Support for people with a learning disability

You can find a further range of resources below.

Resources

• NHS England, 2023 Supporting People with a Learning Disability, and Autistic People to live Happier, Healthier Longer Lives: A Bitesize Guide for Commissioners
• Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) Strengths-Based Approaches
• We Deserve Better: Ethnic Minorities with a Learning Disability and Access to Healthcare published by NHS Race and Health Observatory and partners, the University of Central Lancashire, Manchester Metropolitan University, Learning Disability England, and the Race Equality Foundation. This report covers research insight, using mixed research methods, into the access and experiences of healthcare services for people with learning disabilities from Black, South Asian (Indian, Pakistani, or Bangladeshi heritage), and other minority ethnic backgrounds. There is also an accompanying video about this on YouTube featuring discussions by people with lived experience and researchers on the barriers to healthcare faced by people with a learning disability from ethnic minority backgrounds.
• Listen Include Respect guidelines June 2022: About Listen Include Respect. The Listen Include Respect guidelines help organisations understand what they need to do to make sure people with intellectual disabilities are included in their work. They were written by Inclusion International and Down Syndrome International.
• Better commissioning for better lives: top tips for commissioners, NHS Confederation: These top tips for commissioners are based on roundtable discussions between people with learning disabilities and commissioners in March 2022
• Good Lives: Building Change Together Learning, Disability England 2022
• Learning from Life and Death Reviews of people with a learning disability and autistic people, August 2022
• Mandatory training about learning disability and autism for health and social care provider staff
• Skills for Care Commissioning services for people with a learning disability framework and jargon buster. June 2021
• Skills for Care, Heath Education England, and NHS Core Capabilities Framework for Supporting People with a Learning Disability 2019