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Demonstrating control of decisions by adults with learning difficulties who have high support needs
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Speaking for themselves
- Author:
- PERRY Joanna
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 8(1), September 2001, pp.10-14.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
The VIA Advocacy Project is funded by the Department of Health to distribute money set aside for the development of self-advocacy groups in the Valuing People White Paper. The author explains the aims of the new project, the history of self-advocacy, and the need for further development.
Under scrutiny
- Author:
- TICKNER Marilyn
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, February 2001, p.7.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Evaluates the Mental Health Act White Paper in terms of its benefits to adults with learning difficulties.
Deciding together: getting control of my life
- Authors:
- AITCHISON Jill, PEREZ Wendy
- Publisher:
- Institute for Applied Health and Social Policy,|University of London. King's Col
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 32p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The government's policy on services for learning difficulties is set out in the publication 'Valuing people'. To assist managers plan services the government has produced the accompanying book 'Deciding together'. This publication 'Deciding together: getting control of my life' is produced for people with learning disabilities and explains what is in the management publication.
This time next year
- Author:
- MUNRO Robert
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 29.11.01, 2001, p.14.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
After unfounded allegations of abuse at a pioneering learning disabilities unit, staff morale plummeted. Finds out what went wrong and what the future holds for service and those who run it.
Normalisation emancipatory research and inclusive research in learning disability
- Author:
- WALMSLEY Jan
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 16(2), March 2001, pp.187-205.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article traces the influence of two major sets of ideas: normalisation/srv, and the social model of disability on inclusive research in learning disability. The argument is that normalisation set the agenda for learning disability research for two or more decades. Inclusive researchers continue to apply normalisation thinking to work with people with learning difficulties, particularly in assuming the role of advocate. Latterly, a number of researchers have tried to rise to the challenges posed by emancipatory research, particularly in attempting to find ways to put people with learning difficulties in control. Whilst some ideas from emancipatory research have been applied in learning disability, there are debates in the disability literature that have not been addressed in learning disability research to date. The result is that inclusive research in learning disability is in danger of being marginalised, both in the context of disability studies and in the context of the broad sweep of learning disability research.
More than one wavelength: identifying, understanding and resolving conflicts of interest between people with intellectual disabilities and their family carers
- Authors:
- WILLIAMS V., ROBINSON C.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 14(1), 2001, pp.30-46.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article describes conflicts of interest in families which include someone with intellectual disabilities. Data were taken from a study concerned with the 1995 Carers Act. The research examined the experiences and views of 51 families who had some kind of assessment by a social services department. Cases were analysed where it was found that carers, the people for whom they cared and the assessors did not agree about such conflicts. Argues that assessors sometimes stereotyped families and spoke of conflicts of interest when the situation was more complex. In particular, the real conflict was often between the whole family and an inadequate service system that did not offer enough support or choices to the individual. Conflicts were related to three major motives driving carers: the need for a break from caring; the need to speak for their disabled relative; and their concern for standards of behaviour. The present authors report on how these situations were handled by assessors and conclude with some recommendations for good carer assessments which will help to resolve conflicts of interest. Concludes that a greater degree of informed choice for individuals with intellectual disabilities will in itself resolve many potential conflicts of interest. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper accepted September 2000
Listening to the views, wishes and feelings of disabled children and young people in the Quality Protects era
- Author:
- KHAN John
- Publisher:
- Council for Disabled Children
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 41p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Real consultation with children and young people with communication or learning disabilities still poses major challenges for professionals. It has been demonstrated that communication is possible, indeed essential, even when children have complex communication difficulties. Consultation with children and young people should not be viewed as an optional extra, but as an integral aspect where services impact on the lives of young people. As part of the Quality Protects programme the Council for Disabled Children has been working closely with numerous local authorities to find ways of involving disabled children and young people, not in only in their own statutory care reviews, but also in the development of the services they receive.
Learning difficulties and ethnicity
- Authors:
- MIR Ghazal, NOCON Andrew, AHMAD Waqar
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 76p.,bibiog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Minority ethnic communities face substantial inequalities and discrimination in employment, education, health and social services. People with learning difficulties from minority ethnic communities experience simultaneous disadvantage in relation to race, impairment and for women, gender. Negative stereotypes and attitudes held by service professionals contribute to the disadvantage they face.
Learning difficulties and ethnicity:summary version
- Authors:
- MIR Ghazal, NOCON Andrew, AHMAD Waqar
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 9p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Minority ethnic communities face substantial inequalities and discrimination in employment, education, health and social services. People with learning difficulties from minority ethnic communities experience simultaneous disadvantage in relation to race, impairment and for women, gender. Negative stereotypes and attitudes held by service professionals contribute to the disadvantage they face.