Care services for people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour

"This report examines the challenge faced in delivering key commitments in the Winterbourne View Concordat, the extent to which these have been achieved, and the barriers to transforming care services for people with learning disabilities."

Care services for people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour
National Audit Office
February 2015

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Reducing the need for restrictive care

"The aim is to provide a framework within which adult health and social care services can develop a culture where restrictive interventions are only ever used as a last resort and only then for the shortest possible time."

Positive and proactive care: reducing the need for restrictive interventions (summary of key actions)
Department of Health
April 2014

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Auditing and improving your mental health services

"A guide to auditing and improving your mental health services so that it is effective in supporting people with autism and people with learning disabilities."

Green Light Toolkit
Department of Health, Mental Health Network NHS Confederation, National Development Team for inclusion
November 2013

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Learning disabilities: good practice project

"The project is all about finding places where services for people with learning disabilities are very good. It aims to get people talking to each other to make services better."

Learning disabilities: good practice project
J Hough, K Martin
Department of Health
November 2013

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Improving the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities

"Commissioning services for people with learning disabilities is a substantial test of working together in effective partnerships and, through this, securing better health and support for local people while safeguarding this most vulnerable group of our population."

Improving the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities: an evidence-based commissioning guide for Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs)
Improving Health and Lives: Learning Disabilities Observatory
October 2012

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