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A foot in the door: the early years of supported living for people with learning difficulties in the UK
- Authors:
- SIMONS Ken, WARD Linda
- Publisher:
- National Development Team
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 158p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Reviews the experience of developing supported living in the UK, focusing in particular on the supported living programme set up by the National Development Team. Explores the principles of supported living, describes how these principles have been put into practice, outlines some of the barriers encountered during the development of supported living, and discusses the strategic implications of making supported living more widely available.
Residential care, or housing and support?
- Author:
- SIMONS Ken
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 25(1), 1997, pp.2-6.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Until recently the place in which people with learning difficulties live, and the kind of support they would expect to get there, have been bound up with each other. This article discusses the possibility that separating out the two elements of housing and support, both in conceptual and organisational terms, may provide a contribution to continued improvement for life for people with learning disabilities who need somewhere to live.