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A life better spent?: a DVD and booklet about personal budgets and making choices about your life
- Authors:
- VALUES INTO ACTION, (Producer), BEWLEY Catherine, (Author)
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- (19 mins.), DVD, booklet
- Place of publication:
- London
This DVD and booklet aims to help people with learning difficulties learn more about individual budgets. It explains about the changes with who has power over services and the money that pays for them, and how these changes should provide people with the power to make their own choices and live their lives in their own way. It describes how direct payment can be used to buy support directly. It also explains that people who don’t want to deal with their own money directly are still able to tell social services how they want their support money spent. The DVD describes the story of a young woman stuck in a dead-end job and how she manages to get choice and control in her life.
it's your choice
- Authors:
- BEAMER Stephanie, BROOKES Mark
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 11p., sound cassette
- Place of publication:
- London
An interactive and accessible workbook, designed to involve people with learning difficulties, including those who don’t use words. It uses pictures and audio-tape to tell people about their rights to have choice and control and gives people ideas about how they can change things.
Lighting beacons throughout the land: a description of the VIA advocacy project and reflections on developments in self advocacy
- Author:
- DAWSON Peter
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 44p.
- Place of publication:
- London
For 3 years Values into Action (VIA) managed the Valuing People funding for self advocacy groups. This report describes how the grants were given out, where the money went and how it was used. It also describes the development work carried out by the Project team, and reflects on the tensions and potential for the future of self advocacy.
Good support: a training pack for self advocacy groups to train their support workers
- Authors:
- COWIE Julia, Le-SURF Mike
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 120p., DVD
- Place of publication:
- London
This training course is for self advocacy groups to use to help train their support workers. It is designed to help meet the needs of self advocacy groups for trained supporters, and the need of supporters for training.
One law for all: the impact of the Human Rights Act on people with learning difficulties
- Authors:
- FINNEGAN Patricia, CLARKE Stephen
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 162p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Sets out the impact of the Human Rights Act in the campaign for with people with learning difficulties namely the the right of people with learning difficulties to enjoy, and to be treated with the same respect due to all citizens.
Values into Action
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
This journal is indexed and abstracted selectively on Social Care Online.
Helping ourselves?: direct payments and the development of peer support for people with learning difficulties: a report commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and produced by Values into Action
- Authors:
- BEWLEY Catherine, MCCULLOCH Linsay
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 29p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
New regulations which came into force in 2003 in England (and similar measures in Wales in 2004) mean that local authorities do not just have the power to offer direct payments; they now have a duty to offer them to eligible people. In theory, this should mean far higher numbers of people receiving direct payments, including people with learning difficulties. But key to take-up of direct payments is the availability of effective support to access and manage them. There are very few independent direct payments support schemes run by and for people with learning difficulties. Most independent direct payments support is provided by existing disabled people's organisations or direct payments schemes set up for the purpose. There are some very good examples but most independent direct payments support schemes have limited or no involvement by people with learning difficulties. There are different views and expectations about what 'independent' support means. The quality of support is crucial, not just its independence from statutory services. Assumptions about consent and ability to manage direct payments can block people with learning difficulties from accessing support and these can be held equally by independent support schemes as by statutory services. Sometimes an individual with appropriate attitudes, information and experience, whether based in independent support agencies or within social services, can have more effect in enabling people with learning difficulties to access direct payments than an independent contract that is given to those with little knowledge or experience about including people with learning difficulties. Local issues and assumptions around funding, tendering and contracts have a big influence on whether people with learning difficulties are included in support schemes and whether contracts are given to groups of people with learning difficulties.
As nature intended?: attitudes to new genetics and people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- DOWSON Steve
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 52p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Reviews the moral dilemmas surrounding genetic engineering, eugenics and people with learning difficulties. Questions include: what is the place of people with learning difficulties in a society that values diversity?; what are the links between the abortion debates and debates on prevention of disability?; what is the potential impact of genetic technlogies on attitudes towards people with learning difficulties?.
Who's in control: decision-making by people with learning difficulties who have high support needs
- Author:
- EDGE James
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 56p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Drawing on 18 months of research with people who have high support needs, VIA demonstrates how all people with learning difficulties can be enabled to be in control of their lives and how it can be demonstrated that those with higher support needs are indeed in control.
Pointers to control: consent and control by people with learning difficulties using direct payments
- Authors:
- BEWLEY Catherine, HOLMAN Andrew
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 44p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
Looks in detail at the legal aspects of making cash payments to people with learning difficulties and examines some of the implications for practice. Chapters include: an overview of the law on decision making; overview of the law on direct payments; complaints; and people's experiences.