Winterbourne View Joint Improvement Programme and stocktake - UK

National partners have committed to improve the quality of the care offered to children, young people and adults with learning disabilities or autism who have mental health conditions or behaviour that challenges. As part of this, the LGA and NHS England have established a programme to provide leadership and support to transform services locally from childhood.

This will work with local areas to provide swift and lasting action across the system to ensure that services commissioned are personalised, safe and local. This should result both in a movement away from the use of long stay, large-scale hospital services and also lead to real and rapid change in attitudes and culture.

Local areas have been asked to complete a stocktake to assess their progress against the commitments made nationally, to ensure that programme resources are effectively targeted and to identify good practice. A key theme of work going forward nationally will be a focus on life course planning.  This will stress that it is essential to involve people and their families throughout the commissioning and care cycles to improve outcomes for individuals and populations. 

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