September 2014

This special report takes a practice-focussed approach to assistive technology and discusses the evidence - and the challenges - emerging from a series of evaluations that have attempted to identify, and quantify, the results of real, local…
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A short film produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence. This film shows how people whose behaviour is described as challenging can be supported to live independently.
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This document sets out plans for more proactive, personalised and joined up care, including the Proactive Care Programme, providing the 800,000 patients with the most complex health and care needs with:a personal care and support plan a…
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In this Special Report, Alex O’Neil reflects on some fundamental questions about the future of social care. He uses the extensive work that the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has undertaken to look particularly at the lessons we have learned…
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This guidance is designed to support organisations currently delivering peer support or planning to develop peer support for people with long term conditions. It brings together good practice and guidance, based on research evidence as well…
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A short film produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence. This film shows how services and outcomes can be improved for people with challenging behaviour and learning disabilities. This can be done through more informed working…
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The aims of this evaluation toolkit are to enable providers to:understand which values, knowledge and skills need to be in place to support people as they grow older so that their lives are as happy, healthy and fulfilling as…
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Just 5% of schools are confident that teaching assistants (TAs) are sufficiently well-informed about the support they need to provide pupils with special educational needs (SEN), Mencap has revealed.
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The government has been heavily criticised by learning disability charity Mencap for its lack of progress in tackling the health inequalities that people with learning disabilities face.
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Disability charity United Response has published a special edition of its accessible news magazine Easy News summarising the results of the Scottish Referendum.
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