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When the eagles fly: a report on resettlement of people with learning difficulties from long-stay institutions
- Author:
- COLLINS Jean
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 52p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
A critique of the progress being made in moving people with learning difficulties into the community.
Of black bags and ordinary lives
- Author:
- COLLINS Jean
- Journal article citation:
- Focus, May 1994, pp.2-8.
- Publisher:
- RNIB
The development of community care as a replacement for institutional care has revolutionised the lives of thousands of people with learning difficulties. Looks at the needs of people with visual and learning disabilities who are waiting to leave mental handicap hospitals.
Integration or sanctuary?
- Authors:
- HARKER David, COLLINS Jean
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 23.1.97, 1997, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
In recent years it has been the accepted wisdom that people with learning difficulties benefit from living in the community. But how do we know this is the best solution? The authors debate the merits of institutions and village communities versus care in the community.
The isolation of 'villages'
- Author:
- COLLINS Jean
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 3(1), September 1996, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
The author, Director of Values into Action, describes the findings of the recent report, which rejects the notion that village communities are cost effective. Stresses that people with learning difficulties have the right to live non-institutionalised lives in the community, and that transforming of mental handicap hospitals into village communities would amount to little more that the erection of new signboards.
What's choice got to do with it: a study of housing and support for people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- COLLINS Jean
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 47p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Research study looking at recent developments in services for people with learning difficulties, which mean that services are independent of housing. These separate arrangements are supposed to give people greater choice and independence, but it could be argued that housing and support need to be inter-related if people are to enjoy a 'seamless' service. The study looks at 11 housing and support services and concludes that service values rather than contract specifications and purchase arrangements actually have most impact on people's daily lives.
Living difficulties
- Author:
- COLLINS Jean
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.5.95, 1995, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Recently Rescare, the National Society for Mentally Handicapped People in Residential Care launched a campaign supporting village communities. Argues that people with learning difficulties should be helped to live in the community rather than segregated in groups.
Free from care
- Author:
- COLLINS Jean
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.11.93, 1993, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Research by the author shows that community care for people with learning difficulties is often blocked by NHS trusts and staff. It was found that even when people manage to leave long-stay hospitals their new housing and support is often controlled and owned by an NHS Trust - which means going into housing replicating the group home model because it is easier operate a standard formula than respond to the individual needs. Difficulties also arise due to conflict of interest between purchasers in health authorities and provider trusts. Discusses the issues involved in resettlement of people with learning difficulties.
The resettlement game: policy and procrastination in the closure of mental handicap hospitals
- Author:
- COLLINS Jean
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 111p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report looking at the closure of mental handicap hospitals. Describes the problems facing people waiting to be moved out and discusses how new homes being provided in the community do not always provide people with the kind of life they want.
Changing places
- Author:
- COLLINS Jean
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.6.92, 1992, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Relates research which has found community care for people with learning difficulties to be piecemeal, slow and lacking in trust and co-ordination between SSDs and the NHS.
Still to be settled: strategies for the resettlement of people from mental handicap hospitals
- Author:
- COLLINS Jean
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 56p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Provides examples of good practice and points to a number of ways forward in advancing service design and expectations for people with learning difficulties who are moved from mental handicap hospitals to the community. Contains chapters on: good practice; financial transfers; the process of resettlement; management and staffing; and designs for living.