Care services for people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour
This National Audit Office report finds that the Government did not meet its goal of transferring, by 1 June 2014, all people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour, for whom it was appropriate, from mental hospitals into the community.
“The process of moving people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour out of hospital, where appropriate, is complex and defies short-term solutions. Unless all parts of the health and social care systems work effectively together, it is unlikely to happen. NHS England has made a disappointingly slow start to this task. Although it has now increased its activity, there are formidable care, organizational and service hurdles to overcome in establishing a new model of care in more appropriate settings.”