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Time to move on: a hospital is not a home
- Author:
- TURNING POINT
- Publisher:
- Turning Point
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 20p.. bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Examines why is it taking so long to move people with a learning disability from hospitals. Turning Point thinks that there are four reasons: The government has not made it top priority; it is sometimes hard for people in the NHS and Social Services to work together; there is no extra money to help move people into the community; and there are not enough services for people with a learning disability locally.
Valuing people priorities squeezed by other social care commitments
- Author:
- JERROM Clare
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 19.06.03, 2003, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at councils needs for more resources if they are to provide adequate services for people with learning difficulties and fulfil the aims of the Valuing People strategy. Also discusses the effectiveness of the learning disability partnership boards.
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.
Inclusive research with people with learning disabilities: past, present and futures
- Authors:
- WALMSLEY Jan, JOHNSON Kelley
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 256p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The authors explain how lessons learnt from inclusive research in the learning disability field are applicable to others working with marginalized groups. They examine the origins and the process of inclusive research, describing how and why it takes place, who carries it out, who funds it, how it is designed and how it relates to policy and practice. They look at the challenges inherent in this work, such as balancing the voice of the researcher with that of disabled participants and clarifying roles within research projects, and explore how it can become more inclusive and empowering. Providing information and advice to researchers, policy makers and students as well as other health and social care professionals, this book presents a comprehensive examination of participative research in social care.
Where's the pot?
- Author:
- SALE Annabel Unity
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.11.03, 2003, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how the government's funding for supported housing policy, Supporting People, has run into trouble. Costs have spiralled and now a review has been commissioned.
Ordinary residence
- Author:
- DOW John
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Integrated Care, 11(4), August 2003, pp.12-16.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Supporting People has raised new issues relating to 'ordinary residence', as people with learning difficulties move from care homes to supported living schemes. Examines the legal background and the factors which can determine where a persons is 'ordinarily resident' and which local authority is responsible for providing community care services.
Innovation: inspiring stories, radical shifts in power, exciting ideas for change
- Authors:
- PARADIGM, CHOICE SUPPORT
- Publisher:
- Paradigm
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- Lincoln
This booklet deals with the rights of people with learning difficulties to assume full citizenship. It argues that the legacy and institutionalisation of the existing welfare system make changes necessary. It argues that people with learning difficulties need to break new ground to achieve ordinary things others take for granted.
Budget cuts deflate enthusiasm for new supported housing scheme
- Author:
- HUNTER Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 6.3.03, 2003, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how local councils are now being asked to cut costs in Supporting People projects, despite government guarantees that funding would be met in full.
Planning for tomorrow: report on the findings of a survey of Learning Disability Partnership Boards about meeting the needs of older family carers
- Author:
- FOUNDATION FOR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
- Publisher:
- Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 42p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report is part of the on-going Older Family Carers Initiative, a three-year project led by the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities in partnership with organisations working to improve the lives of people with learning disabilities and their families, and the Valuing People Support Team. It is aimed at supporting Partnership Boards to identify, meet the needs and plan for the future of older family carers of people with learning disabilities.
Just getting on with it: exploring the service needs of mothers who care for young children with severe/profound and life-threatening intellectual disability
- Authors:
- REDMOND Bairbe, RICHARDSON Victoria
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 16(3), September 2003, pp.205-218.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This study interviewed mothers (n= 17) of children aged 4 years and under with severe/profound intellectual disability, some with attendant complex medical, life-limiting conditions. The study explored the mothers' views of the usefulness of the financial, practical and emotional supports being offered to them and their suggestions for service improvements. The study reveals these mothers to be engaged in stressful but skilled care of their children with a clear wish to continue caring for their child in the family home. Mothers frequently referred to the process of gaining useful information on services as 'haphazard' and most of the services offered to them as uncoordinated, unreliable and difficult to access. The study reveals that many of these children's needs are not being adequately met by either the intellectual disability services or the acute medical services, and some families are forced to privately finance services such as physiotherapy and speech therapy. The data reveal that mothers want services offered to them in their own home, particularly short home-based respite, which would offer them short breaks to rest or engage in part-time employment. The study concludes that a reliable and flexible service response, including a comprehensive information and advocacy support is indicated for these families.