting staff needs, developing partnership working, leadership and direction, financial resource and information management, and capacity for improvement. Recommendations are presented.
Looking at day services in Dorset: recreation and leisure
- Authors:
- SHEPHERD Andrew, WRIGHT Fiona
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate. South and Wes
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 7p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Report from two people with learning difficulties who were involved in an inspection of day services in the Dorset area.