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The role and function of the domiciliary community nurse for people with a learning disability
- Author:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF NURSING
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Nursing
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 31p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Mental handicap in the community
- Editor:
- LEIGHTON Alan
- Publisher:
- Woodhead Faulkner
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 233p., bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
Overview of the services necessary for successful community care of mentally handicapped children and adults.
Community care for mentally handicapped children
- Authors:
- ABBOTT Pamela, SAPSFORD Roger
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 1987
- Pagination:
- 83p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Milton Keynes
The end of an institution?
- Author:
- SMITH Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Soundtrack, 9, February 1997, p.4.
- Publisher:
- National Development Team
Ely Hospital has been subject to a public enquiry which revealed widespread abuse and neglect of people with learning disabilities. The author looks towards the future, and towards the hospital's closure.
Freedom to budget
- Author:
- COHEN Phil
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 16.5.91, 1991, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Reports on the work of the East Suffolk Project run by the Children's Society in conjunction with Suffolk Social Services Department and Suffolk Health Authority. The service for children with learning difficulties has a flexicare devolved budget administered by a social worker.
Dundee residential project: the first two years
- Author:
- HUGHES Mike
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 32p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Dundee
Study tracing the early history and describing the first 2 years of a community care project for children and young people with a mental handicap. Examines the expectations families have of staff, and the characteristics of the young people who were referred for consideration.
Community based rehabilitation for the mentally handicapped - a model
- Author:
- NARAYAN S.
- Journal article citation:
- Indian Journal of Social Work, 1(1), January 1990, pp.157-164.
- Publisher:
- Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Suggests a model of care in the community for children with a mental handicap to replace institutional care.
The economic costs of a normal life: the case of Dr.Barnardo's Intensive Support Unit
- Authors:
- SHIELL A., WRIGHT K.
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap Research, 1(1), 1988, pp.91-101.
- Publisher:
- BIMH Publications
Barnardo's Intensive Support Unit is a residential unit on a housing estate which accommodates children with severe handicaps with a view to finding foster homes for them. Compares the cost with that of an NHS Unit.
Where do we go from here?
- Author:
- JERVIS Margaret
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 5.1.87, 1987, p.10.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Special schools have responded well to the task of educating children with severe learning difficulties. These children are now moving out of schools in ever increasing numbers to face diminished opportunities in the community.
Moving forward
- Author:
- RANGE Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, March 2001, pp.17-18.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Head of Telecare at Motion Media, designers of video communications technologies, reports on the prospects for virtual social care in the community.