Category: learning disability
Mencap Treat Me Well- Medway events 2019
Mencap Treat Me Well- Brighton events for 2019
United Response: Foundations of good support resource
The Foundations of Good Support is a step by step guide to assessing the quality of support being provided for people with learning disabilities and/or autism, and identifying what might need changing in order to improve it.
Good support is dependent not on approaches or tools, but on their results, the observable benefits for the person we support. Experience has shown that when trying to judge how good support is, and what to do to improve it, the best understanding of the effectiveness of support comes from seeing these results across a series of linked levels.
RCNi: Transference: supporting and safeguarding people with learning disabilities who are vulnerable to exploitation
Transference is a form of ignoring reality by placing one’s wishes on to another person – and service users can be particularly susceptible to this type of encounter.
