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Agenda announced
The next meeting of the Challenging Behaviour – National Strategy Group (CB-NSG) will be held on Friday 10th September 2010.
Ben Dyson (Director of Primary Care, Department of Health) will explain how individuals with complex needs will be included in the new NHS commissioning arrangements. Professor Eric Emerson will introduce the role of the newly established Improving Health & Lives: Learning Disabilities Observatory.
Members will be looking at the next three CB-NSG charter actions (Workforce, Evidence based practice and Health) and working together to formulate action plans. Audrey Giles, family carer will share her lived experience on these issues.
Dr Sarah Bernard (South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust) will present “Mental health needs/service provision for children and adolescents with challenging behaviour”.
To view the full agenda click here
To find out how to become a member click here
Posted: 4th September 2010
Challenging Behaviour charter launched
The Challenging Behaviour - National Strategy Group has launched a charter to promote the human rights of individuals with learning disabilities who are perceived as challenging.
Up to 27,000 people with learning disabilities in the UK may have been given a label of challenging behaviour. This group of people are being stigmatised, socially excluded and denied the right to ordinary lives in the community and are often placed in institutional settings a long way from home and families.
The label challenging behaviour, has become misused over time. Rather than being used as a term to encourage carers and professionals to understand the underlying reasons for a person's behaviour, 'challenging behaviour' has been used as a diagnostic label, viewed as being intrinsic to the person.
The Challenging Behaviour -National Strategy Group want people (and organisations) to sign up to the charter to register their support for the principles it contains and to commit to action to improve the lives of children and adults who are labelled as challenging. We need as many people as possible to support us, so please ask your friends and family to sign up too.
To view the charter click here
Easy read charter
An easy read version of the Challenging Behaviour – National Strategy Group Charter is now available. This includes:
• What is challenging behaviour?
• The challenging behaviour charter
• About the national strategy group
To view the easy read charter click here
For more information please contact: nationalstrategygroup@thecbf.org.uk or Tel: 01634 838739
Posted: 19th July 2010
Updates
CB-NSG members have been hard at work and we have produced a list of updates to enable you to read all about the work that has been carried out since November 2009. Updates include:
- An All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on challenging behaviour to be held at Westminster in December providing an excellent opportunity to influence MP’s
- CB-NSG members are presenting at the National Children and Adult Services (NCAS) conference in November providing an excellent opportunity to influence Directors of children and adult services.
- Sarah Bernard & Jane McCarthy (South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust) are producing a pamphlet for commissioners on the importance of workforce skills
- Royal College of Psychiatry (led by Roger Banks) & British Psychological Society (led by Theresa Joyce) are producing a Pathway for challenging behaviour
- Lisa Hopkins (Dimensions) is producing a pamphlet for commissioners to explain the key elements of a ‘capable environment’ for individuals described as challenging
- Catriona Moore (SCIE) is producing information on “Living with challenging behaviour: what services & support should family carers expect?”
Click here to view the full list of updates
Posted: 26th April 2010
Keep in contact with the CB-NSG
You can now become an associate member of the CB-NSG by e-mailing your request to become an associate to: nationalstrategygroup@thecbf.org.uk or Tel: 01634 838739. You will be added to a mailing list to receive information from the CB-NSG by e-mail on a regular basis. Associate members can input to the work of the group via telephone, post, e-mail and the CBF website. Associate membership is free of charge.
Posted: 10th February 2010
If you have any ideas or feedback on these action plans, please get in touch: nationalstrategygroup@thecbf.org.uk or Tel: 01634 838739.
Posted:10th February 2010
To view the charter click here
If you would like to sign up click here to download a sign up form