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A taste of life in the community
- Author:
- EATON L.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 10.11.88, 1988, p.7.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Looks at how Somerset SSD is gradually taking complete responsibility for services to the mentally handicapped.
Rise to the challenge
- Author:
- BOND Henrietta
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.10.97, 1997, p.28.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Discusses how people with learning difficulties and challenging behaviour need not be 'a danger to society' if they are properly supported in the community.
Competition or co-operation?
- Authors:
- CUMMINGS Elspeth, JAYES Paul, McGINNIS Brian
- Journal article citation:
- Management Issues in Social Care, 2(4), 1995, pp.8-13.
- Publisher:
- OLM Systems
An account of a fringe meeting on multi-agency working for clients with learning difficulties, at the Social Services Conference at Bournemouth, on September 21st 1995.
Joint commissioning of services for people with learning disabilities: a review of the principles and the practice
- Author:
- WADDINGTON Paul
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 23(1), 1995, pp.2-10.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The aim of the article is to enhance practitioner understanding of the potentials and problems of joint commissioning. Discusses principles, the implications for learning disability services and provides examples of joint commissioning practice.
Diverse options
- Author:
- TURNBULL John
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 2.6.93, 1993, pp.62-63.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
What will be the role of the learning disability nurse in the wake of the community care reforms? Considers two different approaches - the Somerset SSD/HA strategy which put social services in the lead agency role in services for people with learning difficulties, and services provided in Gwent under the All Wales Strategy.
Person to person
- Author:
- DUFFY Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 23.4.92, 1992, p.25.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
The Southwark Consortium manages delivery of care to people with mental disabilities and is responsible for all service contracts in the area; describes the structure which has been designed to ensure individual service.
Blazing a trail to flexible care
- Author:
- JERVIS M.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 3.11.88, 1988, p.9.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Reports on a community care project in Leeds : the lead role taken by a voluntary organisation, with Health Authority and Social Services input, providing community housing targeted towards single homeless and mentally handicapped people - very much as envisaged by the Griffiths Report.
Setting the wheels in motion
- Author:
- FRANCIS William
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.8.87, 1987, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at Somerset SSD's preparation for care in the community, which involves 'taking over' from the local Health Authority.
Making services mesh
- Author:
- FRANCIS William
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.8.87, 1987, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at Hillingdon SSD and HA who have merged services for the mentally handicapped.
A duty to care
- Author:
- ASHTON Karen
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 13(2), October 1999, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The courts have ruled that local and health authorities have a duty to provide after care services for people detained under certain sections of the Mental Health Act and that it is illegal to charge for such services. The ruling followed a court case involving four service users and four different local authorities. Discusses the implications of this ruling for people with learning difficulties.