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Pushing open the door: housing options; the impact of a housing and support advisory service
- Author:
- SIMONS Ken
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation/Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Place of publication:
- York
An independent evaluation of the services provided by "Housing Options", an advisory service established to enable people with learning difficulties to access a much wider range of housing choices than has typically been available to them. Although "Housing Options" provides advice and information about a wide range of housing and support issues, it has a particular interest and expertise in the area of home ownership for people with learning difficulties, an option that, until recently, had largely been ignored by mainstream services.
Whose home, whose life?
- Author:
- SIMONS Ken
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 8(4), April 1995, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Outlines a range of innovative approaches to housing and support for people with learning difficulties. Argues that RESCARE should be more concerned about lack of security for people living in institutions and concentrate their energies on developing good quality community-based services.
My home, my life: innovative approaches to housing and support for people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- SIMONS Ken
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 146p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Describes examples of innovative practice in housing and support for people with learning difficulties. Aimed at professionals, advocates and families.
Paid work and housing : a comparative guide to the impact of employment on housing and support for people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- PANNELL Jenny, SIMONS Ken, MACADAM Margaret
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 77p.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
This book compares the French and UK systems of providing related employment, support and housing for people with learning disabilities, focusing on and exploring the extent to which these systems facilitate opportunities to access work and housing. It identifies and describes a range of employment-related projects in the UK and France, exploring the strengths and weaknesses of both systems, and canvassing the opinions of those providing and, importantly, those using the services. The report makes recommendations for the future development of housing and employment options, suggesting ways in which these could include wider community involvement. With policy changes expected in this area in the UK, it aims to put the views of people with learning disabilities firmly on the agenda.
Getting a foot in the door: the strategic significance of supported living
- Author:
- SIMONS Ken
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 3(2), April 1998, pp.7-16.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The central argument of this article is that supported living has a potential strategic role in addressing some of the current shortcomings in community-based residential services. These shortcomings are described, along with the possible contribution of an approach in which housing and support are separated. Finally some of the current concerns about supported living are briefly addressed.
Living support networks: an evaluation of the services provided by KeyRing
- Author:
- SIMONS Ken
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 77p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Describes an innovative form of supported living for people with learning difficulties, aiming to plug the gap between residential care and no support at all. KeyRing establishes small networks of up to nine people with learning difficulties, each with their own flat. Each network has the support of a community living worker who lives nearby.
The bottom line: incentives and disincentives for a wider range of housing and support options
- Author:
- SIMONS Ken
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 4(1), February 2001, pp.20-26.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Relatively few people with learning disabilities have their own homes. Argues that to achieve a wider range of housing and support options there must be consistent financial incentives. For strategies to be successful in introducing significant change, some of the financial and administrative inconsistencies in benefits, ILF, out of area placements and Supporting People will have to be addressed.
Residential care, or housing and support?
- Author:
- SIMONS Ken
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 25(1), 1997, pp.2-6.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Until recently the place in which people with learning difficulties live, and the kind of support they would expect to get there, have been bound up with each other. This article discusses the possibility that separating out the two elements of housing and support, both in conceptual and organisational terms, may provide a contribution to continued improvement for life for people with learning disabilities who need somewhere to live.
Seeing red
- Authors:
- SIMONS Ken, ROBINSON Carol
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.10.96, 1996, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A recent survey found most people with learning difficulties valued the chance to live with their family. So why make things difficult by introducing legislation which often prohibits this option? Reports on the red tape tying people up in knots.
Home, work and inclusion: the social policy implications of supported living and employment for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- SIMONS Ken
- Publisher:
- York Publishing Service/Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 119p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Report aiming to bring adults with learning difficulties to the forefront of emerging policy on social inclusion. Explores a range of social policy areas, including: housing and support services; the regulation of community care; the social security system; employment services; and access to adult and continuing education. In each case, the problems the current system poses for people with learning difficulties are described, and possible solutions are outlined.