Minstead Trust Literature Review Report

Minstead Trust provides a range of service and activities for people with intellectual disabilities.
Minstead Trust commissioned this review of academic literature. Minstead Trust wished to better understand the ways in which relationships between parents and Minstead Trust staff could be enhanced. While Minstead Trust felt it was working extremely hard to meet parents’ needs and was committing significant amounts of unfunded staffing to working on these relationships, they were aware there were differences between parental expectations and the operational deliverable outcomes which the Trust could feasibly provide. Minstead Trust therefore wanted to find out whether recent research suggested this was an isolated phenomenon and if not, whether research suggested any possible trends and solutions.
A review of academic literature was undertaken. Results are presented and solutions from academic literature are reported. Findings suggest this is a global phenomenon and that parents themselves also want to work closely with services. Parents themselves report a range of practical solutions.