The case study chosen includes a service user who has experienced cut-off and negligence from his relatives, friends and family especially during his childhood period. He has ever since longed to have contact or an attachment with a family securely. His condition has brought about anxiety which has made him unsettled. If the student is placed in an adult learning disability team whose role is to support adults with learning disabilities, the service users become screened or pre-assessed with fairness when it comes to caring. Such a process is useful in assisting individuals to meet their needs (Jenkins & Davies, 2011). It also ensures that those adults who are at low or moderate risk, are given advice and useful information are provided to them to assist in meeting their needs. Statistics show that nearly 1.5 million people in the United Kingdom have learning disabilities. Over 905,000 being adults aged 18 years and above.
There are several relevant legislation that protects the rights of adults with learning disabilities. Some of them are; the Human Rights Act 1998, the National Assistance Act 1948, the Data Protection Act 1998, the Mental Health Act 1983 and the National Health Service and Community Care Act 19990. There are also policies relevant to the protection of the adult with learning disabilities’ rights. Some of them include; Fair Access to Case – this needs the local delegates to eligibly classify this criterion into four categories of needs; low, moderate, substantial and critical (Brugha, Cooper, McManus, Purdon, Smith, Scott & Tyrer, 2012). All of these criteria are based on how serious the independence’s risk is if there is no address to issues.
For the protection of the individual’s privacy, his personal details have been anonymized. This is done in line with the provisions discussed on the Data Protection Policy and the Data Protection Act 1998. Section 6(2) of this act states that “local authorities have a general duty in common law to safeguard the confidentiality of personal information which they hold in connection with their social services functions.” This responsibility is managed and monitored by the Data Protection Policy and Team managers respectively (Jenkins & Davies, 2011).
Mr. B is the service user who was interviewed. He is a 40-year-old male individual with a borderline personality disorder and learning disability. He was born and brought up in Florida. By his birth’s virtue and the fact that the social care services got access of him first, under the National Assistant Act 1948, he became an ordinary resident in Florida State. Section 24(1) of this act gives mandate and empowerment to the local authorities to give residential accommodation for the individuals who are vulnerable. Mr. B provided information that his parents had a divorce when he was 5 years old. Since then, he got little contact with both of his parents. Of his three siblings, he is the eldest. Following allegations made by her sister against him for sexual abuse, he has had no contact with his only sister. Contacting his brother has been limited to occasional phone calls and cards (Jenkins & Davies, 2011).
Mr. B was diagnosed when he was 3 years old. Before his diagnosis, he experienced difficulty in reading and writing, clumsiness, poor memory, issues with concentration, difficulty in following instructions and being unorganized. His childhood was identified by hardship and trouble. As a result of that, he found it hard to form his own attachments because of the constant changes made in his living arrangements (Jenkins & Davies, 2011). While he was still living under the social care services, he made expressions of longing to move back to his hometown, back in 1999. He became a tenant with a housing association locally and was even given support intensively by the team. This arrangement broke down suddenly after Mr. B’s constant cravings for attention. He even got himself into self-injurious behaviors...
References
Brugha, T., Cooper, S. A., McManus, S., Purdon, S., Smith, J., Scott, F. J., ... & Tyrer, F. (2012). Estimating the Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Conditions in Adults: Extending the 2007 Adult Psychiatric.
Jenkins, R., & Davies, R. (2011). Safeguarding people with learning disabilities. Learning Disability Practice, 14(1).
Torrente, J., Del Blanco, Á., Moreno-Ger, P., & Fernández-Manjón, B. (2012, November). Designing serious games for adult students with cognitive disabilities. In International Conference on Neural Information Processing (pp. 603-610). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
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