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Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Information about The Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000, which provides ways to manage the financial and welfare affairs of people who are unable to manage them for themselves. Suitable for professionals and lay people.
No more obstacles to casting that vote
- Author:
- ASPIS Simone
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 14(1), July 2000, p.5.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Reviews the Act, Representation of the Persons Act, which will make it easier for disabled people to vote.
A wake-up call for service providers
- Author:
- ASPIS Simone
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 14(2), October 2000, p.8.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Discusses how the Disability Discrimination Act aims to make services providers aware of their responsibilities to ensure that disabled people are not confronted by disablist attitudes or subject to negative generalisations by being labelled as having learning difficulties.
The minimum wage: a mixed blessing?
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 14(1), July 2000, p.11.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Looks at the implications of the introduction of the minimum wage for people with learning difficulties.
Why rights are never enough: rights, intellectual disability and understanding
- Authors:
- YOUNG Damon A., QUIBELL Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(5), August 2000, pp.747-764.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
In order to address obvious inequities, rights have been utilised to provide the 'basic' material needs for many groups. Whilst this brings some groups/individuals up to a perceived minimum standard, it unfortunately fails to address the misunderstandings from which the inequities originally stemmed. Via a sociological and philosophical exploration of rights-based strategies relating to intellectual disability, this Australian article provides a fuller exploration of the issues surrounding this problem, and suggests some alternatives. These alternatives are concerned specifically with a broadening of rights to facilitate understanding, rather than simple 'protection' from harm and/or the provision of material needs.
Should sex have legal boundaries
- Author:
- BRAMMER Alison
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 5(3), August 2000, pp.26-29.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The link between law and the sexual health of people with learning disabilities is not immediately apparent. This article focuses on two areas where law imposes restrictive limits under the guise of the need for protection. Whether this can be justified as appropriate is questioned, and it may be argued that discrimination operates to deny full opportunity for sexuality.
Issues and dilemmas for learning disability community psychiatric services
- Authors:
- HOLLINS Sheila, COURTENAY Ken
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 5(2), June 2000, pp.26-29.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
Highlights the additional problems facing those working in learning disability community mental health services.
This Bill threatens both professional practice and civil rights
- Author:
- RITCHIE Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 13(3), January 2000, pp.20-23.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The author argues that the Adults with Incapacity Bill currently going through the Scottish Parliament, although well intentioned, contains inadequate safeguards for the civil rights of people with learning disabilities and may be impossible to implement in accordance with its own stated principles.
The great taboo: sexual abuse of older people; edited papers from a conference organised by Action on Elder Abuse on 21 October 1999, London
- Editor:
- MANTHORPE Jill
- Publisher:
- Action On Elder Abuse
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 44p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Proceedings of a conference organised by Action on Elder Abuse, October 1999, London. Papers cover topics such as: what practitioners need to know about the normal sexuality of older people; lessons to be learned from the abuse of adults with learning disabilities; definition of sexual abuse and its particular implications for older people; current law and options for reform; and the particular support needs of older victims.
Time to end 'time out'
- Author:
- SHARP Hannah
- Journal article citation:
- Values into Action, 99, 2000, pp.6-7.
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
Expresses concern that the practice of using 'time out' or seclusion rooms for people with learning difficulties may be widespread in residential settings.