This summary contains the findings, conclusions and recommendations of the King's Fund Care and Support Inquiry into the quality of services for people needing care and support. The inquiry was commissioned to examine whether the government's reforms of care service regulation would produce meaningful results and to explore which additional ...
This inquiry concludes that care and support for older and disabled people could collapse unless the Government allocates at least £700 million extra to social services each year. It shows that Britain's estimated one million care and support workers exist on low pay, with poor training, inadequate support from their ...
People with learning difficulties and very high support needs are at the forefront of service providers and commissioners' thinking. However, there are presently few solutions to providing them with opportunities. "Unlocking the future" explores ways in which services need to change to provide this group of people with lifestyles based ...
This discussion paper has been developed following a seminar held at the King's Fund in October 1997 when leaders in the field of symbol development and use came together to consider progress in this debate and what the next steps might be. The first section presents an overview of the ...
This new edition of the Health Quality Service accreditation programme has been extensively revised and updated to reflect government health policy and guidance in the various parts of the United Kingdom as well as taking account of changes and developments in quality assurance and improvement programmes nationally and internationally. These ...
This book is an easy to use handbook and CD to help men and women with learning difficulties have better day opportunities. It is about working with services, families and other supporters to help people to get paid jobs, do courses at college and get certificates, make more friends, have ...
This second study from the Changing Days project is a practical guide on how best to achieve the integration of adults with learning difficulties into the community. It builds on the vision set out in the first book, Changing Days, and reflects the experience of working in five sites around ...
This bulletin gives a brief progress report on the work of Changing Days. Much of its contents will be written up in more detail in a book to be launched in 1998.
The aim of this book is to help more people with learning difficulties get involved in evaluating their own services. It has been written for people with learning difficulties and for supporters and staff who work closely with them, and is based on a meeting held at the King's Fund ...