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The same as you?: a review of services for people with learning disabilities: a summary
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive. Social Work Services Inspectorate
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 2p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Information about The Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000, which provides ways to manage the financial and welfare affairs of people who are unable to manage them for themselves. Suitable for professionals and lay people.
Moving home: costs associated with different models of accommodation for adults with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- MYLES S., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 8(6), November 2000, pp.406-416.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This paper reports on variation in the cost and social outcomes of provision for clients with learning disabilities, resettled across different models of community accommodation; identifying personal and service-related characteristics influential on such variation. The study was conducted to inform the community reprovisioning strategy associated with the phased closure of the Gogarburn and Tornaveen learning disability hospitals in the Lothian region, Scotland. Total mean service costs, quality of life and community integration outcome data were collected and compared. Overall, there was an inverse relationship between total mean costs and size of accommodation. There was no evidence of a direct relationship between costs and changes in social outcomes. Services with the lowest mean costs were, however, associated with the smallest increases in social outcomes. The most expensive services did not realise proportionally greater gains in social outcomes. The paper concludes that clients generally benefited from the transition from hospital to community accommodation. However, some experienced better outcomes than others. In the absence of a clear link between levels and type of resource use and social outcomes, it is difficult to identify which service features are more or less efficacious in achieving positive outcomes. Broader evaluation perspectives, embracing a fuller range of costs and benefits, will be required to unpack exactly what it is about different models of community care provision that leads to positive outcomes, or otherwise, for learning disability clients. A more sound evidence base is required before effective strategies can be designed to ensure that key policy outcomes are realised and social integration truly achieved.
Time to raise standards: part 2
- Author:
- McCURRY Patrick
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 10.8.00, 2000, p.27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
This article looks at the review of services for learning difficulties in Scotland and finds some radical proposals that may mean services will look different to those south of the border.
'Help me out, help me in': reprovisioning, resettlement and the scope for social inclusion in Scotland
- Author:
- SCOTTISH HOMES
- Publisher:
- Scottish Homes
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Study of resettlement in the community from long-stay hospitals, and the extent to which it has promoted inclusion
Council tax in Scotland: a guide for people who have special needs and their carers
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Nurse networks in learning disability
- Authors:
- BROWN Michael, MOORE Gordon
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 12.10.00, 2000, p.40.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Describes community learning disability nursing networks in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Impact of group training on emotion recognition in individuals with a learning disability
- Authors:
- MCKENZIE Karen, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 28(4), December 2000, pp.143-147.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The present paper outlines the impact of group training on the emotion recognition of six individuals with a moderate learning disability. The accuracy of identifying emotions depicted by line drawings and photographs with and without an emotional context was examined before and after group training. The results indicated that there was a significant overall increase in accuracy in identifying emotions following group training. In addition, a significant increase was found in the ability to correctly label emotions depicted by line drawings typically used in symbol-based communication systems. The implications of the results are discussed.
Welfare for those who can?: the impact of the quasi-market on the lives of people with learning difficulties
- Authors:
- WILSON Alastair, RIDDELL Sheila, BARON Stephen
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 20(4), November 2000, pp.479-502.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article, drawing on the research findings from the ESRC-funded project "The Meaning of the Learning Society for Adults with Learning Difficulties" explores how the introduction of the 1990 NHS and Community Care Act, with its emphasis on the establishment of a "mixed economy" in social care has affected the lives of people with learning difficulties living in a rural area of Scotland. The impact of the quasi-market, in particular the purchaser/provider split and the operation of contracts, on the lives of three adults with learning difficulties is examined.
Diversion, a hidden hazard?
- Authors:
- CREAMER Anne, SIMPSON Murray
- Journal article citation:
- SCOLAG Journal, 277, November 2000, pp.8-10.
- Publisher:
- ScoLAG(Scottish Legal Action Group)
Discusses the policy of diverting people with learning difficulties from the formal criminal justice process unless it is not in the public interest to do so. This article looks at diversion policy, highlights some of the dilemmas it poses and asks whether it is always in the individuals best interest.