Focus group study of involvement of people with learning disabilities finds...
Effective and meaningful engagement and involvement of people with learning disabilities in the services and support they receive is at the heart of current policy, with considerable effort being put...
View ArticleService user consultation strengthens challenging behaviour strategy
A key component in any strategic service development is the consultation to seek the views of service users. This can prove problematic when consulting with people with learning disabilities, but a...
View ArticleActively involving students with learning disabilities provides an effective...
Given the emphasis in education on inclusion in mainstream schools and colleges for young people with additional needs, this project set out to enable young people with learning difficulties in three...
View ArticleInvolve Me: Increasing the involvement of people with profound and multiple...
People with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) are some of the most excluded in society. The recent guidance from the Department of Health (Raising our sights) suggested that services...
View ArticleInvolving people with learning disabilities in a secure service in risk...
A keystone of policy relating to the support of people with learning disabilities in England is the involvement of service users in planning and delivering their support. This is also reflected in...
View ArticleA human rights approach to risk management balances individual rights within...
A number of recent inquiries have highlighted the concern that people with learning disabilities may on occasion be denied access to their basic human rights. The authors of this study set out to...
View ArticlePeople with learning disabilities experience physical interventions as...
Physical interventions are still widely used in learning disability services, with BILD estimating their use in around half of all people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour. The...
View ArticleOccupational Therapists gather feedback from people with learning...
Getting feedback about interventions from people with learning disabilities involves a number of challenges, including of course communication difficulties The researchers in this study were interested...
View ArticleCivil rights principles underpin the involvement of people with learning...
Involving people with learning disabilities in research that affects them is part of the tradition of engaging with communities to ensure that there is ‘nothing about us without us’ – a key plank of...
View ArticleGood practice projects in supporting people with learning disabilities...
Background What is good practice when supporting people with learning disabilities? This is the question that was raised following the publication of the Government’s interim report into the events at...
View ArticleCQC still concerned about lack of understanding of Mental Capacity Act and...
Background Last week, we posted about the BIDs research, which provided a great deal of insight into the current approach to making best interests decisions under the Mental Capacity Act (2005). The...
View ArticleExploration of views of resident in-patients with learning disabilities...
Background Offering choice to patients is at the heart of the NHS, supported by a set of legal rights (see the Choice Framework) and patient led assessments of care environments have been introduced...
View ArticleOutcome measure for psychological therapy for people with learning...
Background Since the publication of Positive Practice Guidance on access to psychological therapies there have been a number of studies looking at the barriers to such access and some of the approaches...
View ArticleExperience of involvement of people with learning disabilities in staff...
Background When asked to consider what makes life good for us, we might often think about the central place of choice – the choice of what we wear, what we eat, how we spend our time, the work we do –...
View ArticleGuide for CCGs on Personal Health Budgets for people with learning disabilities
Background Personal Health budgets were introduced to enable people with long term conditions and disabilities to have greater choice, flexibility and control over the health care and support they...
View ArticleOvercoming the barriers to self directed support for people with learning...
Self-directed support is described by InControl as an approach to social care which gives people optimum choice and control over their support arrangements. People with social care needs are offered...
View ArticleLearning Disability Self-Assessment Framework shows some progress, but still...
The publication of Valuing People Now in 2009 signalled a renewed focus on delivery of the key objectives of the 2001 White Paper. To reinforce this focus, the Government introduced two...
View ArticleHand held health records increased awareness of health issues but no evidence...
Health Action Planning was advocated in the 2001 White Paper and hospital passports are becoming accepted practice. But what impact are they having on outcomes for people with learning disabilities?...
View ArticleUsing actors with learning disabilities during training to improve doctors’...
Poor communication between people with learning disabilities, their carers and health professionals has been cited as an element of the explanation of health inequalities faced by people with learning...
View ArticleMeasuring the mediators: initiating, maintaining and interrupting...
Being engaged in our community at a level, with which we feel comfortable, could be a measure of the quality of our lives. But how do workers who support people with learning disabilities help them in...
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