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A protocol with misguided priorities
- Author:
- CLARKE David
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 7(4), April 1994, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Questions the decision by the Welsh Office not to invest any new resources in Gentle Teaching at this time.
Homes under threat
- Author:
- PAYNE John
- Journal article citation:
- Mencap News, 43, April 1994, p.13.
New funding arrangements for housing associations are threatening the future of community based housing for people with learning disabilities.
Caring for people with learning difficulties in Scotland: comparative costs
- Author:
- RYAN Mandy
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 22(2), 1994, pp.57-61.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Compares the costs of alternative forms of residential care for people with a learning difficulty in Scotland. The results suggest that whilst it costs less to care for adults with a severe and profound learning difficulty in hospital, it is cheaper to care for adults with a moderate or mild learning difficulty in the community. Evidence of economies of scale was found in providing care for these latter two groups in the community. Foster care placements were the cheapest form of care for children with a severe and profound learning difficulty. Other research has shown that community based small homes provide a superior quality of care.
Reversal of fortune
- Author:
- DOBSON Roger
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.7.94, 1994, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The All Wales Mental Handicap Strategy was hailed as the ideal model of a strategy to care for people with learning difficulties. But eleven years on there is increasing evidence, despite repeated denials by the government, that cut-backs have forced a change in policy on the strategy.
Still to be settled: strategies for the resettlement of people from mental handicap hospitals
- Author:
- COLLINS Jean
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 56p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Provides examples of good practice and points to a number of ways forward in advancing service design and expectations for people with learning difficulties who are moved from mental handicap hospitals to the community. Contains chapters on: good practice; financial transfers; the process of resettlement; management and staffing; and designs for living.