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Still a chance to learn?: report of a project by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on the Further and Higher Education Act (1992) and adults with learning difficulties
- Authors:
- MACADAM Margaret, SUTCLIFFE Jeannie
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Adult Continuing Education
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 94p.
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
This book is of a survey of the impact of the Further and Higher Education Act (1992) on education for adults with learning difficulties, carried out with the Norah Fry Research Centre and supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The work showed that the Act's impact has been mixed and that in particular, people with profound/multiple learning difficulties are starting to miss out.
Choosing staff: involving people with learning difficulties in staff recruitment
- Authors:
- TOWNSLEY Ruth, MACADAM Margaret
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 94p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
More organisations are beginning to involve people with learning difficulties in choosing staff, and service users themselves have highlighted this issue as crucial if they are to be fully involved in planning and delivering services. The authors explored the extent and nature of user involvement in recruiting staff for statutory, voluntary and private day and residential services.
Personnel services
- Authors:
- TOWNSLEY Ruth, MACADAM Margaret
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.10.96, 1996, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Explains how fully involving service users in the selection of new staff can have positive results for employment practice, with benefits to staff and their clients.