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Ensuring their futures
- Author:
- McKINSTRY Kath
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 16(2), 2002, pp.17-18.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Describes the work of the Federation of Local Supported Living Groups, a project where families have formed groups to make sure their children have a good quality of life when they leave home.
User consultation: the bad and the good
- Author:
- GOODLEY Dan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 16(1), 2002, pp.9-10.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The author writes on his experiences of user consultation, and explains how an imaginative approach could help local authorities provide services that people want.
Making decisions gets the thumbs down from the National Forum
- Author:
- HOLMAN Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 16(1), 2002, pp.4-5.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The Lord Chancellor's Department consultation on Making Decisions has caused controversy among interested groups. Provides an update on recent developments.
No recognition for independent advocacy
- Author:
- ASPIS Simone
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 16(1), 2002, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Briefly reports on the shortcomings in Making Decisions, especially the lack of access to an independent advocate.
Alcoholism: mapping a course for change
- Author:
- INGLIS David
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 16(1), 2002, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Explores the challenges of working with people with learning difficulties who have alcohol problems.
Can we close the gap between valuing people and our service system?
- Author:
- O'BRIEN John
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 15(4), 2002, pp.21-23.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Asks whether the way in which services are provided can change sufficiently to support a person-centred approach, and deliver real changes in the lives of people with learning difficulties as set out in Valuing People.
What's in a label?
- Author:
- GOODLEY Dan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 15(3), 2002, pp.2-5.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Discusses the use of labels in the self-advocacy movement.
Planning an advocacy service
- Author:
- POPE Julie Stevens
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 15(3), 2002, pp.11-12.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Provides an account of putting together a service specification for an advocacy services for people with learning difficulties. Provides an account of the work that was undertaken, the outcomes and the achievements. The project demonstrates how service users can work alongside professionals and play a significant role in the development of services.
The best days of their lives?
- Authors:
- ABBOTT David, MORRIS Jenny, WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 15(3), 2002, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Many disabled children sent away to residential school have mixed feelings about their experiences. Reports on the findings of a recent study by the Norah Fry Research Centre.
Is what you need what you really want?
- Author:
- STEVENS Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 15(3), 2002, pp.9-10.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Need is good and want is bad is the first lesson of care manager, says the author. But when it comes to the supply of personal care products, shouldn't disabled people be involved in choosing them? However argues that disabled people should be involved in choosing their own personal care products.