This paper describes innovatory schemes and progress in bringing children with learning difficulties out of hospital. At the conference, Barnardo's N.W. Division presented information about their professional fostering scheme, followed by Portsmouth and S.E. Hampshire Health Authority's provision of alternative accommodation in the community for mentally handicapped children. A dehospitalisation ...
This study was commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Security and the King's Fund Centre to provide an independent account of alternatives to hospital care for children with learning difficulties who need long-term residential care. The report draws on examples from health and social services authorities and discusses ...