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Partnership boards must make more effort to consult people with communications difficulties
- Author:
- BAMFORTH Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 21(1), 2007, pp.22-24.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Partnership boards often only pay lip service to consulting vulnerable people. The author looks at how proper consultation should be done. The article draws on work at the Leeds Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
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.
Ask the users
- Authors:
- CURRY Paul, CUPPLES Joan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 15(1), 2001, pp.18-20.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Reports on an action research project involving day service users in Luton which showed the way for future vocational development.
A radical new strategy for the 21st century
- Author:
- HOLMAN Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 14(4), April 2001, p.i.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
For the first time, people with learning difficulties have had their views taken into account in government policy. Considers some of the issues the White Paper Valuing People addresses and concludes that we still have some way to go before people can play a full in society.
Where is the support for self-determination?
- Author:
- ASPIS Simone
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 14(4), April 2001, pp.ii-iii.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Argues that support for self-determination, rather than providing services decided by others, would be the best way of reducing the poverty and exclusion of people with learning difficulties. Argues that the White Paper does not address this issue.
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.
Consultation: plan of action or management exercise?
- Authors:
- TOWNSON Louise, CHAPMAN Ross
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 12(4), April 1999, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Consultation is one of the 'four Cs' of the government's Best Value initiative. The authors argue that consultation in its own right is not enough, and that people should be involved on committees right through to the top if a real change is to take place.