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Effective systems to support people with learning disabilities: strategic briefing
- Author:
- GREIG Rob
- Publisher:
- Research in Practice for Adults
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Place of publication:
- Dartington
People with learning disabilities or autism have consistently poorer outcomes in areas such as health, life expectancy and quality of life. This includes their access to paid employment, housing, friendship and social networks. Social care support can help to enable people to address the inequalities they face as a result of learning disabilities. This Strategic Briefing talks through policy, evidence and practice to help leaders' plan social care systems to even out these inequalities so that people with learning disabilities can live good lives. It is aimed at senior decision-makers working across Adults’ Services. (Edited publisher abstract)
I've got an attitude problem
- Author:
- GREIG Rob
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.05.08, May 2008, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Valuing People has significantly influenced the agenda and level of public debate around services beyond the learning disability field. A lot that has been happening in the last five years in the wider social care front - for example, personalised individual budgets -which would not have happened without Valuing People. It was written as a programme that would last for three years and the fact we are taking policy to the next stage and there's going to be continued investment to 2011, 10 years on, suggests there's something right about it. Also some people's lives and services have changed. People with learning disabilities and their families that things have got better - that's the acid test.
Is there a future for the community learning disabilities team?
- Authors:
- GREIG Rob, PECK Edward
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 3(1), January 1998, pp.35-41.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Provides a distillation of consultancy and service evaluation of Community Learning Disabilities, from across the country over the last five years. Finds that many community teams are in a state of organisational confusion and others have ceased to exist. Aims to help develop our understanding of what has been happening to these teams and identify the issues that need to be considered if these resources are to be used effectively in the future.
Valuing people: the story so far; a new strategy for learning disability in the 21st century
- Author:
- GREIG Rob
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 59p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Valuing People is a ‘cradle to grave’ policy – it covers the lives of both adults and children. However, just after Valuing People came out, new policies for children were written, such as the Children’s National Service Framework and ‘Every Child Matters’. As these policies are quite new, this report just talks about adults with learning disabilities – but transition to adulthood is included.
Excluded from inclusion?
- Author:
- GREIG Rob
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.2.99, 1999, pp.2-3.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author argues that people with learning difficulties are missing out on the new health and social policy agenda because of policy-makers' over-emphasis on access to mainstream services.
Supported living: making the move: developing supported living options for people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- WOOD Alicia, GREIG Rob
- Publisher:
- National Development Team for Inclusion
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 28p.
- Place of publication:
- Bath
Many local authorities have changed services from residential care to supported housing for people with learning disabilities. Much of this change has focussed on achieving wider access to welfare benefits and having a tenancy. The aim of supported living to achieve choice, control and community inclusion has been much less of a focus. The result has been a focus on the housing ‘mechanics’ and as a consequence housing rights are often denied in practice, institutional practices continue in supported living and community inclusion and networks are not achieved. Over the coming 3 years, the NDTi Housing and Social Inclusion project will explore how to challenge and overcome some of the barriers that stop the shifting of resources from residential care to make the move towards real supported living. This paper has been written to promote discussion, debate and understanding about the obstacles that currently prevent adults with a learning disability from living in their own home in the ways that they want. Its objectives are to provide information that will help local people and organisations change and improve how they develop and deliver housing and support, and also to help inform national debate and discussion about how the policy and regulatory framework could change to help achieve this objective.
Valuing people, not institutions
- Author:
- GREIG Rob
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 8(3), September 2005, pp.34-39.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article describes the author's experience of two meetings. One, with a self-advocate-led organisation, was concerned with helping it expand and make use of its work a 3 key issues: advice on parenting skills for parents with learning disability, accessible information on health for people with learning disability, and training in the use of accessible information. The second was with a group of senior service managers seeking advice on how to reorganise and restructure their service organisations. The author discusses the 'professional gift model' and the 'citizenship model' which set of concerns and actions had the potential for the greatest impact on the lives of people with learning disabilities.
Valuing people, not institutions
- Author:
- GREIG Rob
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 10(1), February 2005, pp.30-35.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Describes the author's experience of two meetings. One, with a self-advocate-led organisation, was concerned with helping it expand and make use of its work a 3 key issues: advice on parenting skills for parents with learning disability, accessible information on health for people with learning disability, and training in the use of accessible information. The second was with a group of senior service managers seeking advice on how to reorganise and restructure their service organisations. Asks which set of concerns and actions had the potential for the greatest impact on the lives of people with learning disabilities.
Joint commissioning: searching for stability in an unstable world
- Author:
- GREIG Rob
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 2(1), January 1997, pp.19-25.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Learning disability services have been at the forefront of attempts to develop effective joint working between health and local authority agencies. There is now an emergent framework for commissioners to work together and some, albeit patchy, experience of doing so. Joint commissioning has demonstrated potential benefits for service users, though there is still considerable scope for widening the range of stakeholders and more firmly establishing it in the host organisations. This article aims to clarify the nature of joint commissioning, making observations on experiences around the UK and suggesting issues and obstacles that require future consideration.
Commentary on “Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme: a collaboration opportunity for academia and industry”
- Author:
- GREIG Rob
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 23(3), 2018, pp.147-149.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a UK perspective on the article by Mason et al. on Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Design/methodology/approach: A commentary on the main article, drawing on the author’s knowledge and experience of the implementation of personalisation in the UK and information gleaned during a recent visit to Australia. Findings: There is a major risk that the implementation of NDIS will repeat some of the failings of personalisation in the UK. Specifically, the failures of public bodies to invest in supporting people to take effective control over the resources available to them, and to instigate action to manage the emerging market in ways that promote innovative community options, risk the forces of the free market economy undermining disabled people’s ability to make maximum use of any new choice and control open to them. Originality/value: This is a personal perspective, backed by experience, on a current policy development that is of international interest. (Edited publisher abstract)