Acts of commission: Commissioners and inpatient services for people with learning disabilities
“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change”* – Some questions about commissioners and inpatient services for people with learning disabilities ü A horrendous scandal in an inpatient service, with national media coverage and accompanying outrage? Tick ü Criminal prosecutions for the staff involved? Tick ü A government minister committed to change who remains in post long enough to see things through? Tick ü A high-profile national programme with (some) money put behind it? Tick ü Clear targets for services to achieve, with clear deadlines? Tick ü Ongoing monitoring and scrutiny of the national programme? Tick Yet with all these conditions in place (and scandal too often is the trigger of change), one year and more on from the start of the Winterbourne View Joint Im provement Programme, there is a palpable sense of disappointment in the slow progress being made in helping people with learning disabilities move on from inapp...