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Deciding together: working with people with learning disabilities to plan services and support
- Author:
- AITCHISON Jill
- Publisher:
- University of London. King's College. Institute for Applied Health and Social Po
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 160p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Valuing People, the learning disabilities White Paper, promised advice on how organisations can better involve people with learning disabilities in decision making that affects their lives. Deciding Together is that advice. Based on the evidence of successful development work from across the country, it introduces strategies, suggestions and practical ideas for managers and those responsible for ensuring that their organisations adapt to working in a manner which truly promotes and encourages engagement.
Getting control of my life: deciding together
- Authors:
- AITCHISON Jill, PEREZ Wendy
- Publisher:
- University of London. King's College. Institute for Applied Health and Social Po
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 32p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This booklet is aimed at people with learning difficulties and explains what is in the more detailed book designed for managers which provides information and advice on how organisations can better involve people with learning disabilities in decision making that affects their lives. Based on the evidence of successful development work from across the country, it introduces strategies, suggestions and practical ideas for managers and those responsible for ensuring that their organisations adapt to working in a manner which promotes and encourages engagement. By 'engagement' the authors mean managers, staff and people with learning difficulties working together to take decisions about planning people's services and support. Includes examples of good practice.
Key considerations
- Author:
- WELLARD Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.6.01, May 2001, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The government white paper on learning difficulties promises that service users have more choice about where they live, but are local authorities ready for the challenge. Looks at existing provision and how services may develop.
Demonstrating control of decisions by adults with learning difficulties who have high support needs
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Choice and control are at the heart of developments for people with learning difficulties. The recent White Paper, Valuing people: A new strategy for learning disability for the 21st century, acknowledges this in its key principles. People with high support needs (who may be labelled as having severe or profound learning difficulties and may also have physical and sensory impairments) may find themselves excluded from these developments. Research by Values Into Action investigated how decision-making can be supported and demonstrated.
Room to move: a book for parents of young people with learning disabilities leaving home
- Author:
- COWEN Alison
- Publisher:
- Pavilion,|Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 114p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Leaving home is a rite of passage which most young people take for granted. For young people with learning disabilities, the decision to leave home usually has to be taken in a more carefully planned way. The book looks at the practical and emotional issues involved when a young person leaves home to live independently of their family. The book draws on the experiences of parents and young people, showing how they cope during and after the move. There are practical tips for parents and also views from the people who are the focus of the book, the young people themselves.
Who's in control: decision-making by people with learning difficulties who have high support needs
- Author:
- EDGE James
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 56p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Drawing on 18 months of research with people who have high support needs, VIA demonstrates how all people with learning difficulties can be enabled to be in control of their lives and how it can be demonstrated that those with higher support needs are indeed in control.
Relinquishment for adoption of babies with down's syndrome: parent's response to the diagnosis and the role of health professionals
- Authors:
- DUMARET Annick-Camille, ROSSET Dominique
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption and Fostering, 25(2), Summer 2001, pp.49-55.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Presents a synthesis of research findings based on a study conducted in France between 1990 and 1996. The project aimed to establish a clearer understanding of what infants with Down's Syndrome were given up for adoption, to evaluate the extent of the phenomenon and its evolution over the long term. It also analysed the impact of the diagnosis on the parents' decision about whether to keep the baby or not and highlighted the determining factors in babies being given up for adoption.
Benefit groups and resource groups for adults with intellectual disabilities in residential accommodation
- Authors:
- COMAS-HERRERA Adelina, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 14(2), 2001, pp.120-140.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Examines whether 'benefit groups' and 'resource groups' can be developed so as to assist decision-making processes in service commissioning by using a survey of the characteristics of 2093 adults with intellectual disabilities (IDs) in residential accommodation (mainly National Health Service trusts), and a supplementary collection of data on service utilization and costs (for a subsample of 930 clients). The clients were classified, according to their needs into benefit groups (BGs), and the services which they used were classified in terms of coherence as likely packages of care and similar consumption of resources as resource groups (RGs). It proved possible to construct nine BGs and 96 possible RGs which had both intuitive meaning and explanatory power. Statistical analysis showed that the resulting BGs and RGs are meaningful ways of classifying ID and challenging behaviour needs and costs.
Creating more choice for people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Government policies across the UK challenge service providers to make sure that people with learning difficulties are central to planning the services that affect them. 'Helping Each Other For A Better World' is a consultancy team of six people with learning difficulties. They visited five places in England and Wales where new things were happening for people with learning difficulties during the day to find out what had changed and how change had happened.
A clear voice, a clear vision: the advocacy reader
- Editors:
- MULLINS Gillian, WOOD Patrick
- Publisher:
- UK Advocacy Network
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 93p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Sheffield
Advocacy is important to people with a wide range of problems and the experiences of advocacy are reflected in a variety of settings. This report describes some of the most important issues concerned in the establishment and successful running of advocacy projects as well as the principles involved and standards of good practice. Contents include: advocacy and the Mental Health Act; consideration in advocacy provision; advocacy in different situations; running the advocacy project; standing together; employees and volunteers.