Daisy Bogg summarises a qualitative study of professional and client experiences of indirect payments under the Mental Capacity Act.
[read the full story...]Indirect Payments: when the MCA interacts with the personalisation agenda
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For: caregivers AND personalisation
Measuring the mediators: initiating, maintaining and interrupting interactions. How do support workers support social inclusion?
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 ways, which can achieve this? What helps and what gets in the way?
Here, in her debut blog, Paula Hopes looks at a naturalistic observation study that looked at this issue in more detail.
[read the full story...]Support worker attitudes a key influencer of outcomes for people with learning disabilities, but new scales needed to measure these
Although the research base is small, it does strongly suggest that the attitudes of support workers can be key influencers of outcomes for people with learning disabilities and this would seem to be an entirely reasonable assumption. Here, Louise Phillips looks at a study which set out to not only explore the attitudes of a number of support workers in one service, but also to consider whether existing attitude measurement scales capture the range of attitudes expressed.
[read the full story...]Equipping family carers with better information about in-patient assessment and treatment for people with learning disabilities
We know that access to accurate information is crucial if people are to make good decisions about the support they get from services. If someone with a learning disability is admitted to a hospital unit for assessment or treatment for a mental health issue or in response to behaviour that is challenging support services, this can be a particularly difficult and confusing time for all concerned.
In her debut blog, Alison Giraud-Saunders, along with co-author Angela Cole, describes a booklet that she co-authored with the involvement of family members which has lots of key information on the law and people’s rights.
[read the full story...]Driving Up Quality Code – One Year On and First Reports of Progress Published
One year on from the launch of the Driving Up Quality Code, we reflect on the first progress report of one of the Code’s early champions, Choice Support.
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