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The HARC challenging behaviour project: report 5: the treatment and management of challenging behaviour
- Authors:
- EMERSON Eric, et al
- Publisher:
- University of Manchester. Hester Adrian Research Centre
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 33p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
In 1994 the Department of Health commissioned the Hester Adrian Research Centre at the University of Manchester and the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York to undertake a series of projects to investigate aspects of challenging behaviour shown by people with learning disability. These projects extended workv previously undertaken at the Hester Adrian Research Centre. In particular they built upon a study of the prevaence of challenging behaviour in the areas served by seven District Health Authorities in the North West of England in 1988.
Future demand for residential provision for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- PARROTT Richard
- Publisher:
- University of Manchester. Hester Adrian Research Centre
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 26p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Approximately ,2,000 million per year is spent by Local Authorities and the NHS and in England to support people with learning disabilities. A significant proportion of these resources are devoted to providing residential supports. Given such a level of investment, it is clearly prudent for Local Authorities and Health Authorities to closely monitor: the value or outcomes associated with current investment; and the current and future match between supply and demand. Work recently commissioned by the Department of Health has summarised current knowledge relating to the quality and costs of different approaches to providing residential supports for people with learning disabilities. This review also highlighted concerns regarding an apparent shortfall in current provision and drew attention to the possibility of a future increase in the need (and demand) for residential supports.
Hearing their voice
- Author:
- PHILPOT Terry
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.9.97, 1997, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Canadians' attempts to improve the criminal justice system for people with learning difficulties is widely regarded as groundbreaking. The author discusses the changes and finds that while the UK has much to learn, not all of the early hopes of the Canadians have been fulfilled.
Sheltered employment in five member states of the Council of Europe: Austria, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland
- Authors:
- SAMOY Erik, WATERPLAS Lina
- Publisher:
- Council of Europe
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 67p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Strasbourg
Comparative study looking at the situation of sheltered employment in the twelve Member States of the European Union. The data for each country is grouped under the following headings: institutional context; target population; access to sheltered employment; characteristics of the people in sheltered employment; and a discussion of the topics currently under debate around sheltered employment in each country.
Advocacy in the UK
- Authors:
- SIM Allan J., MACKAY Rob
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 9(2), 1997, pp.5-12.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Considers advocacy in the United Kingdom and seeks to illuminate the position currently experienced by advocates and their clients through the use of data recovered from research in the North East of Scotland.
A comparative approach to evaluating individual planning for people with learning disabilities: challenging the assumptions
- Author:
- CARNABY Steven
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 12(3), June 1997, pp.381-394.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Individual planning in services for people with learning disabilities is used on the assumption that it encourages service users across a range of abilities to make important decisions about their lives. Although recent studies have questioned the value and effectiveness of such processes, the principles underlying the practice of individual planning are rarely challenged. This article considers important aspects of individual planning in London, comparing a system based on the principles of normalisation with a situation-specific, family-orientated system operating in Milan, Italy. Key factors such as the role of professionals and the involvement of service users are considered with the aims of the process.
Dimensions of learning disability
- Editors:
- GATES Bob, PEACOCK Colin
- Publisher:
- Bailliere Tindall
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 394p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Focuses on the health aspects of services for people with learning difficulties, and on the role nurses have to play within this. Contains sections on: the nature of learning disability; health and learning disability; educational dimensions; biological dimensions; psychosocial dimensions; cultural and spiritual aspects; political and economic dimensions; national and international issues; and contemporary and new horizons in learning disability research.