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Working with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people: people with physical disabilities: Doug's story
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Place of publication:
- London
In this film we meet Doug, a gay man with physical disabilities who is in residential accommodation eight miles away from his friends and family. Doug carefully considered when to ‘come out’ within residential care and explains that this is a continual process because of the high turnover of residential care staff.
Discrimination and insensitivity about Doug’s being ‘out’ to other residents and suggestions by his providers to ‘keep quiet’ around other residents are highlighted in the film. Doug feels he has little opportunity to meet other gay people, so he feels isolated and cut off from the gay community.
Doug believes that a cultural shift and change in attitudes in social care is vital in order to provide relevant care for LGBT people. He also feels that direct payments are only one part of a solution to offer more choice and control to the user of services.
Community care statistics 2008-09: social services activity report, England
- Author:
- NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE. Information Centre for Health and Social Care
- Publisher:
- National Health Service. Information Centre for Health and Social Care
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 78p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report collates data on the social care activity of Councils with Adult Social Services Responsibilities (CASSRs) in England. Information is drawn from two sources, the Referrals, Assessments and Packages of Care (RAP) and the new Adult Social Care Combined Activity Return (ASC-CAR). This report is new for 2008-09 and replaces a number of reports based on separate data collections that were published previously. The data is reported under the following headings: access to care; packages of care; community based services; residential care; and carers. An estimated 2.04 million contacts from new clients were made to CASSRs in England in 2008-09, down 1% from the previous year. There were an estimated 1.78 million clients receiving services, a slight increase from 2007-08. Overall 1.54 million clients were receiving home care of various kinds. Most services were received by clients with physical disabilities, frailty or sensory impairment (72%) the remaining 18% had mental heath problems; 86,000 adults aged over 18 received direct payments. Since 2003 there has been a steady decline in the number of residents supported in care homes; 229,000 in 2008-09. During the year 398,000 carers received a carer’s assessment or review.