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Background: In the UK, the closure of ‘long-stay’ hospitals was accompanied by the development of community teams (CTs) to support people with intellectual disabilities (IDs) to live in community settings. The self-reported experiences of staff working in such teams has been neglected. Methods: Focusing on a single county-wide service, comprising five multi-disciplinary and inter-agency CTs, we measured perceptions among the health care and care management team members of (i) their personal well-being (Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) Maslach and Jackson, 1981); (ii) the functioning of their team (Team Climate Inventory (TCI) Anderson and West, 1994) and (iii) organisational commitment to quality and culture (the Quality Implementation Improvement Survey – II (QIIS-II, Shortell et al., 1995, 2000). Results: Almost three-quarters of the questionnaires were returned (73/101; 72%). The scores of health care and care managers were very similar: the MBI scores of more than half the respondents were ‘of concern’; (ii) similarly, almost four in ten respondents’ scores on the Vision scale were ‘of concern’; (iii) the perceived commitment to quality (QIIS-II Part 2) was uncertain; and (iv) the organisational culture (QIIS-II, Part 1) was viewed as primarily hierarchical. Discussion: The perceived absence of a vision for the service, combined with a dominant culture viewed by its members as strongly focussed on bureaucracy and process, potentially compromises the ability of these CTs to respond proactively to the needs of people with IDs. Given the challenges that changes in legislation, policy, and practice that have taken place since CTs were established, it would be timely to revisit their role and purpose.

Trying to remember something now typically improves your ability to remember it later. However, after watching a video of a simulated bank robbery, participants who verbally described the robber were 25% worse at identifying the robber in a lineup than were participants who instead listed U.S. states and capitals—this has been termed the “verbal overshadowing” effect (Schooler & Engstler-Schooler, 1990). More recent studies suggested that this effect might be substantially smaller than first reported. Given uncertainty about the effect size, the influence of this finding in the memory literature, and its practical importance for police procedures, we conducted two collections of preregistered direct replications (RRR1 and RRR2) that differed only in the order of the description task and a filler task. In RRR1, when the description task immediately followed the robbery, participants who provided a description were 4% less likely to select the robber than were those in the control condition. In RRR2, when the description was delayed by 20 min, they were 16% less likely to select the robber. These findings reveal a robust verbal overshadowing effect that is strongly influenced by the relative timing of the tasks. The discussion considers further implications of these replications for our understanding of verbal overshadowing.