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- How many people did family doctors do special health checks for in 2011/12?
- How many people have learning disabilities?
- How many people do family doctors know about who have learning disability?
- How many people with learning disability have a stable home? (NI 145)
- How many people with learning disability have paid jobs? (NI146)
- How many children have difficulty learning?
- How many people receive social care?
- How many people get different sorts of community based care?
This page was written by
Gyles Glover
How many people with learning disability have a stable home? (NI 145)
One of the Government's National Indicators (NI 145) asks about the sort of place people with learning disabilities were living in when they last had a review with their social worker. Types of place which are satisfactory and in which the person can stay as long as they want are called 'stable accommodation'. Other types of place are called 'unstable accommodation'. You can see a list of the types of accommodation considered as stable and unstable by clicking here.
You can see the maps about types of accommodation here.
For each local authority, the indicator shows the percentage of people with learning disabilities known to be living in stable accommodation. The maps show this for 2008/9 and for 2009/10. The numbers are quite badly incomplete. So in addition to these maps we have shown a map of the percentage the local authority did not know about.
Two categories of unstable accommodation are particularly worrying.
- People sleeping rough or squatting or accommodated in night shelters, emergency hostels or direct access hostels. For a person with learning disabilities these would be likely to mean they were actually unsafe.
- People in prisons, young offenders institutions or detention centres. We have called this 'custodial accommodation'. These people will need complex arrangements made for them on release.
The number of people in these categories is too small to map, and in many cases there are none. However we have drawn maps showing which local authorities reported having any people in these categories.