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.
Mail online: Labour grandee Harriet Harman blasts the sectioning of autistic patients in NHS-funded psychiatric units
Harriet Harman is leading a chorus of alarm from MPs over the scandal of youngsters with autism who are locked up like criminals in NHS-funded psychiatric units.
LDToday: SEND services face crisis
Special educational needs children services faces potential deficit of £536
“We face a looming crisis in meeting the unprecedented rise in demand for support from children with special educational needs and disabilities. Parents rightly expect and aspire to see that their child has the best possible education and receives the best possible support.”
