Working with LGBTQI+ disabled people: top tips for personal assistants and support workers

Part of Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, questioning, intersex +

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At a glance SCIE resource on LGBTQI+ people and social care

LGBTQI+ disabled people using self-directed support

Part of Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, questioning, intersex +

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At a glance resource providing information for LGBTQI+ Disabled People who use self-directed support and who employ personal assistants (PAs) or support workers.

Easy read: LGBTQI+ disabled people using self-directed support

Part of Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, questioning, intersex +

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Easy read version of SCIE's At a glance resource providing information for LGBTQI+ Disabled People who use self-directed support and who employ personal assistants (PAs) or support workers.

Safeguarding adults: types and indicators of abuse

Part of Safeguarding adults

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This publication discusses signs and indicators of abuse in adults including physical, sexual, psychological or emotional, financial or material, neglect or acts of omission, discriminatory and institutional abuse

Understanding Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA) for people who use services

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Understanding Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA) for people who use mental health services including carers. People who are detained under the Mental Health Act can use the services of IMHA. This publication includes what is IMHA, who can use IMHA and what does IMHA do.

Understanding Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA) for mental health staff

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Understanding Independent Mental Health Advocacy for mental health staff is about the role of IMHA, who is eligible, and how to support people who used services to access IMHA.

Adult safeguarding for housing staff: At a glance

Part of Adult safeguarding for housing staff

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This guide helps identify people who are risk of abuse in housing, how to respond, and guidelines for housing managers on keeping people safe. This includes people living in sheltered, supported or extra care housing and those with care and support needs living in general needs housing.

Better life for older people with high support needs: the role of social care

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This briefing summarises the seven challenges set out by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s (JRF) A Better Life programme which will help older people with high support needs achieve a better quality of life. It identifies key SCIE resources that will support people working in social care address each of the challenges in their practice and relationships with older people with high support needs and achieve the overall aim of supporting choice, control and quality in their lives. The challenges cover: encouraging positive images of ageing; taking a person centred approach to care; encouraging importance of meaningful relationships; treating older people as equal stakeholders in their care and support services; allowing older people with high support needs to make decisions; and being open to innovative and new approaches of providing care and support.

Co-production in social care: what it is and how to do it (At a glance)

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A summary of what co-production is and how to develop co-productive approaches to working with people who use services and carers. Written in conjunction with the Think Local Act Personal Partnership.

Partnership working in child protection: improving liaison between acute pediatric and child protection services

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Summary of how hospital trusts and councils' social care services can work together to identify and prevent child abuse and maltreatment