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Ordinary living twenty years on
- Author:
- GAULT Brian
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 14(2), October 2000, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Looks at social policy and services for people with learning difficulties in Sweden.
Taking the UN Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities seriously: the past and future of the EU structural funds as a tool to achieve community living
- Authors:
- QUINN Gerard, DOYLE Suzanne
- Publisher:
- National University of Ireland. Centre for Disability Law and Policy
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 26p.
- Place of publication:
- Galway
In late 2010 the European Union ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD). Confirmation of the convention has the potential to drive the evolution of a much more focused and robust set of EU-level responses in the form of legislation and policy change on disability. This essay focuses on one of the most important financial instruments of the EU, the Structural Funds, and its relationship to the UN CRPD. A major test of EU commitment to the convention is the need to radically amend the Regulations governing the EU Structural Funds to ensure compliance with the CRPD. The funds have been used in the past to fund the creation of new residential institutions for persons with disabilities (especially those with intellectual disabilities) in several recipient countries. However, this building of institutions is not a ‘mis-use’ of the Funds since the underlying Regulations are permissive toward this kind of use. The essay argues that there is a need to change the underlying Regulations to make it plain that EU monies cannot be spent to open new institutions and that they should, ideally, be spent to enable transitions to community living to occur.
Rethinking respite policy for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities
- Authors:
- CHAN Jeffrey, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 9(2), June 2012, pp.120-126.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Respite care has consistently shown benefits for service users and their families. However, disjointed implementation and lack of coherency in respite policy has hampered the consistent availability of respite care and limited its positive effects. Provision of respite care can be improved by an improved understanding of the meaning of respite for stakeholders and a negotiation of these sometimes opposing points of view. This article presents an argument for a model of service delivery that builds on a shared understanding of respite among stakeholders. This shared understanding is seen as generating a move toward integrated service development, recasting respite as part of a continuum of family support services in which funding policies give families more control. A shared understanding can be a foundation for the training, communication, funding flexibility, and mutual trust among stakeholders. Respite care provided in an integrated framework moves beyond the basic function of a break in caring for overburdened carers to one that can provide support for family coping and resilience.
The goldrush
- Author:
- CHURCHILL James
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.3.02, 2002, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Government policy to help service users has created a rush by local authorities to obtain as much money as possible from central government. Looks at the major policy and funding change involved in policies such as Valuing People, Supporting People and the Care Standards Act 2000.
To close or not to close. The future of learning disability hospitals in Scotland
- Authors:
- STALKER Kirsten, HUNTER Susan
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 19(2), May 1999, pp.177-194.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article deals with the resettlement of people with learning difficulties from Scottish hospitals. First it outlines the policy background, tracing the rise and demise of the long-stay institution. It then reports on a study examining current resettlement policies in Scotland, where there is no national closure programme. The research found that resettlement is largely in disarray, with particular difficulties in planning, financial arrangements and inter-agency collaboration. Argues that there is a great risk of hospitals being perpetuated or reconstructed, particularly through the activities of NHS Trusts, and of people with dual labels remaining resident in them for years to come.