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The impact of independent advice and information about housing and support options for people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Designed to open up a wider range of housing and support options forpeople with learning difficulties, Housing Options is a nationalindependent advisory service. Describes a research project that was established to explore the impact of Housing Options. This focused on both the barriers to innovation which users of the service experienced, and the extent to which they were able to achieve successful outcomes.
People with learning difficulties and their access to direct payments schemes
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The Community Care (Direct Payments) Act 1996 came into force on 1 April 1997. It empowers local authorities to make cash payments to people, so they can purchase their own support services, instead of arranging community care services for them. However, recent research has found that few people with learning difficulties know anything about direct payments. Describes an information programme that set out to inform as many people with learning difficulties as possible about direct payments. A second part of the projectlooked at the progress people have made in their attempts to gain a direct payment. Outlines the findings of the project.
Disabled children and the Children Act
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The Children Act 1989 lays down certain regulations to safeguard all children undergong periods of care ('accommodated' or 'looked after' children). Describes research into how social services departments are fulfilling their duties under the Children Act to disabled children.
The early years of supported living in the UK: Findings
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The last five years have seen an increasing interest in the idea of supported living; enabling people with learning difficulties to live in their own homes as an alternatives to shared residential care. The authors set out to review the way that supported living as developed in the UK over this period.
Moving from hospital into the community: an evaluation by people with learning difficulties: findings
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Recent community care legislation means that more people with learning difficulties are moving out of hospital and living in the community. Services are working in very different ways. Some people may be better off, but some may be worse off. People First - an organisation run by and for people with learning difficulties - did an evaluation of services in the London Boroughs of Haringey and Sutton, looking at the ways people are helped to leave hospital and what their lives are like in the community.