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Whose hands are on their money
- Author:
- BEWLEY Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, July 1997, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
A striking feature of the lives of many people with learning difficulties is their poverty, even when they have money in their own names. Whether they have a large inheritance, are employed or live on benefits, people with learning difficulties are regularly denied the right to use their own money as they would wish. The author reports on findings of research which gathers together the experiences of people with learning difficulties across the UK.
Partnership working between university researchers and self-advocacy organizations; 'a way forward for inclusion?’ in England and ‘Fine feathers make a fine bird’ in Flanders
- Authors:
- SCHOETERS Ludo, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 9(4), December 2005, pp.345-357.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Place of publication:
- London
This article gives accounts of differing experiences of self-advocate partnerships in research with universities in England and Flanders. In England the partnership grew up within a local People First group built upon a personal working relationship with one support person. It is focused almost exclusively on empirical research and, because it is aimed at influencing policy and practice, questions of funding and control are to the fore. In Flanders the partnership is closely linked with the development of a national movement of self-advocates in which the university was a close ally. Research is important in both contexts but in Flanders the university is more clearly identified with the wider movement. Partnerships have their ups and downs but in both countries researchers with the label ‘learning difficulties’ wish to set their own agendas and place great importance on trust in their work with their support worker (England) or ally (Flanders).
Advocacy and people with learning disabilities in the UK : how can local funders find value for money?
- Author:
- RAPAPORT Joan
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 9(4), December 2005, pp.299-319.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Place of publication:
- London
Advocacy schemes have been established throughout the United Kingdom (UK) but their evaluation by funders is varied. This article reviews the literature in respect of models of evaluation of advocacy schemes for people with learning disability. It discusses the six main models and the issues that arise in evaluation. The advantages and disadvantages of each model are analysed. The article concludes that whilst fears exist about the potential for evaluation to infringe advocacy schemes’ autonomy, funders need to undertake such a process for reasons of public accountability. Advocacy schemes may find it useful to consider which model of evaluation works best for them and will be appropriate and useful for their funders.
Empowerment and the architecture of rights based social policy
- Author:
- STAINTON Tim
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 9(4), December 2005, pp.289-298.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Place of publication:
- London
This article considers what the notions of empowerment, rights and citizenship imply in the way of structures and policies. It argues that a coherent model is emerging with recognizable elements. The article begins with a brief discussion of some background and theoretical questions. It then examines four elements: support for people to articulate their claims; support for people to identify, obtain and manage supports necessary to actualize their claims; providing control over resources; and governance. Examples will be drawn primarily from the UK and British Columbia, Canada to illustrate the elements. The article then looks at some of the issues related to successful implementation of a rights or empowerment based model of policy and structures for supporting people labelled as having a learning disability.
A global movement
- Author:
- SNELL Janet
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.11.02, 2002, pp.26-28.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how to ensure that self-advocacy for people with learning difficulties continues to develop.
What's in a label?
- Author:
- GOODLEY Dan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 15(3), 2002, pp.2-5.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Discusses the use of labels in the self-advocacy movement.
Little voice, big issues
- Author:
- RUSSELL Oliver
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.2.99, 1999, p.1.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how the voices of people with learning difficulties are at last being heard and at how the result could be a revolution in service provision.
Deinstitutionalisation: the management of rights
- Author:
- JOHNSON Kelley
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 13(3), June 1998, pp.375-387.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article is based on an ethnographic study of the closure of a large institution for people with intellectual disabilities in Australia. Argues that deinstitutionalisation is a problematic process because it necessarily involves a tension between two incompatible discourses: one concerned with the 'rights' of people with intellectual disabilities and the other with their 'management'. This tension leads inevitably to compromises in the practice of deinstitutionalisation. Concludes by exploring the implications of this argument for future institutional closures.
Empowerment, self-advocacy and resilience
- Author:
- GOODLEY Dan
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 9(4), December 2005, pp.333-343.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Place of publication:
- London
This article critiques the relationship between the aims of ‘learning disability’ policy and the realities of the self-advocacy movement. A previous study found that self-advocacy can be defined as the public recognition of the resilience of people with learning difficulties. In the current climate of Valuing People, partnership boards and ‘user empowerment’, understanding resilience is crucial to the support of authentic forms of self-advocacy. This article aims to address such a challenge. First, understandings of resilience in relation to self-empowerment and self-advocacy are briefly considered. Second, the current policy climate and service provision rhetoric are critically explored. Third, it is argued that we need to recognize how self-advocacy groups celebrate resilience through a variety of social and identity-shifting actions. How current policy responds to these aspects of resilience is questioned. It is concluded that the lived reality of self-advocacy needs to be foregrounded in any attempt to understand empowerment.
Empowerment, policy levels and service forums
- Author:
- BRANDOM Toby
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 9(4), December 2005, pp.321-331.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Place of publication:
- London
This article examines empowerment through policy at three levels: governmental, service and ‘street’. It focuses in particular on ‘street level’ policy, drawing on qualitative interviews and an analysis of documentation within a day centre for adults with learning difficulties. The recorded behaviour of the workers and the structure of the day centre affected service users’ experience of power. This is discussed through the theoretical construction of the organization’s ‘service forum’ that contains its ‘posture’, a set of formal values and beliefs owned by the organization, and the ‘culture’, which is the unofficial day-to-day presentation of the service. Finally the use of such an approach is considered with regards to the future analysis of services for people with learning difficulties.