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Transform your team
- Author:
- O'ROURKE Siobhan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 13(2), October 1999, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
However good the training to deal with challenging behaviour, the results will not be sustained if the staff team is in conflict. Discusses the use of a new approach, known as Transformational Work, to combine Gentle Teaching with a programme to help staff overcome their problems and work together constructively.
Moving on with Direct Payments
- Author:
- HARBRIDGE Elinor
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 13(2), October 1999, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The project manager of Swindon People First presents her views on Direct Payment schemes for people with learning difficulties, and argues it is the best way of helping people move on.
A duty to care
- Author:
- ASHTON Karen
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 13(2), October 1999, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The courts have ruled that local and health authorities have a duty to provide after care services for people detained under certain sections of the Mental Health Act and that it is illegal to charge for such services. The ruling followed a court case involving four service users and four different local authorities. Discusses the implications of this ruling for people with learning difficulties.
Good but not good enough
- Author:
- EMERSON Eric
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 13(2), October 1999, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Community-based support offers many benefits when compared with other residential options. However, a recent research study has shown that it falls far short when judged against the aspirations of the move to community, or the quality of life of many people who do not have a learning disability. Reports on the findings and argues that the issue should be central to policy and practice agendas in the next century.
Juggling to keep within the law?
- Author:
- HALFORD John
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 13(1), July 1999, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Under increasing financial pressure, many local authorities have cut services for disabled people living in the community, increased charges for those services, or both. The author considers whether such strategies are lawful.
Easing the way to legal redress
- Author:
- ASPIS Simone
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 13(1), July 1999, pp.6-7.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The Youth Justice Criminal Evidence Bill will make it much easier for victims with learning difficulties to get their cases heard in court. But it will still require the co-operation of managers to ensure that instances of abuse are properly reported.
Stop the bullying: treat us with respect
- Author:
- SHARP Hannah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 13(1), July 1999, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
A recent campaign by Mencap and Enable revealed a startling amount of bullying and harassment of people with learning difficulties with little action being taken by the agencies. Looks at some of the findings and recommendations and says that action by both national organisations and local groups is urgently needed to combat the problem.
The forgotten four hundred
- Author:
- STAINTON Tim
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 13(1), July 1999, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
A series of broken promises, apparently driven by cost cutting policies, means that today some 400 people are still languishing in large institutions in Wales. The number is slowly declining but this is due to mortality rather than resettlement rates. Charts the course that took Wales from the top to the bottom of the league for learning difficulties services.
The Human Rights Act - a new battleground for cash-strapped authorities?
- Author:
- HALFORD John
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 12(4), April 1999, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Discusses the impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 on the relationship between local authorities and people seeking community care services. The act comes into force in the year 2000.
Should NHS trusts be social care providers?
- Author:
- HARBRIDGE Elinor
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 12(4), April 1999, pp.4-5.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
NHS learning disability trusts are reinventing themselves as social care agencies within community or mental health trusts. Asks whether this should be a cause for concern as long as residents are discharged from the NHS and their services are provided in the community.