Ministerial thoughts on the future supervision of deputies (and ‘digital by default’)
Ministerial thoughts on the future supervision of deputies (and ‘digital by default’) The Rescare helpline has occasionally taken calls from members struggling with the procedures, and shocked at the cost, of the supervision process that applies to deputies. Having paid a not inconsiderable fee to the Court of Protection to apply to made a deputy, […]
New SEND Law Resources for parents and carers
New Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Law Resources for Parents and Carers Independent Parental Special Education Advice (known as IPSEA) is a registered charity. It offers free and independent legally based information, advice and support to help get the right education for children and young people with all kinds of special educational needs (SEN) […]
A New Camphill Place
Rescare has been asked by the authors to publish the following open letter. The views expressed are those of David and Marie-Reine… A New Camphill Place Camphill is a spiritual impulse aiming to work out of the heart of Christianity and Anthroposophy. It is not tied to the existing places of the world wide movement […]
How many? Well that’s close enough…
Interesting exchange in the Lords the other day. It seems to be a perennial problem in the world of ‘learning disability’ and especially autism, that those charged with implementing a policy or providing a service are never exactly sure how many people they are ‘dealing with’! So even with the passing of the Children and […]
Law Commission announces new project: Mental capacity and detention
The simple idea that has shaken adult social care to its foundations Six months on from the Supreme Court ruling on deprivation of liberty in the ‘Cheshire West’ case, the impact of Baroness Hale’s judgement continues to be felt. A recent article by Lucy Series in Community Care online (Oct 1st), entitled ‘The simple idea […]
Court finds local authority in ‘blatant disregard’ of Mental Capacity Act processes
We read with concern and growing astonishment a news item on the Family Law Week website which ran under the headline: Court finds local authority in ‘blatant disregard’ of Mental Capacity Act processes. As the judge observed, the case of P (a woman in Somerset with severe learning disabilities and an autistic spectrum disorder) had […]
September 30th 2014 – Learning Disability Census day. So that’s what HSCIC does…
I noted this exchange on 26th Sept 2014 in the House of Lords. Baroness Uddin (Labour): “To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many and what proportion of people in assessment and treatment units are known to have autism spectrum disorder; and of those, how many are children.” Earl Howe (Conservative): “The Learning Disabilities Census conducted […]
Call for Research Participants. A family carer? Can you help?
The Tizard Centre, an eminent research centre within The University of Kent, is carrying out research on how the learning disabled or their family carers choose their services and how the services offered are identified. (Rescare is aware that many of its members, as family carers, during ‘transition planning’ and at other times, will have […]
Commission on Residential Care (CORC): “Residential care must reinvent itself”
On 3rd September 2014, the findings of the Commission on Residential Care (CORC) were published. The year-long Commission was hosted by the leading thinktank, Demos, and chaired by Paul Burstow, Liberal Democrat MP for Sutton and Cheam, who from May 2010 until 2012 was the Minister of State for care services The commission brought together […]
A Tsunami of Information: Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
The Children and Families Act 2014 imposes a number of duties on local authorities in relation to Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plans. For example, young people with an EHC plan have the right to request a personal budget which may include elements of education, health and social care provision.