Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Toolkit

Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) TOOLKIT

The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme has one principal aim - to help PCTs implement NICE Guidelines for people suffering from depression and anxiety disorders. The Government is committed to improving access to psychological therapies and announced additional funding to increase services over the next three years. 

This Commissioning Toolkit is designed to help PCTs improve or establish stepped care psychological therapies following NICE guidelines. 

The toolkit is structured around the commissioning cycle and is specifically linked to the World Class Commissioning competencies.  

It brings together a wide range of existing tools and guides and includes positive practice examples throughout.

To download the TOOLKIT - click here

Valuing People Newsletter - Self Directed Support and Families

The latest newsletter is about some of the important things families of people with a learning disability need to know to have more choice and control in their lives.

The focus is on families and ‘self directed support’, or what has been more 

recently called Personalisation. 

The aim of the newsletter is to try and give families some information about 

personalisation and the different ways that it can help people have more 

choice and control in their lives. This is done through stories from 

families who are already ‘doing’ self directed support. 

The Valuing People Support Team asked the families a number of questions

• What made you try self directed support? 

• How has it changed your family’s life? 

• Have you had to overcome challenges along the way and how? 

• Do you have any top tips for other families? 

Follow the link below to download the report and find out what the families had to say:

Click here to read the newsletter

BANNED WORDS

The Local Government Association (LGA) has published a list of 100 words that public bodies should not use if they want to communicate effectively.

Local government leaders say that unless councils talk to residents in a language they understand, the work they do becomes inaccessible. This reduces the chances of people getting involved in their local issues.

The LGA's top 100 'banned words'

1. ambassador
2. agencies
3. beacon
4. best practice
5. bottom-up
6. CAAs
7. can do culture
8. capacity
9. capacity building
10. cascading
11. cautiously welcome
12. champion
13. citizen empowerment
14. community engagement
15. conditionality
16. consensual
17. contestability
18. core message
19. core value
20. coterminosity
21. coterminous
22. cross-cutting
23. customer
24. democratic mandate/legitimacy
25. distorts spending priorities
26. early win
27. empowerment
28. engagement
29. engaging users
30. enhance
31. evidence base
32. external challenge
33. facilitate
34. fast-track
35. flexibilities and freedoms
36. framework
37. fulcrum
38. good practice
39. governance
40. guidelines
41. holistic
42. holistic governance
43. improvement levers
44. incentivising
45. income/funding streams
46. initiative
47. joined up
48. joint working
49. LAAs
50. level playing field
51. localities
52. meaningful consultation/dialogue
53. MAAs
54. menu of options
55. multi-agency
56. multidisciplinary
57. outcomes
58. output
59. participatory
60. partnerships
61. pathfinder
62. peer challenge
63. performance network
64. place shaping
65. predictors of beaconicity
66. preventative services
67. priority
68. process driven
69. quick hit
70. quick win
71. resource allocation
72. revenue streams
73. risk based
74. scaled-back
75. scoping
76. seedbed
77. service users
78. shared priority
79. signpost
80. single point of contact
81. slippage
82. social contracts
83. stakeholder
84. step change
85. strategic/overarching
86. streamlined
87. subsidiary
88. sustainable
89. sustainable communities
90. symposium
91. synergies
92. tested for soundness
93. third sector
94. top-down
95. transformational
96. transparency
97. value-added
98. vision
99. visionary
100. welcome

for further information on the use of plain English follow this link and read the resources on the Plain English Campaign Website:

Link to Plain English Campaign

...all comments are 'welcomed'....

ADVANCING PRACTICE CONFERENCE 2008

Presentations from the 2008 Faculty for Learning Disabilities Advancing Practice Conference are available to view and download

Follow this link:

ADVANCING PRACTICE PRESENTATIONS 2008

The Annual Conference of the Division of Clinical Psychology

The Annual DCP Conference takes place at the Congress Centre, 28 Great Russell Street, London WC1 on

WEDNESDAY 10 DECEMBER to FRIDAY 12 DECEMBER 2008

Deadlines

30 June 2008 - Symposia and papers

1 October 2008 - Posters

to view further details follow this link:

DCP CONFERENCE WEBSITE

A Guide to the Human Rights Act for People with Learning Disabilities

A new booklet has been published to help people with learning disabilities understand the Human Rights Act.

The booklet has been written in easy to understand words - outlining the Act and explaining each of the Articles with examples of how it may be applied 

for example

ARTICLE 5 Right to freedom and security

You have the right to freedom.  You should not be arrested or locked up without a good reason, for instance of the police have reason to think you have done something criminal...

It's not fair for care staff to lock you in your room, even if they're angry with how you behaved.

to download a copy of the booklet follow this link

A Guide to the Human Rights Act

Accessible text designed by Working with Words

www.workingwithwords.org

Pictures are taken from the Change picture bank

www.changepeople.co.uk

LEARNING DISABILITY WEEK 15th to 21st JUNE 2008

LEARNING DISABILITY WEEK 2008

15th to 21st June 2008

The aim of this years Learning Disability week is to raise awareness of the low levels of employment among people with a learning disability.

Mencap have launched a new website called 'I Want to Work' specifically with this aim in mind

to view the website follow this link

I WANT TO WORK