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Finding your way: how to get help from social services
- Author:
- MENCAP
- Publisher:
- Mencap
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 9p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The booklet explains community care as the help and support given to older people or people with a learning or physical disability, to help them live more independently in their own home, in a residential home or with their family. People can get help to do things like cook meals, shop, pay bills, bath or do housework.
Strategies for change: implementing valuing people at the local level: developing housing and support options: lessons from research
- Author:
- HATTON Chris
- Publisher:
- University of Lancaster. Institute for Health Research
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- Lancaster
The White Paper Valuing People presents a wide-ranging agenda for change right across the spectrum of supports for people with learning disabilities. Much of this change is directed at the strategic planning level, including actions specified in the White Paper and forthcoming implementation guidance concerning housing services. Commissioners are clearly under considerable pressure to attend to the details of these actions and guidelines.
Adults with learning disabilities: implementation of 'The same as you?' Scotland 2003
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive. National Statistics
- Publisher:
- Scottish Executive National Statistics
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 13p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Home at last? The same as you? National implementation group report of the short-life working group on hospital closure and service reprovision - easy-read summary
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- The Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 11p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Stage coaches
- Author:
- FURSLAND Eileen
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.12.03, 2003, p.40.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on the Act Too Theatre Company in South West London which provides drama workshops as an alternative to day care for people with learning difficulties and puts on theatrical productions based on their experiences. The service has grown from a temporary summer project to becoming a limited company. Its first year funding from social services was £65,000, and now the company has an annual turnover of nearly £300,000.
Less equal than others?
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.8.03, 2003, pp.24-26.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on recent cases which illustrate that people with learning difficulties are still being treated as second class citizens by the health service, despite the government's Valuing People policies and targets for health action plans.
Access to work blocked as disabled people remain unaware of initiative
- Author:
- TAYLOR Amy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.8.03, 2003, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on how many employers and disabled people are still unaware of the government's Access to Work scheme. Highlights the lack of publicity given to the scheme
People die here
- Author:
- FISER Ivan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.7.03, 2003, p.41.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Briefly reports on care homes for adults with learning difficulties in Bulgaria, where conditions continue to be poor and residents have died for lack of medication.
The rights of spring
- Author:
- HUTCHINSON Gunn Strand
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.5.03, 2003, p.43.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
For the past 3 years people with learning difficulties in a town in Norway have marched on May Day to protest against their lack of employment rights. Looks at the reasons for the march.
Small step forward
- Author:
- HEDDELL Fred
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 16.1.03, 2003, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author, chief executive of Mencap, offers a personal view of the progress made in implementing the learning difficulties strategy, Valuing People.