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Why do people with a learning disability and / or autistic people get stuck in hospital?

Would you like to enhance your social work knowledge base and evidence-based practice experience? Do you want to learn more about research taking place in the region and how it can inform your social work practice? We know that evidence-based practice is crucial to good social work. It helps keep us professionally curious. However, in the busy world of front line social work, we know that it can be challenging to keep up to date with the latest research, to make sense of it and understand how it applies to the day to day issues that social workers deal with. The West Midlands Social Work Teaching Partnership is committed to developing links between research and practice in social work. We want to support practitioners to engage with research that can help them with the real-world issues they work with daily. We are therefore hosting a series of quarterly Learning from Research Seminars which will feature a researcher who will present a piece of research with key findings and messages for contemporary social work practice. Time is also allowed for questions and reflections for learning and moving forwards. These sessions will provide learning for both adults and children’s practitioners, with opportunity to feedback some messages from practice to help inform future research. Our next seminar will be held on 15th of February 2023 10:00-11:30am. Why are we stuck in hospital? Understanding the experiences of people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people, families and staff in long-stay hospitals and will be delivered by Jon Glasby, University of Birmingham/IMPACT Although the UK decided to close asylums for people with learning disabilities from the 1960s onwards, around 2,000 people are still in hospital, often for many years and with no sense of when they may be able to come out. This is a real problem as these services can struggle to help people to lead ordinary lives, are very expensive, can be a long way from people’s homes and families, and have seen a number of abuse scandals – just as was the case with the asylums of the 1960s. In response, the University of Birmingham and the rights-based organisation, Changing Our Lives, have been working with three case study sites across the country, trying to understand barriers and success factors from the point of view of people in hospital, families and health and social care staff. Key lessons are summarised in a forthcoming policy guide which will be sent to every health and social care leader in the country, based on ‘ten top tips’ from people in hospital, families and staff. We are also launching a free training video for care staff who might lack access to formal training opportunities. This workshop summarises key findings and shares learning around the process of carrying out research into such complex and sensitive policy and practice issues. Findings will also be shared via an exhibition at The Ikon gallery, which seeks to amplify the voices of people with learning disabilities and autistic people in hospital (https://www.ikon-gallery.org/exhibiti....