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Power on whose terms?
- Author:
- ASPIS Simone
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 10(3), January 1997, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The author explains how self-advocacy can be made a genuinely empowering process for people with learning difficulties.
Where is the support for self-determination?
- Author:
- ASPIS Simone
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 14(4), April 2001, pp.ii-iii.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Argues that support for self-determination, rather than providing services decided by others, would be the best way of reducing the poverty and exclusion of people with learning difficulties. Argues that the White Paper does not address this issue.
"All the social workers could offer was a drink and a drip of sympathy"
- Author:
- ASPIS Simone
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, August 1995, p.7.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
A service user with learning difficulties describes how she found a lack of support from social workers when challenging policies at a charity group home.