Family Involvement

Care plans must be live, person-centred documents. This requires joint ownership with people with learning disabilities and their families rather than simply professional records. While professionals necessarily lead assessments, families …

Creating a co-produced care environment, where people with learning disabilities, families and professionals work collaboratively, requires a fundamental shift in practice. As well as organisational commitments, staff will need education …

Information about the use of cash and other property and six-monthly accounts (or such period as appropriate upon discharge of the person) should be available to the service user concerned …

Prior to the decision to move a service user to a different facility there must be discussion with the staff regularly caring for them, the relevant multidisciplinary team (MDT), the …

Families should be provided by the relevant Trust with a time frame for resettlement and relevant financial information. Families should also be afforded an appropriate amount of time to consider …