Community Care Services for Adults with a Sensory Impairment: An Action Plan

DescriptionAction Plan builds on what is already in place and sets out short, medium and long term goals to meet some of the common needs identified by people with sensory impairments themselves
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Website Publication DateJanuary 12, 2004

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Community care services for people with a sensory impairment
An Action Plan

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Contents

Ministerial Foreword

Introduction

Definitions and prevalence

Conference findings - the user perspective
- Access to services
- Information needs
- Standards
- Training
- User participation

The way forward
- Identification of need
- Better joint working
- Single shared assessment
- Standards
- Training
- Physical access

Recommendations summary

Annex 1 Summary of consultation responses

Annex 2 Summary of SWSI Annual Report 2003

Annex 3 Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Extract)

Annex 4 Lists of respondents

Bibliography

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