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Committed to change?: promoting the involvement of people with learning difficulties in staff recruitment
- Authors:
- TOWNSLEY Ruth, et al
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 72p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
The authors explain how they set up a training and development programme to promote the involvement of people with learning difficulties in staff recruitment. The report shows how practitioners and service users can be encouraged and supported to put research into action and to use research evidence to improve practice and promote change within their own organisations. The report explores the process of working with five organisations to implement user involvement in staff recruitment and examines: the four main steps of the 'Learning to choose staff' training and development programme; how the project team supported people with learning difficulties, support workers, managers and policy makers to work and learn together; and the strategies used by participants to promote, change and develop practice and policy relating to user involvement in choosing staff.
The select few
- Author:
- TOWNSLEY Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.7.02, 2002, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Describes a project in which people with learning difficulties were trained to help recruit staff had mixed results. Enabling people with learning difficulties to have more control over their own lives is a central objective of the recent learning disability white paper Valuing People. It emphasises that people with learning difficulties should be fully involved in decisions that affect them, including operational matters such as staff selection. Involving people with learning difficulties in staff recruitment also offers many opportunities for putting Valuing People's key principles of rights, independence, choice and inclusion into practice