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A festval to foster a wider
awareness of the principles
of Positve Behaviour Support
(PBS) took place in idyllic
surroundings in Surrey earlier
Members of Bradford Talking Media were keen to atend! this year.
(Cartoon by Harry Venning)
atonal social ca e ovi e
N i ensions colla o a e wi
Contnued from previous page
seve al se vice ovi e s an
Bradford Talking Media showed a flm of Refectng on the Signifcant Incident o anisatons o ol e estval
several people’s stories about their life inquiry they had led on following the oice a e ou venues
hopes and ambitons. Having one person untmely death of Judith Benn in 2014, u e ositve e aviou u o
who knows them really well was top of David Blacklock and Louise Townson e wo k an u e oun ouncil.
many people’s lists. One man wanted from People First Cumbria, quoted the
to rent his own home and not have his shocking statstc that 37% of premature Guests were entced into a spacious
parents cramping his style. He wanted to deaths amongst people with learning environment adorned with reams of
cook for himself, go out and come home disabilites were avoidable, and concluded buntng, pompoms, fags, CDs, umbrellas
when he wanted, have friends around, that people with learning disabilites and ribbons. In the late summer sunshine
have a BBQ. He wanted his daughter to with communicaton difcultes face a the environment met people’s sensory
be able to stay at weekends. To achieve higher risk of having their health and needs and was appreciated by all.
this, he needed recogniton from a social social care needs overlooked.
worker that while his family can and do The festval looked at the challenges of
support him, they can also sometmes Many questons were raised by delegates implementng PBS natonally, locally,
control things and want diferent things in the discussion they facilitated about organisatonally or as an individual.
for him. the inquiry: why weren’t her family, A lot of big questons start to emerge –
who were involved in her life, contacted How do we enable change? How do we
earlier? Why wasn’t there a plan in place design safe quality services? How do we
KEY DISCUSSION POINTS to deal with a known health conditon? improve quality of life? How do we work
Such deaths are preventable with closer together? How do we embed change
l Professionals need to work in atenton paid to the individual and in practce?
true partnership with people with their needs.
learning disabilites, breaking down PBS is a framework to help understand
‘them and us’ barriers Films of all the conference presentatons a person’s behaviour, and then use that
are available at: knowledge to improve the person’s
l Less person-centred planning and htp://www.youtube.com/ quality of life and decrease behaviours
more person-centred doing playlist?list=PLSCQCP7Aa-Q-a3go that challenge.
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l Relatonships are at the Webpage for the event htp://wp.lancs. It has a solid evidence base. Over the
centre of everything ac.uk/cedr/events/beter-social-work- last decade it has become increasingly
conference-2017/ recognised as the social care sector’s
l Learning disability law similar to preferred approach to supportng adults
the Autsm Act 2009 could mean (See also: Servants not masters: and children with learning disabilites
beter treatment under the law beter social work for people with learning and autsm.
disabilites, page 26 of this issue).
l We need to grow the people
not the systems or the box Julie Ridley is Reader in Social Policy A session on the nature of behaviours that
of tricks. & Practce at UCLan and a Community challenge and Applied Behaviour Analysis
Living adviser. was presented by Nick Barrat, Head of

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