Rqia

The 2006 Quality Standards for Health and Social Care should be amended to require HSC organisations to provide all people with learning disabilities, and if they lack capacity, their family …

RQIA should examine the provider organisation’s internal assurance processes and make recommendations where they are insufficient.

Use of seclusion should be considered an extraordinary and exceptional intervention. Each intervention should be subject to a serious event audit, conducted by a professional outside the service provider’s learning …

Policies should be clear about the circumstances in which a regulator, such as RQIA, could access the CCTV.

RQIA should consider developing a risk-based way of predicting which services are in difficulty. It is well known that certain aspects of services tend to be associated with abuse: service …

The RQIA needs to reconsider whether to make use of CCTV when it is in operation in a service it is inspecting where concerns have been raised.

RQIA needs to consider adopting a measure of service culture specific to learning disability services for use in its inspections. Such measures have already been developed for learning disability residential …

RQIA needs to spend proportionately more time talking to patients/residents, and its staff need to be trained in specific communication techniques such as Makaton and Talking Mats.

Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority ('RQIA') should review overall compliance and consideration should be given to granting it the power to prosecute in cases of serial non-compliance or serious and …

The Department should expand both the remit and resources of the RQIA in order that it might (i) maintain oversight of the SAI process (ii) be strengthened in its capacity …