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Valuing people review submission: December 2004
- Author:
- MENCAP
- Publisher:
- Mencap
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 13p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The introduction of the Valuing People white paper in March 2001 has been the most important policy development for people with a learning disability and their families and carers in a generation. This submission to the Valuing People review sets out how Mencap believes the Valuing People programme should develop over the next five years. It looks at three broad areas: philosophy, structure, and policy priorities.
Valuing People
- Author:
- WOLVERSON David
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 4(3), August 2001, pp.16-18.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The new White Paper, Valuing People: A New Strategy for Learning Disability for the 21st Century, is the first for 30 years. It is important, first, as an indication that people with learning disabilities are not forgotten - as it might sometimes seem. It is important, second, for the attitudes it contains - the aims and principles that should guide services are stated formally or implied in the text - and third, because it is the first guidance on learning disability services to recognise the importance of 'a place to live', with a section on housing, not just references to residential care.
It's time to value everyone
- Author:
- MIR Ghazala
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 19.02.04, 2004, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Argues that people from ethnic minorities who have learning difficulties are not feeling the benefits brought about by Valuing People policies. Reports on attempts by government to address this problem
Where is the support for self-determination?
- Author:
- ASPIS Simone
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 14(4), April 2001, pp.ii-iii.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Argues that support for self-determination, rather than providing services decided by others, would be the best way of reducing the poverty and exclusion of people with learning difficulties. Argues that the White Paper does not address this issue.
Thirty years on - a new White Paper on better learning disability services
- Author:
- McGINNIS Brian
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 3(3), September 2000, pp.7-10.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Outlines the themes that are likely to be important in the new national learning disability strategy. It reflects on assumptions about the best forms of housing provision, and calls for the forthcoming published strategy to pay attention to developing ownership options, promoting social inclusion, how we secure quality across a range of accommodation and support models and what will be achieved or undermined by the Supporting people proposals.
Mencap urges new ministers to focus on welfare and work
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Viewpoint, 31, August 1998, p.4.
- Publisher:
- Mencap/Gateway
Looks at Mencap's response to the Government's Green Paper, 'A New Contract for Welfare', which urges ministers to take greater account of the needs of people who cannot work, and to set a basic standard for income and benefit.
Think local act vocal
- Authors:
- HOPKINSON Patrick, POLLOCK Linda, COYLE David
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Care, 1(7), March 1998, pp.220-221.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
The NHS white papers for England, Wales and Scotland herald a completely new framework for the organisation and delivery of health care services. Commentators from the field outline the main points, and analyse the implications for mental health and learning disabilities services.
Special needs need special measures
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Viewpoint, 24, December 1997, p.8.
- Publisher:
- Mencap/Gateway
Children with special educational needs are the focus of a Government Green paper and a Mencap report. The Government intends to integrate these students into mainstream education; Mencap reveals the tragedy of exclusion.
Improving health, supporting justice: the national delivery plan of the Health and Criminal Justice Programme Board
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 61p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This plan is published in response to the recommendations for improving the health and well-being of adult offenders in Lord Bradley’s 2009 review of people with mental health problems or learning disabilities in the criminal justice system in the United Kingdom. It accepts the direction proposed in the Bradley review and in combination with feedback from stakeholders given during the consultation ‘Improving health, supporting justice’ sets out a strategic framework of 5 objectives with timescales aimed for over the next 18 months. Delivering this plan in recessionary times means little scope for new resources and it concentrates on improving and re-focusing existing services across individual Primary Care Trust and criminal justice agencies and localities working in partnership, by adopting existing good practice, system reform to better working practices and the innovative skills of frontline staff. In addition this plan details several service specific priorities, for example for the Police and Crown Prosecution Services, the courts, prisons and probationary services and drugs and alcohol misuse services. Key deliverables, with timescales are listed throughout the text, which are referenced against the Bradley review recommendations, eighty two of which are annexed to this paper.
Valuing people now: a new three-year strategy for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 143p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Valuing people now sets out the Government's strategy for people with learning disabilities for the next three years following consultation. It also responds to the main recommendations in Healthcare for All, the independent inquiry into access to healthcare for people with learning disabilities.