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Making it work: a guide to employing people with a learning disability
- Author:
- MENCAP
- Publisher:
- Mencap
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 44p.
- Place of publication:
- London
There are clear benefits in having a diverse workforce. Good practice in ensuring that all applicants, regardless of their disability, are considered for employment, results in the appointment of the best person for the job. However, there are particular benefits that people with a learning disability bring to a workplace: positive corporate image, good business, reduced staff turnover, promoting social inclusion, access to an untapped pool of labour, and improved staff attendance.
Action for health: health action plans and health facilitation: detailed good practice guidance on implementation for learning disability partnership boards
- Authors:
- RODGERS Jackie, et al
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 73p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This good practice guidance explains how people can be supported to access the health care they need from both primary care and other NHS services. It shows how personal health action plans can help to improve the health of all people with learning disabilities.
My life: a person-centred approach to checking outcomes for people with learning difficulties
- Authors:
- CATTERMOLE Martin, BLUNDEN Roger
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 79p.
- Place of publication:
- Plymouth
Enables the user and carer to: find out about the quality of a person's life; assess and improve the quality of services run by a single organisation; take an overview of what life is really like for people with learning disabilities who use services; and to inform individual planning.
Using my life: a guide to conducting a Quality Network review
- Authors:
- CATTERMOLE Martin, et al
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 101p.
- Place of publication:
- Plymouth
This guide has been written to help people undertake a Quality Network Review. It is a guide to the resource material in 'My life: a person centred approach to checking outcomes for people with learning disabilities.
Making the jump: transition to work; a guide to supporting adults with learning difficulties make the jump from education to employment
- Author:
- JACOBSEN Yola
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Adult Continuing Education
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 136p.
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
The “Making the Jump” project is about how people with learning difficulties can move on from courses and training for work to actually getting a job. During the project the NIACE project workers visited colleges, adult education centres, supported employment organisations and self-advocacy organisations. Where people with learning difficulties were being helped to make the jump to work, different organisations like colleges and supported employment agencies worked together to make this happen.
Resource pack for carers of adults with Down's Syndrome and dementia
- Authors:
- DODD Karen, TURK Vicky, CHRISTMAS Michelle
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 146p.
- Place of publication:
- Kidderminster
People with Down's syndrome are far more likely to develop dementia than the general population, and at a younger age - the average age of dementia onset is just 52 years, with death likely to occur within just six years . This new resource for family carers, staff and other professionals supporting people with Down syndrome, to help them with practical day to day issues, including: supporting a person to maintain skills and independence as long as possible; treating treatable conditions; understanding and responding appropriately to changes in behaviour, at early, middle and late stages of dementia; providing emotional reassurance for carers; improving the confidence of carers to look after individuals; iIdentifying local supports and resources; and being open to the problems that may arise, and help with tips and solutions to cope.
Let's make it happen: the national service framework for older people; a briefing and local action plan for staff, volunteers and supporters of the Alzheimer's Society
- Author:
- ALZHEIMER'S SOCIETY
- Publisher:
- Alzheimer's Society
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 40p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The National Service Framework for Older People (NSF), outlines the government’s ten year strategy to provide comprehensive, integrated and high quality health and social care services for older people in England. It also includes the needs of younger people with dementia. Its success depends on how well it is implemented across the country. This document has been written to help branches of the Alzheimer’s Society to get involved in implementing the NSF in their area.
Include us too: developing and improving services to meet the mental health needs of people with learning disabilities; a workbook for commissioners and managers in mental health and learning disability services
- Author:
- COLE Angela
- Publisher:
- University of London. King's College. Institute for Applied Health and Social Po
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 71p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This workbook is for commissioners and managers in mental health and learning disability services. It is about helping people with learning disabilities to maintain good mental health or to have a good lifestyle and good support if they have mental health problems. It is about what commissioners and managers can do to secure positive outcomes for people, outcomes indicated in national policy documents like the National Service Framework for Mental Health, in Valuing People (the White Paper on learning disability service) and in Joint Investment Planning Initiatives.