Community-based day activities and supports for people with learning disabilities: How we can help people to ‘have a good day’ July 2007, The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) was established by Government in 2001 to improve social care services for adults and children in the United Kingdom.
This guide is about what services can do to ensure that people with learning disabilities ‘have a good day’. It is about:
building community opportunities and support so that people can have ordinary daily lives
day service modernisation
community-based services
employment, lifelong learning, leisure, relationships … and more.
It includes:
research evidence
policy
examples of good practice
checklists
practical hints and tips
suggestions about where to get more information.
This guide is about the challenge of turning national policy into practical reality. It aims to give information from the current knowledge base, pointers to good practice, and ideas to take forward into your own work. Essentially this guide is about what services and individuals can do to help people with
learning disabilities to ‘have a good day’.
Community-based day activities and supports for people with learning disabilities: How we can help people to ‘have a good day’ July 2007, The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) was established by Government in 2001 to improve social care services for adults and children in the United Kingdom.
