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Good practice guidelines in supporting older family carers of people with learning disabilities — Guideline 8 : Supporting older families to access short breaks
Corporate Author	Older Family Carers Initiative (OFCI), Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities - FPLD
Publisher	Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities - FPLD, London, 2005
Pages	19 pp
Source	Website: http://www.learningdisabilities.org.uk
Annotation	The Older Family Carers Initiative (OFCI) was a three year project designed to support Learning Disability Partnership Boards across England to identify and meet the needs of older family carers of people with learning disabilities, as prioritised in the White Paper, 'Valuing people'. The project began in 2002 and closed in 2005 with a new toolkit developed to help the Boards, entitled "Valuing Families : a toolkit for family friendly services". These good practice guidelines are part of the resources that were developed to reflect the lessons learned and the good practice developed across the country to support older family carers. It may be particularly useful to cross reference the information in this guideline with Guideline 4 : 'Older Family Carers and Carers Needs Assessments'. This Guideline is the last in the series to be published. It is available from FPLD as a download, see website for details. (KJ).
Accession Number	CPA-080415214 P
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