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Home grown solution
- Author:
- WILLIAMS Caroline
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 03.11.05, 2005, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Assertive outreach provides community-based mental health care to people who are severely disabled by their mental illness and fail to engage with services. Assertive outreach started in the US and its adaptation in the UK is a cause of some debate in the field. Adult placement services provided by non-statutory agencies provide an alternative to a catch-all AO solution to recovery. This article discusses the experience of a brokerage partnership between AO and adult placement and provides some implications for practice and research. It looks at how Knowsley's assertive outreach team has enhanced its capabilities by using a charity's adult placement scheme as an adjunct to its efforts.
Characteristics of people providing family placements to adult persons with intellectual disabilities
- Authors:
- McCONKEY Roy, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 33(3), September 2005, pp.132-137.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This study examines the characteristics of 30 placement providers in two schemes operating in Northern Ireland. Information was obtained through individual interviews on their characteristics, their reasons for becoming involved and what they get out of their involvement. All but one were female; two-thirds were aged 50 plus and just over one-third were in employment. The majority of providers have been recruited from the care sector and many had experience of people with intellectual disabilities. Most had come into the schemes because of their personal interest in this client group. No one came solely as a result of seeing an advertisement and only one person explicitly mentioned the financial reimbursement. Over half had been involved for 3 years and more. All felt they gained a great deal of satisfaction and enjoyment from their involvement but stressed the amount of commitment needed to become a provider. The placement providers overall were very satisfied with the way the schemes operated. The main complaint appeared to be in regard to the low payments. Proposals are made for the future development of family placement schemes particularly in the recruitment of providers.
Experiment, take risks and think outside the box
- Author:
- LEWIS Sara
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, August 2005, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
The author discusses the latest reports from the Social Care Institute for Excellence, focusing on direct payments, adult placements and adult-centred approaches, which build on studies carried out among local authorities and recipients of direct payments.
'Out of area, out of sight?': review of out of area placement arrangements made by social services and health for people with learning disabilities from the West Midlands
- Authors:
- RITCHIE Fiona, et al
- Publisher:
- Birmingham and the Black Country Strategic Health Authority; West Midlands South Strategic Health Authority
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 84p.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
People with learning disabilities have a different pattern of disease from the general population and high health needs that are frequently unidentified and unmet. Many require responses from general and specialist health services. A picture is emerging of some people with learning disabilities, often with complex care needs, moving from their home area on what is being termed, out-of-area placements, to receive specialist care. However, within the learning disability population, the impact on health services is not fully known.
A national survey of adult placement schemes in England: recruitment and retention of adult placement carers
- Author:
- BERNARD Sylvia
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 13(6), November 2005, pp.563-569.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This study of adult placement schemes in England aimed to provide baseline data about the workforce, care provision, qualification levels, training and support issues, and recruitment and retention problems. Questionnaires were sent to all known schemes in England in both statutory and independent sectors. A final database of 130 schemes was compiled and of these, 124 contributed to the survey with complete or partial information. Variables relating to carers, and recruitment and retention problems experienced by schemes were analysed in detail. Age, gender and ethnic profiles of AP carers were described. Anecdotal evidence had suggested that the current regulatory system was leading to a loss of adult placement carers and/or an increasingly unregulated sector. Results from analyses supported this as the major reason given by schemes for the problems they had experienced in the last 12 months. Estimates of both the current level of registration and the numbers of carers cancelling their registration in the previous 12 months were made. Recently agreed regulatory changes aim to shift the burden of regulation from individual carers to AP schemes, and thereby ensure a consistent standard of assessment, training and support across England. Evidence from the survey provided support for such a move.
A comparison of reports of caregiver burden between foster family care providers and staff caregivers in other settings: a pilot study
- Authors:
- MCCALLION Philip, NICKLE Tara, McCARRON Mary
- Journal article citation:
- Dementia: the International Journal of Social Research and Practice, 4(3), August 2005, pp.401-412.
- Publisher:
- Sage
There has been increasing concern about the impact of dementia symptoms on the lives and on the care being provided for persons with intellectual disability (ID) in out-of-home settings. One such setting that has received little attention is foster family care homes. These settings in the USA replicate family living and while some supports and resources are provided, they are not designed to meet intensive care needs. As a preliminary step in understanding family experiences and to expand the range of interest in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in persons with ID beyond traditional out-of-home settings, a pilot study was initiated that included aging persons with ID and symptoms of AD who were living in foster family care settings in two regions of New York State as well as more traditional out-of-home care subjects. Comparisons of matched samples on subjective and objective burden measures suggest that there are few differences in experiences. The limitations of these findings are considered and recommendations made for future, related research.
Adult placements and person-centred approaches
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Place of publication:
- London
This web-based practice guide is aimed at local authority and health commissioners, practitioners, service users, adult placement scheme staff and carers in England. The guide is based on information from a practice survey that identified emerging and developing practice; a literature review that pulled together the key literature on adult placements; and an analytical report that identified the key messages from these two surveys. It identifies relevant national minimum standards, and highlights findings and case examples from the practice survey, as well as from the literature where available. The Guide contains practice points, including areas of conflict, on-going debate about roles and responsibilities, and the application of person-centred approaches to adult placements. It contains sections on: being person-centred, assessment and referral, matching and introductions, monitoring and review, moving on, adult placement carers, advocacy; and person-centred planning. (Previously published as SCIE Practice Guide no. 4).