• Care At Home
• Commissioning
  • Capacity to Change
  • Procurement
  • Shared Learning
• Delayed Discharge
• Governance and Management
• Housing
• Integrated Transport with Care
• Intermediate Care
• Managed Care Networks
• Performance Improvement
• Reshaping Care for Older People
• Rural and Remote
• Talking Points: User and Carer Involvement
• Telecare in Scotland

Shared Learning

One important aspect of JIT's Shared Learning work area is the development of good practice guidance. Evidence-based research is the ideal way to gather and share information that partnerships can apply in their own area.

We're currently in the early stages of developing good practice guidelines to improve the quality of life for people with learning disabilities.

New national statistics show need for services to support adults with learning disabilities in Scotland

You can view the full article here.

National Statistics [65Kb]

Statistics Release

Statistical Information: Adults with Learning Disabilities Implementation of 'The Same as You?' Scotland 2008 has now been released. You can access these here.

Implementation of The Same as You [685Kb]

Estimating Future Numbers of Adults with Profound Multiple Learning Disabilities in England

You can view the Centre for Disability Research report published in 2009 here.

Centre for Disability Research [530Kb]

Commissioning Service Changes for People with Learning Disabilities We have produced a second workbook in our Capacity to Change series. The workbook provides partnerships with a framework to estimate future need and demand for services, given population changes, along with financial and workforce data, as well as service analysis and option appraisal in support of decision-making about improvements in care pathways and service delivery.

Commissioning person-centred, cost-effective, local support for people with learning difficulties The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) commissioned this knowledge review in order to ‘bring together knowledge from research and practice on commissioning person-centred, cost effective, local support for people with learning difficulties who are labelled as having complex needs and/or challenging behaviour’.

Adults' Services Knowledge Review 20

Improving Outcomes: 7-Step Individual Commissioning Pathway Improving Outcomes is an online toolkit / flowchart that was designed to help commissioners use existing evidence and good practice when developing and evaluating individual service plans for people with learning disabilities. Click here to access the flowchart via our Knowledge Bank.

Commissioning Services - Laying the tracks as the train is coming? Download a copy of the November 2007 article [135Kb] written by Martin Campbell, published in Learning Disability Practice Journal.

CSIP report from "Getting to grips with the money" Getting to grips with commissioning for people with learning disabilities [116Kb]