Special Measures is a two-year project, funded by a DCP grant, which aims to promote equality and diversity in gathering feedback and measuring outcomes for children and young people with learning disabilities.

The Child Outcomes Research Consortium (CORC) has been hosting and participating in the project that has seen collaboration across the DCP Faculty for Children, Young People and their Families, Experts by Experience and other interested organisations and practitioners.

It will also link with the BPS Divisions of Educational and Child Psychology and Occupational Psychology and DCP Faculty for People with Intellectual Disabilities.

• Special Measures Project - July 2020 update

• Stream 3: Hearing the Voice

  This document contains an interim summary grid signposting some of the relevant links for useful resources, people, practice developments and organisations we’ve linked with during this project.

• Hearing the ‘voice’ of and measuring change in children and young people with moderate, severe or multiple and profound learning disabilities

  This initiative is part of a wider project funded by the British Psychological Society (BPS), the ‘Special Measures’ Project, which aims to progress practice and practice-guidance on outcome measures and methods for hearing the voice and gaining feedback from children and young people with learning disabilities, their families and networks.

• Use of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire for Monitoring the Wellbeing of Children and Young People With Learning Disabilities

  Analysis and report by Professor Eric Emerson to present new data, extracted from the UK’s Millennium Cohort Study, on the face validity, factorial structure and reliability of the SDQ when used with children with learning disabilities.

  - Read the full report on the use of the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire

  - Read a summary report on the use of the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire

"Special” Measures: promoting equality and diversity in feedback and outcome measures for children and young people with learning disabilities

09:30-12:00

Friday 15 January 2021

This is a free virtual workshop for people working with children and young people with learning disabilities, their families and networks.

This interactive workshop aims to progress practice and practice-guidance on measures and methods for children and young people with learning disabilities (LD), their families and networks of support.

Learn more about this event and how to sign-up to attend.