Good progress has been made by the Department of Health and NHS England in setting up a programme to close hospital beds for people with a learning disability, but the programme is not yet on track to achieve value for money. The report examines how the NHS in England and local authorities seek to improve the lives of the 129,000 people aged 18 to 64 who use local authority learning disability support services.
Author: Lisa Richardson
Multi-Agency Learning Review Following The Murder of Bijan Ebrahimi
Following the murder of Mr Bijan Ebrahimi in July 2013, Safer Bristol Executive Board decided to conduct a review of the management of circumstances leading to his death by all agencies and organisations involved in order to elicit any lessons that need to be learned. The review process was identified in order to employ a straightforward and un-bureaucratic approach to identifying the key points of learning for all the organisations involved and stimulate any necessary action with the minimum of delay.
This report examines agency and organisation responses and support given to Mr Bijan Ebrahimi, a resident of Brislington, Bristol, since arriving in the city and before his death. The objectives of this review are to examine the involvement and actions of individual organisations that had contact with Mr Ebrahimi before his death in order to extract learning, improve practice wherever necessary and prevent future incidents of this type.
NB. The review was originally completed in January 2014 but has been updated to reflect the findings of an investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission and associated representations made by members of Mr Ebrahimi’s family.
More local CoP meetings to get involved with
There are three further CoP meetings this month to get involved in:
Worthing
Wednesday 24th January,
2.30-4.30pm.
Training room, Swandean, Arundel
Road, Worthing, BN13 3EP.
Crawley
Tuesday 30 January
10-12pm.
Conference room 2, Langley Green
Hospital, Martyrs Avenue, Crawley,
RH11 7SE.
Leatherhead
Wednesday 31st January,
2-4pm
Meeting room A, 18 Mole business
park, Randalls Road, Leatherhead,
Surrey, KT22 7AD
and more to come in Feb too!
KSS local meetings flyer_ Easy readAccess All Areas: Madhouse- Re:exit production in 2018
Inspired by a refusal to be silent, and a history of being ignored, 5 learning disabled artists take us on a wondrous adventure underground.
A goddess, a baby, a bird, an eater and a ghost guide us through a maze-like institution, growling to be heard, and waiting for the revolution that is forever promised.
As they tear back the walls to their lives, past and present spin together in a powerful expression of what it feels like to have a learning disability today.
Over two years, MADHOUSE re:exit has built on the legacy of Mabel Cooper, a resident of a long-stay hospital for people with learning disabilities, who pressed the button that blew up one of the last of these institutions in the UK. Now, award winning theatre company Access All Areas return with a fantastical, disruptive, immersive experience that explores what this history means to people with learning disabilities today.
Developed with Barbican Centre, Shoreditch Town Hall, The Lowry, Battersea Arts Centre, Wellcome Trust, Arts Council England, and the Open University.
Equality and human rights helpline for advisers
Equality and human rights helpline for advisers
The Commission is providing a service for the advice sector, solicitors, other organisations that support individuals with their problems, trade unions, and ombudsman schemes.
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Experts at the Commission are available to help.
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