...Daisy Alicia Gibson; Holly Eick; Susanne Meddings; Ceri Woodrow Purpose This paper aims to examine the prevalence and reasons for delayed discharge from two regional assessment and treatment units (ATUs) for people with learning disabilities, in line with the transforming care agenda. Design...

... nearly ten years of the Transforming Care Agenda, there is still very little support for families in many areas, and in the areas where there is support, it will look very different depending on where people live. In areas where support is offered, Positive Behavioural Support (PBS) has often been...

...Magali Barnoux Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the existing evidence base regarding community services for people with learning disabilities in the context of transforming care (TC). Design/methodology/approach Reflections and commentary on the provision of community services...

... Senate, in line with the Transforming Care (TC) agenda. A secondary purpose of the study was to evaluate the reasons for admissions and delayed discharges in order to inform how to reduce these. Design/methodology/approach A retrospective evaluation of 85 admissions across two A&T units...

...Neil Sinclair Purpose The purpose of this paper is to raise issues about Transforming Care (TC) and discuss possible solutions. Design/methodology/approach Reflections and commentary on Transforming Care following Painter et al.’s article on correlates for the risk of admission...

... of data submitted as part of the Transforming Care programme in England. Findings 2,510 people with learning disabilities in England were inpatients on 31st March 2016. Findings indicate that people with learning disabilities are at risk of higher rate of inpatient admission than can be explained...

... Restraint Transforming care This is about our son James’ life (see also Jack, 2010). It is a story of misfortune and a battle to find answers in which the greatest enemy was ignorance. As young parents, we had no professional understanding of autism, learning disability and the consequences...