Links to Useful Resources – Web Sites & Documents

This page aims to provide some useful resources for employers, carers, staff, students and others – it is currently ‘under construction’ and we would welcome any suggestions.

Physical Interventions:

Guardian article about the death of an NHS patient during restraint (2006):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2006/oct/24/mentalhealth.socialcare

Report into the death of David ‘Rocky’ Bennett (1998):

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Society/documents/2004/02/12/Bennett.pdf

NSPCC Report for parliament into the use of restraint in Secure Training Centres:

http://www.nspcc.org.uk/Inform/policyandpublicaffairs/Westminster/nspcc_crae_jchrresponse_sirestraint_wdf51360.pdf

Learning Disabilities – Documents:

The Mansell Report (2007)

A Life Like Any Other? – Parliamentary Report on the Human Rights of People Learning Disabilities 2007/8

Learning Disabilities – Web Sites:

British Institute of Learning Disabilities (BILD) 

http://www.bild.org.uk/

Foundation For People with Learning Disabilities

http://www.learningdisabilities.org.uk/

NHS National Library for Health – Learning Disabilities

http://www.library.nhs.uk/learningdisabilities/

Department Of Health – Social Care – Learning Disabilities

http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/SocialCare/Deliveringadultsocialcare/Learningdisabilities/index.htm

Royal College Of Psychiatrists – Learning Disabilities Information

http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mentalhealthinformation/mentalhealthproblems/learningdisabilities.aspx

MIND – Understandind Learning Disabilities

http://www.mind.org.uk/Information/Booklets/Understanding/Understanding+learning+disabilities.htm

Valuing People Support Team

http://valuingpeople.gov.uk/index.jsp

The Learning Disability Coalition

http://www.learningdisabilitycoalition.org.uk/

 

Suggest a link – email to nick (at) timian.co.uk