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What next?: a guide for the parents and carers of young people getting ready to leave school
- Author:
- MENCAP
- Publisher:
- Mencap
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 30p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A guide to the transition process for the parents and carers of young people with a learning disability getting ready to leave school in Northern Ireland.
Making it work: what you should know if the person you care for is considering employment
- Author:
- MENCAP
- Publisher:
- Mencap
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 28p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A guide for parents and carers of a person with a learning disability who is thinking about getting a job.
Making decisions gets the thumbs down from the National Forum
- Author:
- HOLMAN Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 16(1), 2002, pp.4-5.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The Lord Chancellor's Department consultation on Making Decisions has caused controversy among interested groups. Provides an update on recent developments.
Staying put: keeping the family home for adults with a learning disability
- Author:
- KING Nigel
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 8(3), March 2002, pp.9-13.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Valuing People reminds us that 60 percent of adults with learning disabilities are still living at home being supported by relatives. The author investigates how older carers could best use the family home in planning for the future and reviews the different arrangements families can put in place to ensure a son of daughter can continue to live at home.
Adult family placement schemes for older carers: perceptions of users, family carers, placement providers and social workers
- Authors:
- McCONKEY Roy, et al
- Publisher:
- Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 55p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report culminates from research undertaken into the feasibility of adult placement schemes in meeting the needs of older carers and their relatives with learning disabilities in Northern Ireland. This research was funded in part by a grant from the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities, as part of the GOLD (Growing Older with Learning Disabilities) Programme.
Carers of people with learning disabilities, and their experience of the 1995 Carers Act
- Authors:
- ROBINSON Carol, WILLIAMS Val
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 32(2), March 2002, pp.169-183.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This paper seeks to highlight the impact of the Carers (Recognition and Services) Act of 1995 on carers of people with learning disabilities. It draws on research conducted in the south west between 1997 and 1999, which examined the views and experiences of carers who had an assessment of their needs, together with those of the person they care for and the professional conducting the assessment. It concludes that the Carers Act is not widely used, or understood, by this group of carers. Recommendations for improving practice include changes to the current terminology, new triggers for a carer's needs assessment, and a greater input from other agencies, especially health services. Although the current paper focuses on the views and experiences of carers, an exploration of the Carers Act, and its effect on potential conflicts of interest with the person with learning disabilities, is available elsewhere.
Positive approaches to understanding and managing risk: a workbook to support the mandatory units of the Certificates in Working with People who have Learning Disabilities
- Author:
- BRADLEY Alice
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 75p.
- Place of publication:
- Plymouth
Includes legal obligations and rights on the part of carers to take risks in managing challenging behaviour and other problems. The book outlines policies and procedures for service providers, ethical and legal issues around physical intervention, and positive management techniques.
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.
Housing and support options for people with learning disabilities: draft
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health, GREAT BRITAIN. Department of the Deputy Prime Minister
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 43p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The guide is to help Partnership Boards write plans on ‘housing and support’. Partnership Boards have to write these plans by winter 2002/3. This guide has ideas to help them do this well. The ‘housing and support plans’ will give people with learning disabilities more choice about: where they live.who they live with.and who gives them support. Some of the different types of housing and support the guide talks about are: supported living, living in small ordinary houses, village communities,and living with family and relatives.