Stepping Out are renowned for managing service users with severe challenging behaviour, and those needing high levels of support, via well structured semi independent living projects that incorporate strict boundaries and produce positive, measurable outcomes.
Dementia should be made a top health priority on a par with cancer and lung disease, a leading expert has said, after it was described as the next global “time bomb”. Professor Peter Piot, former Under-Secretary General of the United Nations, compared dementia to the AIDs epidemic and said one person is diagnosed with the mental illness every seven seconds.
Stepping Out know all about ‘challenging behaviour’ as a result Autism. Over the years we have had a variety of Autistic service users receive support via our semi independent living projects.
No we’re no talking health wise. But a new legal review has proposed that any social worker who is ‘unfit for practise’ should be fine, or at the very least, make them pay the costs of their conduct hearings.
While the commission says this could prove controversial, the current system of covering the costs through registration fees raises the question of “why good professionals should be expected to subsidise the miscreant”.