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Ordinary living twenty years on
- Author:
- GAULT Brian
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 14(2), October 2000, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Looks at social policy and services for people with learning difficulties in Sweden.
Are we neglecting the needs of older people?
- Author:
- THOMPSON David
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 14(2), October 2000, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The author raises his fears that unless the needs of older people with learning difficulties are specifically targeted, they will be neglected in the National Learning Disability Strategy.
A wake-up call for service providers
- Author:
- ASPIS Simone
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 14(2), October 2000, p.8.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Discusses how the Disability Discrimination Act aims to make services providers aware of their responsibilities to ensure that disabled people are not confronted by disablist attitudes or subject to negative generalisations by being labelled as having learning difficulties.
Putting the person at the centre of planning
- Authors:
- ROUTLEDGE Martin, SANDERSON Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 14(2), October 2000, pp.17-18.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Person centred planning (PCP) is increasingly promoted as a means by which people with learning difficulties can explore and be supported to pursue the lives they wish to lead. The authors from the North West Training and Development Team report on a serious attempt to make PCP happen within a large learning disability service.
The minimum wage: a mixed blessing?
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 14(1), July 2000, p.11.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Looks at the implications of the introduction of the minimum wage for people with learning difficulties.
No more obstacles to casting that vote
- Author:
- ASPIS Simone
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 14(1), July 2000, p.5.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Reviews the Act, Representation of the Persons Act, which will make it easier for disabled people to vote.
How to get the best results from research
- Author:
- CUPPLES Joan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 14(1), July 2000, pp.9-10.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The author argues that research projects get better information when people with learning difficulties are involved in conducting it as well as in the consultation project. Uses a piece of research commissioned by the Eastern Regional Health Authority about out well service users feel they are consulted about their services to illustrate the point.
Human rights: an Act with teeth
- Author:
- EDGE James
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 14(1), July 2000, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The first author urges solicitors and advocacy organisations to explore the 'enormous possibilities for people with learning difficulties' of the Human Rights Act. The second author, labelled as someone who has learning difficulties, looks at the historical reasons why people's rights have been so neglected.
Parents in a policy vacuum
- Authors:
- HOLMAN Andrew, LANGLEY Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 13(4), April 2000, pp.6-7.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The struggles to care for children by parents with learning difficulties are often made worse by a lack of support from social services. Describes the plight of one family.
A unique course producing thinking individuals
- Authors:
- RACE David, BOXALL Kathy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 13(4), April 2000, pp.20-22.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Looks at a course at Stockport College, which adopts a social approach to work with people who have learning difficulties, and appears to be the only non-medical special training available at degree level.