Five Things to Learn from Panorama’s Dementia Exposé
OK, this is a longer blog than usual, but Monday night’s Panorama programme about an elderly lady with dementia being abused and neglected in a care home made me angry
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A Personal Tribute to Jim Mansell
Professor Jim Mansell, architect of significant elements of learning disability policy in England, founder of the Tizard Centre at Kent University and champion of individualised, evidence based services for people with the most complex needs, lost his battle with cancer on March 13th.
Maslow and the Health Select Committee
The Health Select Committee has created headlines today by pronouncing that the energy, attention and demands of the Health Bill (and the associated changes that are already being implemented prior to the passage of the Bill into law), are damaging the NHS’s ability to get on with the job of delivering high quality, cost effective healthcare
Employment Support for Disabled People
The National Development Team for Inclusion have been granted funding from the National Institute for Health Research‟s School of Social Care Research (SSCR) to carry out a two year study into the cost effectiveness of different models of employment support for disabled people, including those with mental health problems.
Preparing for Adulthood programme Launch
Despite often having the same aspirations as their peers, young disabled people are less likely to achieve paid employment, independent living, good health and community inclusion as they move into adulthood.
Feeling Settled Guide Launched
Feeling Settled is a new guide to changing a residential care home for people with learning disabilities into a supported living service, where people are choosing to stay in the same place.
New Guide Launched to Help Improve Commissioning of Services for People Labelled 'Challenging'
A new guide has been launched today by the National Development team for Inclusion (NDTi) to help commissioners to implement Government policy on how to commission cost- and outcome-effective services for people with learning disabilities described as 'challenging'.
People with Learning Disabilities Still Lack Security, Choice and Control in Housing
Two new reports have been published today by the National Development team for Inclusion (NDTi) to help address the problem of people with learning disabilities not getting equal access to housing or having their housing rights respected.