Support individuals to access and use services and facilities
Watch ‘What is independence and support? Made by people with learning disabilities &/or autism’ produced by Twisting Ducks.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- ‘Social care and support guide produced by the NHS
- ‘Looking after people’ by Citizens Advice
- ‘Our work’ webpage on the Thistle Foundation website
- ‘The support older people want and the services they need’ by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- ‘Barriers’ webpage on the Health, Social Care and Children’s Services website
- ‘LEAP for health’ by NHS Health Scotland
- Presentation
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click the link to access an article called ‘Disabilities and health: Healthy living’ which was produced by the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. Read the article and look at the other sections, links and the short video. Consider if there is any areas of good practice that you could bring into your setting.
- Click the link to access the Government website and read a summary of the rights of disabled people. Read the article, thinking of the activities that you undertake in your day-to-day life, and consider how your access to these activities could be restricted if you needed care. For each restriction, consider the laws that may be relevant for ensuring your rights.
- Click to read ‘Carers’ checklist: An outcome measure for people with dementia and their carers’.
- Think And Challenge
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