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Developing community care for adults with a mental handicap
- Author:
- AUDIT COMMISSION FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN ENGLAND AND WALES
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 19p., tables, diags.
- Place of publication:
- London
Analyses the funding and organisational problems that the principle of community care has faced and that will need to be addressed if Social Services Departments are to effectively take the lead role in co-ordinating community care.
Spain
- Authors:
- SALVADOR-CARULLA Luis, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 9(1), January 2004, pp.40-47.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Provides an overview of services for people with learning difficulties in Spain. Three parallel processes have taken place during the last 20 years: decentralisation, a health reform and a mental health reform. These processes have produced an extremely complex situation in support and care for people with learning difficulties. The decentraliation process was not accompanied by a clear definition of the co-ordination mechanisms among local authorities, and as a result many different health and social care systems have emerged at different times. An important characteristic of the Spanish system is the major role of NGOs in care and policy-making and planning in this area. A shift from institutional to community care has begun for both psychiatric patients and people with learning difficulties, but compared with neighbouring countries and published standards, the provision of intermediate services and non-hospital residential care is very low, and the situation is worst for people with learning difficulties and psychiatric problems. The article covers: definition, legal status and eligibility; policy framework; service structures and funding of services.
Supporting evidence
- Author:
- RASHLEIGH Bill
- Journal article citation:
- Roof, May 2005, pp.24-27.
- Publisher:
- Shelter
The residents of a support home in Somerset are terrified by the news that it's about to be closed down. Asks whether Supporting People, a system that was supposed to help them, is letting them down. Looks at similar cases across the country as the finance available is reduced.
Belgium
- Authors:
- Van HOVE Geert, MOLLEMAN Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 9(1), January 2004, pp.7-14.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Outlines the support system in Flanders, which is generally the best organised region in Belgium with regard to services for people with learning disabilities. Covers: definition, legal status and eligibility; policy framework; service structures and models; and funding of services.
England
- Authors:
- BEADLE-BROWN Julie, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 9(1), January 2004, pp.31-39.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article focuses on the development and current situation of services for people with learning disabilities in England. Deinstitutionalisation started in the 1960's, when a series of scandals in hospitals were brought to public attention. In response, the 1971 government White Paper Better Services for the Mentally Handicapped was published, and the first community-based services were introduced. Further policy papers attempted to modernise social services in the following period. The 2001 White paper Valuing People is the most recent policy framework specific to people with intellectual disabilities. It identifies rights, independence, choice and inclusion as the four leading principles for services and support, and will be of primary importance for future development. However, at present implementation is in the very early stages. The article covers: Covers: definition, legal status and eligibility; policy framework; service structures and funding of services.
Germany
- Authors:
- SCHADLER Johannes, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 9(1), January 2004, pp.15-23.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Provides an overview of the services provided for people with intellectual disabilities in Germany. Highlights the development pathways and specific historical experiences to help understand the development of services. Church welfare and powerful voluntary welfare organisations, traditional psychiatry and its 'oligophrenic' ideal, the division of state funding competencies into local and centralised levels and the commitments of a new generation of parents organised in the association Lebenshilfe were important factors for the development of the current structures. These can be characterised by the persistence of residential facilities, although it has been the legal mission of the social administration since 1984 to give priority to the expansion of non-residential services. Specific financial mechanisms promote institutionalisation from the perspective of the local authorities and impede the implementation of integrative approaches in the community. Covers: definition, legal status and eligibility; policy framework; service structures and funding of services.
Greece
- Author:
- PADELIADU Susana
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 9(1), January 2004, pp.24-30.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Provides an overview of services for people with intellectual disabilities in Greece, which can be described as versatile and based on both old and new structures, old, over-crowded institutions co-existing with new, alternative structures for independent living. Distinguishing features of the support system are limited financial resources, a strong orientation to medical categories in psychiatry and lack of specific services. There are still many people with intellectual disabilities being treated in mental health services. The gap in services is filled by informal networks, which face a crisis because of the increasing participation of women in the labour market. One of the many deficiencies of the present system is the lack of any sound knowledge of how many people with intellectual disabilities there are, who they are, how they cope with their disabilities and what services they use. This article covers: definition, legal status and eligibility; policy framework; service structures and funding of services.
Task force calls for greater effort to implement Valuing People strategy
- Author:
- SALE Anabel Unity
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 16.1.03, 2003, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at some of the findings of the Learning Disability Task Force's first annual report 'Making Things Happen'. It concludes that there still needs to be greater involvement of people with learning difficulties in the work of government departments.
Top of the policy queue?
- Author:
- REVANS Lauren
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.01.02, 2002, pp.28-30.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A recent blaze of activity has raised hopes that the Valuing People strategy for people with learning difficulties is back at the centre of the government's agenda. Asks whether new structures and guides are sufficient to make the strategy work.
The forgotten four hundred
- Author:
- STAINTON Tim
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 13(1), July 1999, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
A series of broken promises, apparently driven by cost cutting policies, means that today some 400 people are still languishing in large institutions in Wales. The number is slowly declining but this is due to mortality rather than resettlement rates. Charts the course that took Wales from the top to the bottom of the league for learning difficulties services.