what are the care standards in  use by the  social services for people with a
learning disability ?

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Request for Question Clarification by leli-ga on 02 Nov 2002 10:17 PST

Do you mean the care standards regulated by the National Care
Standards Commission? If so, these mostly deal with people in
residential care or special schools. Is that what you're interested
in?

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Clarification of Question by agale-ga on 03 Nov 2002 03:00 PST

yes. I do mean the standards  to be maintained in the residential care
setting.Thank you.

Hello agale

The new Care Standards Act doesn't actually put learning disability in
a separate category of its own. All care homes, including those for
people with a learning disability, are expected to meet the standards
set out in these two documents:

Care Homes for Younger Adults and Adult Placements
Care Homes for Older People 

These "regulations and standards form the basis of the new regulatory
framework under the Care Standards Act (2000) for the conduct of care
homes".

'Residential Special Schools' is another detailed document which is
important if you are interested in children or teenagers with a
learning disability.

All these documents can be downloaded either from the:

National Care Standards Commission
http://www.carestandards.org.uk/nation+min.+standards/default.htm

or the Department of Health
http://www.doh.gov.uk/ncsc

You will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer
to read them. If you don't already have it, you can download it free
from:

Acrobat Reader download
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html).
 
You can also order print versions of the care standards documents
from:

TSO online bookstore
http://www.tso.co.uk/bookshop/bookstore.asp?

TSO also offers many other publications which might be of interest.

You might also find these articles useful. (Don't miss the links at
the end of each article.)

Q&A: The National Care Standards Commission
http://society.guardian.co.uk/regulatingsocialcare/story/0,8150,548318,00.html

'Revolutionary' Learning Disability White Paper Launched
http://society.guardian.co.uk/disabilityrights/story/0,7999,460180,00.html

I hope this is helpful. Please feel free to let me know if anything is
unclear by using the 'request clarification' option.

Regards - Leli

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