Practical advice from families can ensure people with learning disabilities or autism avoid institutional care.
Authors: Bringing Us Together
Too many people with learning disabilities or autism are admitted to mental health hospitals and institutions. This is usually because they are getting no support or the wrong kind of support. This Family Survival Guide from Bringing Us Together was created by families to explain how the system works and offers practical advice on how to get the best results for the whole family.
From the Introduction:
Welcome to our family survival guide to Care (Education) and Treatment Reviews referred to as C(E)TRs, and The Dynamic Support Register, referred to as DSRs. This guide has been written to help families understand these processes.
The guide focuses on the period before, during and after a C(E)TR, and also covers related topics to help you understand the process. It is based on NHS England’s Dynamic Support Register and Care (Education) and Treatment Review Policy and Guide, which came into effect in May 2023, so this is an updated version of the previous Family Survival Guide from 2017 to reflect the changes.
This guide has been developed with the help of some very dedicated parents and families of autistic people and people with learning disabilities, who have experienced their loved ones being an in-patient in a mental health hospital.
For more information about Bringing Us Together get in touch with Katie Clarke.
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The publisher is Bringing Us Together. Care (Education) & Treatment Reviews and Dynamic Support Registers © Bringing Us Together 2024.
children and families, Deinstitutionalisation, disability, Family Leadership, Inclusion, intellectual disabilities, mental health, Peer Support, Person-Centred Planning, Personalised Support, England, Paper
