Practical examples of UK outcome based contracting. This article focuses on a structured approach by which purchasing agencies can consider and plan the delivery of outcome based contracting in a model which fully involves providers.

This framework sets out how self care support fits with existing commissioning approaches and some additional techniques that may be less familiar.

Looked at participant experience of value added by community involvement in governance through Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) in England. Althouggh not specific to people with learning disabilities, the benefits, costs and difficulties identified have lessons for community engagement in other governance structures, particularly those also including professionals and multi-agency groups.

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This report, commissioned by Mencap, summarises information that is available from nationally representative data sources on the life experiences and services used by people with learning disabilities in England. These data sources include information on service activity collected by the Department of Health and other government departments, and information that can be extracted from large scale nationally representative surveys