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Getting it right
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Viewpoint, 117, July 2010, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Mencap/Gateway
Learning Disability Week 2010 took place in June, focusing on Mencap's Getting It Right campaign to improve the rights of people with a learning disability to equal healthcare and including the launch of the Getting It Right charter which sets out adjustments that healthcare professionals should make when treating someone with a learning disability. This article describes the campaign, lists the nine pledges of the Getting It Right charter, and includes a brief case study.
Equal access?: a practical guide for the NHS: creating a single equality scheme that includes improving access for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 34p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A person with learning disabilities may need extra consideration and support from the NHS, as a patient, visitor or employee. Adapting information, communication and other aspects of care for them will help ensure services are also friendly to anyone who has difficulties with written or spoken English. This is a guide to support the NHS to include people with learning disabilities in their equality schemes, with practical examples of reasonable adjustments to achieve equality of access. The guide contains 4 major sections: Information for people with learning disabilities and family carers; Reasonable adjustments in service delivery; Information about people with learning disabilities; Patient and public involvement.
Promoting equal opportunities for leisure: an evaluation of the barriers to leisure opportunities for young people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- COOPER Simon
- Publisher:
- University of Warwick; Social Care Association
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 48p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Coventry
Literature review and evaluation of the barriers to leisure opportunities for young people with learning disabilities. Also summary of legal and practice issues.
Social rights and civil society: 'giving force' without 'enforcement'
- Author:
- O'BRIEN Nick
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 34(4), 2012, pp.459-470.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
In this article, the author explores the effectiveness of equality, human rights and ombudsman institutions in giving force to social rights. The article presents and discusses 3 specific examples of the institutional protection and promotion of equality rights: the strategic approach of the Disability Rights Commission in Britain between 2000 and 2007; the engagement of the Greek Parliamentary Ombudsman with civil society to give practical effect to European equality law, especially in respect of the Roma community; and the work of the Health Service Ombudsman in England in promoting health equality for people with learning disabilities. It asserts that in each of these examples the mobilisation of equality law, and indirectly of social rights entitlement, is dependent upon the activation of civil society and intermediate institutions.
A short guide to the equality duties for social care service users: easy read version
- Author:
- EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Equality and Human Rights Commission
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
This Easy Read guide explains what the equality duties are and what an equality scheme is, and what to do if a council breaks the law. It is designed to support people with learning disabilities when engaging with public authorities to challenge institutional discrimination. It describes what equality duties are, and how public authorities must work hard to make things fairer and more equal, before explaining that the equality duties say that public authorities must work hard to make sure everyone has the same chances. It then tells how councils must also follow the equality duties and make it easy for everyone to have a say about new care and support services. Finally, the guide examines what can be done if councils break the law regarding equality duties.
Health inequalities and people with learning disabilities in the UK
- Authors:
- EMERSON Eric, BAINES Susannah
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 16(1), January 2011, pp.42-48.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This report, designed to assist primary, acute and specialist NHS trusts in fulfilling their responsibilities for meeting the health needs of people with learning disabilities, summarises recent evidence from the UK on the health status of people with learning disabilities. It notes that people with learning disabilities have poorer health than their non-disabled peers and that the health inequalities they face start early in life, and draws attention to aspects of health where people with learning disabilities fare particularly poorly. It looks at inequalities in health status, summarising the available UK research literature on the health status and needs of children and adults with learning disabilities since 2002. It also discusses determinants of health inequalities faced by people with learning disabilities, covering increased risk of exposure to social determinants of health, increased risk associated with specific genetic and biological causes of learning disabilities, communication difficulties and reduced health literacy, personal health risks and behaviours, and deficiencies in access to and quality of health care provision. The authors conclude by suggesting actions which can be taken to respond to the health inequalities identified.
Is our legal, health care and social support infrastructure neurodiverse enough? How far are the aims of the neurodiversity movement fulfilled for those diagnosed with cognitive disability and learning disability?
- Authors:
- MACKENZIE Robin, WATTS John
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 16(1), January 2011, pp.30-37.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Neurodiversity activists represent a number of those diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorders who claim that this diagnosis should be considered as indicating a difference rather than dysfunction or disability. They suggest that autism should be considered a category much like gender or ethnicity. This article examines what legal structures and health and social care systems would be appropriate to promote neurodiversity, and how far this infrastructure in the UK today meets these criteria for those diagnosed with cognitive disability and learning disability.
Scant justice
- Author:
- WILLIAMS Corin
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.3.09, 2009, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
People with learning disabilities can be more easily manipulated by both criminals and the police. The author discusses issues such as false confessions, a lack of understanding of the criminal justice system and the lack of rehabilitation opportunities in prison if convicted. The article briefly discusses the recent case of Mohamad Abdulaziz Rashid Saeed-Alim, a young man with Asperger's syndrome and learning disabilities, who had been converted to Islam by extremists and then been persuaded to attempt mass murder.
Your rights at work: a guide for people with a learning disability and their supporters
- Author:
- DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Disability Rights Commission
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 28p.
- Place of publication:
- Stratford upon Avon
This guide tells people with learning difficulties and their supporters about the kind of changes they can ask for when trying to get a job, or when employed.
It'll be all rights
- Author:
- BRODY Simeon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.06.06, 2006, p.46.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author asks how far councils have gone in meeting the forthcoming duty to promote equality of opportunity for disabled people. The article focuses on the progress made in producing and disability equality scheme, and the extent of involving disabled people in drafting these schemes.