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Don't Forget Us: Children with Learning Disabilities and Severe Challenging Behaviour

Don't Forget Us: Children with Learning Disabilities and Severe Challenging Behaviour • • • B O O K REVIEW The Mental Health Foundation, 1997. London. 88 pages. ISBN 0 901944 42 4 Viv Hinchcliffe Chapter Two identifies the report’s key issues: the committee’s major concerns about the current fragmentation, duplication and poor co-ordination of assessment and support services offered to many families the need for development of central government policy for children with the most complex needs the need to develop a coherent and strategic approach to planning local services to ensure that the services for children with learning disabilities and severe challenging behaviour are well co-ordinated the importance of training for all staff working with these children. he committee which produced this report is to be commended for its thorough investigation of current patterns of provision for children and young people with learning disabilities and severe challenging behaviour. The committee, set up by the Mental Health Foundation, was established in 1993 in response to the Foundation’s growing concern about significant shortcomings in services to these children and their families. The report highlights these shortcomings and suggests positive ways of moving forward, building on the opportunities offered by recent changes in legislation, policy and practice. The committee’s concern, that http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Tizard Learning Disability Review Pier Professional

Don't Forget Us: Children with Learning Disabilities and Severe Challenging Behaviour

Tizard Learning Disability Review , Volume 3 (3) – Jul 1, 1998

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Copyright © 1998 by Pier Professional Limited
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1359-5474
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• • • B O O K REVIEW The Mental Health Foundation, 1997. London. 88 pages. ISBN 0 901944 42 4 Viv Hinchcliffe Chapter Two identifies the report’s key issues: the committee’s major concerns about the current fragmentation, duplication and poor co-ordination of assessment and support services offered to many families the need for development of central government policy for children with the most complex needs the need to develop a coherent and strategic approach to planning local services to ensure that the services for children with learning disabilities and severe challenging behaviour are well co-ordinated the importance of training for all staff working with these children. he committee which produced this report is to be commended for its thorough investigation of current patterns of provision for children and young people with learning disabilities and severe challenging behaviour. The committee, set up by the Mental Health Foundation, was established in 1993 in response to the Foundation’s growing concern about significant shortcomings in services to these children and their families. The report highlights these shortcomings and suggests positive ways of moving forward, building on the opportunities offered by recent changes in legislation, policy and practice. The committee’s concern, that

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Tizard Learning Disability ReviewPier Professional

Published: Jul 1, 1998

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