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Excluded from inclusion?
- Author:
- GREIG Rob
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.2.99, 1999, pp.2-3.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author argues that people with learning difficulties are missing out on the new health and social policy agenda because of policy-makers' over-emphasis on access to mainstream services.
Little voice, big issues
- Author:
- RUSSELL Oliver
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.2.99, 1999, p.1.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how the voices of people with learning difficulties are at last being heard and at how the result could be a revolution in service provision.
"Like the secret service isn't it". People with learning difficulties', perceptions of staff and services: mystification and disempowerment
- Author:
- GOBLE Colin
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 14(4), July 1999, pp.449-461.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Seven people with learning difficulties were interviewed about their perceptions of staff in services they use. Three major themes emerged, which were perceptions relating to the physical presence and absence of staff; the emotional impact of interactions with staff; and the political impact of interactions with staff. It was found that the participants had only superficial knowledge of staff identities and roles, and of service systems and structures, and consequently lack the knowledge and awareness necessary to negotiate what these roles might be, or even that negotiation might be possible. The findings are discussed in relation to a developmental model of empowerment, and empowerment issues generally.
Give us paid work and stop labelling us
- Author:
- WILLIAMS Val
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.2.99, 1999, pp.4-5.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author interviews member of the Bristol Self-Advocacy Research Group to find out what they felt about services.
People with learning difficulties and their access to direct payments schemes
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The Community Care (Direct Payments) Act 1996 came into force on 1 April 1997. It empowers local authorities to make cash payments to people, so they can purchase their own support services, instead of arranging community care services for them. However, recent research has found that few people with learning difficulties know anything about direct payments. Describes an information programme that set out to inform as many people with learning difficulties as possible about direct payments. A second part of the projectlooked at the progress people have made in their attempts to gain a direct payment. Outlines the findings of the project.
Navigating paradox: reflections on facilitating self-advocacy for people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- ILES I. K.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities for Nursing Health and Social Care, 3(3), 1999, pp.163-167.
It is quite usual for people with learning difficulties in self-advocacy groups to be supported by non-disabled staff of one sort or another. There is a wide range of literature detailing issues relevant to the practice of supporting such groups that can be drawn upon by staff to inform their practice. This article suggests that there needs to be a more critical engagement with the experimental of working in this field and that group facilitators need to be critically-reflecting on their practice in this area as well as reading about it. Argues that through the dialectic accounts generated as a result of engaging with questions of the kind 'How do I improve this process of self-advocacy here?' that workers in this field are creating living theories of practice.
Involving service users in professional nurse education in Wales
- Authors:
- FISHER M., COYLE D.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities for Nursing Health and Social Care, 3(4), December 1999, pp.209-213.
Reports on a small scale survey was conducted among nurse educationalists within Wales. This survey showed that there has been very little service user involvement in professional nurse education in Wales. The authors discuss the possible reasons for such low level involvement. Looks at the history of service user involvement and the development of advocacy both within the UK and other countries and the impact of various government initiatives on the situation.
Parents together: action research and advocacy support for parents with learning difficulties
- Authors:
- BOOTH Tim, BOOTH Wendy
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 7(6), November 1999, pp.464-474.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Describes the work of Parents Together, a pioneering action research project that set out to support parents with learning difficulties in ways that were non-stigmatising, non-intrusive and responsive to their perceptions of their own needs. Based on an explicit model of parenting and social support, Parents Together used an advocacy approach to challenge discriminatory views of parents' competence and to lighten the load on families by reducing the environmental pressures that undermined them. Concludes by drawing out the wider lessons of the project for policy and practice.
Advocacy at the crossroads?
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 12(4), April 1999, pp.2-3.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Looks at why advocacy is once again on the political agenda and argues that clarity is urgently needed on its future direction.
Learning disability and advocacy: obstacles to client empowerment
- Author:
- JACKSON R.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities for Nursing Health and Social Care, 3(1), March 1999, pp.50-55.
Citizen Advocacy, with its aim to empower, has the potential to transform the lives of people with learning disabilities, but an inevitable consequence of client empowerment is professional disempowerment. Professional workers are unlikely to relinquish power, control and influence without some resistance. This article seeks to show there are a number of ways for statutory agencies to neutralise the effect of citizen advocacy.