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Housing choices discussion paper 3: characteristics of housing and support options: inclusion, rights, choice and control
- Authors:
- HARFLETT Naomi, et al
- Publisher:
- National Development Team for Inclusion
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 12
- Place of publication:
- Bath
This paper sets out the different characteristics of housing and support options in terms of the level of choice, control, rights and inclusion they offer to people with care or support needs. Using the housing and support categories identified in the typology in briefing paper 2, the paper uses a table to show what each of the options offer. Characteristics cover: choice over who to live with, choice in relation to nature and level of support, choice over who supports, control over what happens in the home, own front door, security of tenure, rights to full welfare benefits, CQC regulated, community location, sole or shared ownership, and which client groups the housing caters for. The discussion paper aims to stimulate feedback and comments which will be used to inform a final position paper. It focuses specifically on housing and support available for older people, people with learning disabilities and people with mental health problems (Edited publisher abstract)
No voice unheard, no right ignored: a consultation for people with learning disabilities, autism and mental health conditions
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 80
- Place of publication:
- London
This consultation seeks to explore views on a range of proposals, whose scope primarily covers: the assessment and treatment in mental health hospitals for people with learning disability or autism; adult care and support, primarily for those with learning disability but also for adults with autism (and the links to support for children and young people); and all those to whom the Mental Health Act currently applies (including children and young people). The proposals are intended to establish and strengthen key rights and choice options, including: the right for people with learning disabilities, autism and mental health conditions to be independent, to be part of a community and to live in a home of their choice; the right to be listened to, to have their wishes acted upon and the right to challenge decisions about them; their rights under the Mental Health Act; the right to control their support and services with a personal budget and the right to benefit from integrated health and social care; and access to better information about who is responsible for supporting their physical as well as their mental health. The consultation closes on 29 May 2015. (Edited publisher abstract)
Interim guidance: implementing patients’ right to choose any clinically appropriate provider of mental health services
- Author:
- NHS ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- NHS England
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 41
- Place of publication:
- London
This interim guidance has been produced to help commissioners, GPs, and providers support patients' right to choose their providers of mental health services following their first referral an outpatient appointment (a legal right from 1 April 2014). This includes the right to choose from any provider which has a contract with any clinical commissioning group (CCG), not only the CCG responsible for that patient. The guidance outlines the types of mental health conditions and services subject to the right to choice and those excluded from the right to choice. Separate sections contain information for commissioners, GPs and providers. The guidance has been developed with input from commissioners, providers and GPs and other stakeholders. The interim guidance is open to consultation until 15 August 2014, after which the final version will be published. (Original abstract)
Policy implementation in England: developments to meet the mental health needs of people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- CHAPLIN Eddie, O'HARA Jean
- Journal article citation:
- Advances in Mental Health and Learning Disabilities, 1(1), March 2007, pp.7-12.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article looks at current initiatives to improve mental health care for people with learning disabilities from around England and places them within a policy context. It highlights the areas that still fail to provide a basic care standard, some of which have been reported throughout the media from recent investigations. Where this is the case, the authors outline the response and actions that have been put in place to address these issues. The article focuses on the areas of 'rights', 'inclusion', 'choice' and 'independence'. They argue that there now needs to be cooperation between services that traditionally have not worked together for the benefit of this client group. The traditional views and values of service provides and commissioners will need to be challenged and tuned to the needs of this group of people.