Resources

Practice Leadership encourages managers to demonstrate effective support by modelling the desired behaviours and using practical examples.

Our Transforming Care resources centre on the process of moving people with learning disabilities and autism from long stay institutions to community settings.

This 20-page guide explains how working with communities will make a difference for the people we support and to the lives of others.

These videos provide real-life examples – accompanied by expert commentary – that highlight the subtleties of person centred support techniques in action.

The Foundations of Good Support is a step by step guide to assessing the quality of support being provided for people with learning disabilities and/or autism, and identifying what might need changing in order to improve it.

Structure is the most fundamental step in the Foundations of Good Support. Without it, any other efforts to improve support for people with a learning disability or mental health need are at risk of failure.

Communication is the means through which someone with a learning disability or autism controls their environment and experience, expresses their feelings, thoughts and emotions and the way they make sense of the world around them.

Our ‘What does good look like’ guide is a resource for observing in services for people with learning disabilities and/or autism.

Guides and information on Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) , and how the approach is used to support people whose behaviour is challenging.