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Caring for people with severe learning difficulties in ordinary houses
- Authors:
- HALLIDAY Sabrina, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap, 20(4), December 1992, pp.137-143.
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Mental Handicap
Evaluation of community care only rarely considers management issues and the stresses which arise from new work structures and situations. This study examined the changed role of community care staff and the support required to maintain an effective service. Factors identified as important stressors were working together in a smaller setting; being in the public gaze, and the risk-taking involved in client training programmes.
How frontline staff manage paperwork in group homes for people with intellectual disability: Implications for practice
- Authors:
- QUILLIAM Claire, BIGBY Christine, DOUGLAS Jacinta
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 31(5), 2018, pp.905-914.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Background: Paperwork is a key tool that transforms organisational intentions into actions in group homes, although prescriptive procedures may limit how frontline staff use it in practice. The aim of this study was to explore how frontline staff use paperwork in group homes for people with intellectual disability and identify practice implications. Method: Constructivist grounded theory methodology guided the research. Data collection included semi‐structured interviews and participant observations. Coding, comparison and sorting methods were adopted to analyse how staff used paperwork. Results: Staff followed organisational paperwork rules when they aligned with their resident‐focused approach to work. When they perceived rules to misalign with this approach, they managed paperwork by adjusting the time and place of completion, managing content, creating alternative tools and refusing completion. Conclusions: Staff purposefully managed paperwork rather than simply following procedures. Disability service organisations could develop flexible paperwork procedures and include frontline perspectives in paperwork development. (Edited publisher abstract)
"All the social workers could offer was a drink and a drip of sympathy"
- Author:
- ASPIS Simone
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, August 1995, p.7.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
A service user with learning difficulties describes how she found a lack of support from social workers when challenging policies at a charity group home.
Someone to turn to: the social worker's role and the role of front line staff in relation to people with mental handicaps
- Author:
- ATKINSON Dorothy
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Mental Handicap
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 104p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
An account of research which identified the key role played by social workers in the lives of people discharged from mental handicap hospitals to homes within the community.)