Supporting people with a learning disability: DRAFT service model for commissioners

"This Service Model is intended for a particular juncture in the transformation of services for people with a learning disability and / or autism. It builds on existing NICE guidance (such as that on challenging behaviour) and will be superseded as good practice develops and in particular once NICE service model guidance is published in 2017."

Supporting people with a learning disability and / or autism who have a mental health condition or display behaviour that challenges: DRAFT service model for commissioners of health and social care services
NHS England, Local Government Association, Association of Directors of Adult Social Sevices 
July 2015

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Positive and Proactive Care: reducing the need for restrictive interventions

"Rigorous governance is needed to ensure that positive and proactive care is the main approach within services to reduce excessive reliance on restrictive interventions and to ensure that if they are used, it is only ever as a last resort, and they are undertaken in a proportionate and least restrictive way."

Positive and proactive care: reducing the need for restrictive interventions
Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnership Directorate
Department of Health
April 2014

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Meeting needs and reducing distress

"The purpose of this guidance is to provide practical strategies to help identify, assess, understand, prevent and manage clinically related challenging behaviour, by preventing or minimising a person’s distress, meeting their needs, and ensuring that high quality care is delivered within a safe environment."

Meeting needs and reducing distress: guidance on the prevention and management of clinically related challenging behaviour in NHS settings
NHS Protect
December 2013

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