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Safety Net: friend or fake?: an easy read guidance booklet about hate crime and mate crime
- Author:
- ASSOCIATION FOR REAL CHANGE
- Publisher:
- Association for Real Change
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 11p.
- Place of publication:
- Chesterfield
Designed for people with a learning disability, families and supporters, this booklet focuses on a type of disability hate crime called 'mate crime'. Mate crime is a type of hate crime done by someone known to a person with a learning disability (a mate may be a friend, family member, supporter, paid staff or another person with a disability), and happens when someone pretends to be a friend but is not really a friend. The easy read guide covers what hate and mate crime are, how to know when a friend is really a friend, examples of disability hate crime, being safe on the computer, what to do if mate crime happens, who and what can help, and how to spot mate crime.
Shedding the cotton wool
- Author:
- HOPKINS Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.5.03, 2003, pp.46-47.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The temptation to suffocate the development of people with learning difficulties can lead to abuse. Looks at a case where social work practitioners tried to resolve the relationship problems of an overbearing mother and an adult daughter with learning difficulties.
I get by, with a little help...
- Authors:
- KELLY Doreen, WARDROP Laura
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, 9(4), June 2009, pp.16-18.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
This article is about adults with learning disabilities and their interpersonal relationships. It focuses on Partners for Inclusion, a not-for-profit organisation that provides supported living services to adults with learning disabilities and mental health problems in Scotland. Key to Partners for Inclusion's work is supporting people to make friends and get connected in their community. There has been some debate about the question of whether a person's support worker is a friend and if the support worker should be a friend. Issues relating to protection of vulnerable adults are discussed and it is noted that this has led to the creation of policy and rules regimenting the making of friends. The authors argue that is it acceptable for staff to be friends with the people that they support, as long as they are not the only friends.