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Two steps forward
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.11.93, 1993, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
This week the National Development Team (NDT) was relaunched as an independent agency. Discusses what existing services are available for people with learning difficulties and identifies the role that the NDT will have in establishing policy to support people with learning difficulties.
Involve Me
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Viewpoint, 124, September 2011, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Mencap/Gateway
Involve Me is a 3-year project on increasing the involvement of people with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) in decision-making, through supporting people to make personal decisions and influencing decision-makers. It looked at decision-making at 4 levels: personal decisions in everyday life, decisions about the immediate environment (such as in a group home), community decisions and national decisions. The findings of the Mencap and British Institute of Learning Disabilities project have been used to produce recommendations and resources for those involved with services for people with PMLD, including a practical guide to involving people with PMLD. This article describes the project and its key activities (including sharing stories, creative communication, multimedia advocacy and peer advocacy) and key messages. It includes a brief case study.
Towards race equality in advocacy services: people with learning disabilities from black and minority ethnic communities
- Authors:
- FULTON Rorie, RICHARDSON Kate
- Publisher:
- Race Equality Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 6p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
People with learning disabilities from black and minority ethnic communities are a particularly vulnerable group often cut off from public services and support. This briefing paper sets out the arguments for providing appropriate and effective advocacy services for people with learning disabilities from black and minority ethnic communities, and considers the challenges that advocacy service providers must confront if they are to offer support to this group. The paper looks at discrimination, advocacy, cultural knowledge, and language needs. The paper explains that people with learning disabilities from black and minority ethnic communities face ‘double discrimination’ in accessing public services. It argues that the concept of advocacy is itself problematic as it may not be widely or fully understood or easily translatable for many black and minority ethnic communities. Developing cultural knowledge is crucial in working towards race equality in advocacy services, so that the advocacy practitioner is able to respond appropriately and constructively to a black and minority ethnic client’s experience of racism. In order to promote full and equal access to public services, it is essential to meet the language requirements of those black and minority ethnic individuals who need to use advocacy services.
Planning an advocacy service
- Author:
- POPE Julie Stevens
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 15(3), 2002, pp.11-12.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Provides an account of putting together a service specification for an advocacy services for people with learning difficulties. Provides an account of the work that was undertaken, the outcomes and the achievements. The project demonstrates how service users can work alongside professionals and play a significant role in the development of services.
The Scottish Translation, Interpreting and Communication Forum: good practice guidelines 2002
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive. Scottish Translation Interpreting and communication Forum
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 36p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Speaking up
- Author:
- EUSTACE Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 10.01.02, 2002, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on a study that analysed the workings of a local advocacy project and evaluated its success.
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.
Let them speak
- Author:
- BOND Henrietta
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.8.00, 2000, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The quality of life of people with learning difficulties could be improved by extending their right to make choices, says a recent report. This article reports on some projects in which workers use new skills to help clients communicate.
Advocacy for parents with learning difficulties: developing advocacy support
- Authors:
- BOOTH Wendy, BOOTH Tim
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 79p.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Describes the work of Parents Together, a pioneering action research project, which set out to support parents with learning difficulties in ways that were non stigmatising, non intrusive, and responsive to their own experience. Used an advocacy approach to challenge discriminatory views of parents' competence and lighten the load on families by reducing the environmental pressures that undermined them. Combines a full account and evaluation of the project with detailed practice guidance.
Current challenges to the quality of social care services with people with intellectual disabilities in the UK
- Author:
- JACKSON Robin
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 28(1), 2010, pp.17-27.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
As the effects of the financial recession begin to bite, there is a danger that the quality of social care provision for children, young people and adults with intellectual disability in the UK will significantly decline. As the provision of social care services are being increasing opened up to market forces there is a danger that the ‘not for profit’ organisations may be squeezed out, leaving commercial companies to dominate the market. In 2009 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) took over responsibility for adult social care and health care, leading to concerns about its ability to balance both its health and social care responsibilities and effectively monitor developments in the social care field. This article explores some of the factors contributing to this anticipated deterioration of social care provision: the commercialisation of social care; the expansion of the ‘for profit’ private sector at the expense of the ‘not for profit’ voluntary sector; the uncertainties occasioned by frequent changes in regulatory structures; the move to self-regulation of care services; and the neutering of the power and influence of advocacy services.