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© British Association of Social Workers
Building Care Management Competence in Services for People with Learning Disabilities
Paul Cambridge is Senior Lecturer in Learning Disabilities and Service Development Consultant at the Tizard Centre, University of Kent at Canterbury. He has examined care management in relation to the Care in the Community pilot projects and undertaken research on the long-term outcomes and costs of community care for people with learning disabilities. His related interests include joint working and commissioning and he has researched the organization of community support teams for people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviours, including the co-ordination of assessment and wider service interventions. Care management is also a research dimension of a new Department of Health funded project on Care in the Community: 10 Years On. More widely, he has undertaken research, training and policy development work in sexuality and HIV in services for people with learning disabilities, producing academic papers and training and educational materials on the subject and is currently looking at the construction of intimate and personal care for people with learning disabilities and complex needs.
Correspondence to Paul Cambridge, Tizard Centre, The University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7LZ, UK.
Summary
This paper examines care management arrangements in services for people with learning disabilities. Its perspective is informed by research on the long-term outcomes and costs of care in the community for people with learning disabilities (Cambridge et al., 1994) and by earlier experimental approaches to care management in Britain. Building on arguments developed by the author in a position paper in 1992 (Cambridge, 1992), the focus here shifts to the performance of mainstream care management in services for people with learning disabilities, with an identification and review of critical dimensions for reviewing competence. Lessons from earlier experimental and demonstration approaches are used to inform the analysis and to construct pointers for commissioners or providers who are looking to assess the effectiveness of care management arrangements in learning disability within their own service systems.
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  P. Cambridge The Case for a New 'Case' Management in Services for People with Learning Disabilities Br. J. Soc. Work, January 1, 2008; 38(1): 91 - 116. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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