Small Supports: A Paper to Challenge and Inform Transforming Care Partnerships

This paper thinks about people with learning disabilities and /or autism who are living in secure settings (hospitals and ATUs). For some years a new informal group of support organisations has been evolving and  are committed to supporting people with learning disabilities, mental health issues and autism. Often the people supported have experienced a string of placements in inappropriate, segregated, out of area, secure settings. Usually, these placements failed or broke down not because of the person but because the service was wrong