Glossary
AA - Attendance Allowance: benefit for people aged 65 or over
AA – Alcoholics Anonymous
ABLE – was Disablement Information Advice Line: an excellent source of information
AFASIC – Association For Speech Impaired Children
AL-ANON – support for families and friends of alcoholics
BILD – British Institute for Learning Disability
BLUE BADGE – allows parking in reserved spaces for cars of disabled people or disabled passengers
CA – Carers Allowance: benefit for carers
CA – Carer’s Assessment – Assessment of carer’s needs to continue caring – at the moment there is no charging policy for carers, unlike service users.
CAB – Citizens Advice Bureau
CaF – Contact a Family: national charity offering support to families of children with disabilities
CARER – a person who looks after someone else
CARERS ACTION – supports and provides services for carers
CARERS UK – national campaigning charity for carers
CCA – Community Care Assessment – Assessment of person to discover their needs – statutory document – gateway to services.
CDC – Child Development Centre
COMMISSIONING – jargon for purchasing
COMMUNITY CARE PLAN – follows the CCA
CONDUCTIVE EDUCATION – technique to develop muscle strength and control in children with cerebral palsy
CRUSE – organisation to support the recently bereaved
CSCI – Commission for Social Care Inspection – inspects local Social Care departments and residential homes
CTB – Council Tax Benefit: for adults on low incomes to help pay council tax
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DIAL-A-RIDE – community transport scheme
DISTRICT COMMITTEE – local Mencap committee with elected membership working to improve local and national services for learning disabled people and their families and carers
DLA – Disability Living Allowance: benefit for disabled people up to age 65
DoH – Department of Health: government department responsible for health and social services
DP – Direct Payment – Social Care money given to the service user to buy their own services
DRC – Disability Rights Commission
DWP – Department of Work & Pensions: government department responsible for benefits and pensions
EBD – Emotional and Behavioural Difficulty: describing some children in school setting
EC – European Community
ECHO – Charity based in Leominster providing opportunities for people with learning disabilities. Some schemes are now working in Hereford city.
ESF – European Social Fund: money dispensed by EC
FAMILY FUND – fund run by Joseph Rowntree Foundation with government money. Gives lump sum grants for particular needs to families with a severely disabled child.
HALO – council service for leisure opportunities
HCIL – Herefordshire Centre of Independent Living – local charity supporting people to live independently using direct payments and ILF money
HCS – Herefordshire Carers Support: supports local carers
HEADWAY – local organisation to help people with a head injury
HEREFORDSHIRE MENCAP – local society working with learning disabled people and their families and carers
HHT – Hereford Hospital Trust
HOLLYBUSH – centre to help families with a child under 5, offering child care, drop-in centre, parent support and counselling
HOMESTART – helps families experiencing stress (with a child under 5)
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ILF – Independent Living Fund: to enable people with severe disabilities to live in their own communities – Government Trust Fund
INCAPACITY BENEFIT – taxable benefit for people incapable of working. There is an invalidity allowance for severely disabled people.
KEYWORKER – professional carer with particular responsibility for a given client
LA – Local Authority
LDAF – Learning Disability Award Framework – knowledge based learning for care workers employed in services for people with learning disabilities
LDP – Local Delivery Plan – what the PCT will provide locally
LDS – Learning Disability Service
LDT – Learning Disability Team – as above but LDS preferred
MAKATON – form of communication using hand signs
MARSHFIELDS – day centre for adults in Leominster
MENCAP – Royal Society Mencap: national charity understanding learning disability
MIND – Mental health association
MOTABILITY – scheme to provide finance for wheelchairs and cars for disabled people
NICE – National Institute for Clinical Excellence – Government quango advising on drugs, treatments.
NIMBY – Not In My Back Yard
NORMALISATION – Wolfenburger’s philosophy that people with learning disabilities are part of the community
NVQ – National Vocational Qualification: qualifications gained from experience rather than exams
OT – Occupational Therapist – professional with knowledge of aids and adaptations to enable people to enjoy a greater quality of life
PERSON CENTRED PLANNING – placing the person at the centre of any plan for his/her life.
PALS – Patient Advice and Liaison Service – each Trust has to have one – does what it says
PAN – Peoples Advocacy Now – local self advocacy project
PB – Partnership Board – each Local Authority should have one – professionals, service users, family carers and others planning local services
PC – Politically Correct: current acceptable terminology
PCT – Primary Care Trust – buys and provides health care for designated area
PFI – Private Finance Initiative – private money used to build public buildings, eg hospitals
PFSA – Parents’, Friends’ & Staff Association, eg at St Owens Centre
PMLD – Profound & Multiple Learning Disability
POVA – Protection of Vulnerable Adults – Las, PCTs etc are obliged to have a code of practice
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QA – Quality Assurance: effort to assess that standard of what is being delivered eg care
RADAR – Royal Association for Disability And Rehabilitation
RDA – Riding for the Disabled
RELIEF CARE – when a stand-in carer comes into the client’s home
RESPITE CARE - short-term care provided by an establishment or by a host family
RING-FENCED – of money: allocated to a specific project
RNIB – Royal National Institute for the Blind
RYEFIELD CENTRE – day centre for adults in Ross
SCOPE – national charity understanding cerebral palsy
SEN – Special Educational Needs: established by ASSESSMENT, which results in STATEMENT
SENCO – Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator
SENSE – National Deaf-Blind and Rubella Association
SHA – Strategic Health Authority – like the old regional health authorities – for strategic direction - Herefordshire is combined with Worcestershire, Warwickshire and Coventry – WMS SHA – West Midlands South Strategic Health Authority
SHMG – Social Housing Management Grant – government money to support Local Authority budgets for residential homes – ending April 2005
SHOPMOBILITY – wheelchairs and scooters lent to disabled shoppers
SNOEZELEN – Dutch technique for multi-sensory stimulation/relaxation.
SOCIAL CARE – Social Services Department
SSD – Social Services Department, now re-termed ‘Social Care’
STATEMENT – agreed conclusions about a person’s needs and how they should be met
ST OWENS – day centre for adults in Hereford
TANBROOK – day centre for older adults in Hereford
VA – Voluntary Action – county-wide agency supporting local charities
VP – Valuing People – White Paper published in 2001 setting out Government aims for the whole life of people with learning disabilities
WMS SHA – West Midlands South Strategic Health Authority
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