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A voice for England?
- Author:
- BOURLET Gary
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 26(4), 2013, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Scotland and Wales have their own national self-advocacy organisations but not England. The author believes England needs its own organiseation to represent people with learning difficulties so their voice can be heard. (Publisher abstract)
Personal budgets: whose money is it?
- Author:
- DUFFY Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 25(4), Summer 2012, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The focus of this article is direct payments, personalisation, and self-directed support for disabled people. The article argues that there were major problems with direct payments for people with learning difficulties and that self-directed support was designed to tackle these problems and create a new system for social care. It describes the work of a project called In Control from 2003 to 2009 in challenging previous practice and proposing new ways of using personal budgets, and reports that despite some improvements there are still considerable problems. The author asserts that personal budgets should belong to disabled people and their families but that there are often barriers to how they can use them, and argues that campaigning is needed to ensure further progress.
Managing change: how we can help service user trustees to cope
- Author:
- HAMMOND Tracy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 24(1), Autumn 2010, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Recently, the charity KeyRing underwent a restructure that saw a period of significant change for the organisation. As many organisations they have recently involved service users on their board of trustees. The author shares some of her own organisation's lessons from this time. The article explores the challenges service user trustees will have to face when participating in the services they have discussed as a trustee, such as maintaining confidentiality. It examines the training needed to enable user trustees to take part in the full decision making process. It details stress management practices necessary for service user trustees to ensure they are quipped to make good decisions. The author concludes that the resources invested in good support for trustees will result in better and more representative decisions, coupled with a lower turnover of trustees.
I felt like I had been raped
- Author:
- KELLY Sean
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 21(4), 2008, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
A man with learning disabilities who experienced a vicious physical assault tells his story to the author. He dealt with the trauma by offering a counselling and advice service to other victims of crime.
Smoothing the way to sharing power
- Author:
- ROWAN Katie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 20(4), 2007, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Charities are beginning to recognise the value of appointing people with learning difficulties to their boards. The author looks at the challenge this poses for them. The article also highlights four examples from organisations demonstrating the different approaches to user involvement.
A voice on the board
- Author:
- KELLY Sean
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 20(4), 2007, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The author talks to one man with learning difficulties about his experience of sitting on four trust boards.
How are supportive services for direct payment users?
- Author:
- STEVENS Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 17(3), 2004, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Looks at what a proper direct payment support services should do to fully support all its service users.
Power in the community: how community groups can achieve their goals
- Author:
- BRIGHT Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 16(4), 2003, pp.13-15.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Reports on the Elfrida Society's Community Development Project which, three years on, is showing what community groups can achieve with careful support and mentoring. The project has worked with people with learning difficulties to establish their own community groups, some of which have become community enterprises.
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.