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The adult day care workforce in England at a time of policy change: implications for learning disability support services
- Authors:
- HUSSEIN Shereen, MANTHORPE Jill
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 14(2), June 2010, pp.95-110.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Place of publication:
- London
More people will receive personal budgets to pay for social care services in England. Such people may or may not continue using services such as adult day care centres. Many day centres are under threat of closure. These trends will affect those working in adult day care. This article examines the profile of this workforce, using recent NMDS-SC data and applying multinomial statistical modelling. Using the data approximately 6000 adult day care workers were identified, over half supporting adults with learning disability. The results of the analysis show significant variations between the adult day care, residential care and domiciliary workforces. At the personal level, day care workers are significantly older and less ethnically diverse than other workers. They tend to have been working in the sector for longer, and their work patterns are more stable. The findings are discussed within the context of policy changes affecting learning disabilities and social care workforce strategies.
Pooling resources between health and social care
- Author:
- MANTHORPE Jill
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.3.10, 2010, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A recent study from the Audit Commission into joint working and financing between health and social care. 'Means to an end: joint financing across health and social care' is reviewed. The study drew on a literature review and a survey sent to auditors of all councils and primary care trusts in England in 2008. It was found that joint working between health and social care is current under utilised, inspite of the benefits it can bring to service users and in terms of cost savings.
Working on person-centred planning: from amber to green light?
- Authors:
- DOWLING Sandra, MANTHORPE Jill, COWLEY Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 11(1), March 2007, pp.65-82.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Place of publication:
- London
This article reviews the practice and policy based literature on person-centred planning in learning disability services in England. Its aim is to identify the implications for the workforce in practice. The analysis found that implementation is often described as partial or slow and characterizes reasons for this at a number of levels, including the slow pace of change in service culture and power relations, immutable funding structures, services’ inflexible infrastructures, high levels of staff turnover and lack of training, inexperience among service management, inadequate staff supervision, and ambiguity among some stakeholders. Little substantial critique exists of the model itself. Analysis of the literature further reveals that the implementation of person-centred planning in practice is assisted by policy encouragement, service development and investment, favourable case reports and personal accounts, practitioner enthusiasm and positive evaluations. This article explores these to consider what facilitates the adoption of new elements of practice.