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Working on person-centred planning: from amber to green light?
- Authors:
- DOWLING Sandra, MANTHORPE Jill, COWLEY Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 11(1), March 2007, pp.65-82.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Place of publication:
- London
This article reviews the practice and policy based literature on person-centred planning in learning disability services in England. Its aim is to identify the implications for the workforce in practice. The analysis found that implementation is often described as partial or slow and characterizes reasons for this at a number of levels, including the slow pace of change in service culture and power relations, immutable funding structures, services’ inflexible infrastructures, high levels of staff turnover and lack of training, inexperience among service management, inadequate staff supervision, and ambiguity among some stakeholders. Little substantial critique exists of the model itself. Analysis of the literature further reveals that the implementation of person-centred planning in practice is assisted by policy encouragement, service development and investment, favourable case reports and personal accounts, practitioner enthusiasm and positive evaluations. This article explores these to consider what facilitates the adoption of new elements of practice.
Literature review : measuring and managing risk in social welfare
- Authors:
- ALASZEWSKI Andy, MANTHORPE Jill
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 21(3), June 1991, pp.277-290.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Examines the development of services for children at risk of abuse, people with a learning difficulty and drug misusers and the related problems of assessing and managing risk.
Keeping it in the family? People with learning disabilities and families employing their own care and support workers. Findings from a scoping review of the literature
- Authors:
- MANTHORPE Jill, MORIARTY Jo, CORNES Michelle
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 15(3), September 2011, pp.195-207.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Place of publication:
- London
The use of consumer-directed support in England is increasing through the use of personal budgets and direct payments. This article draws on the findings of a scoping review of the literature conducted in 2010 on employment relationships between adults with disabilities and the care or support workers they employ using public or private funds. This article focuses on the findings of the earlier review with regard to the people with learning disabilities and their family carers who employ care or support workers. The review identified a small number of studies that involved people with learning disabilities as respondents, although more relied on family carers as proxy respondents. The findings from these studies covered: recruitment and administration; employment of family members; training needs; the nature and content of employment relationships; and ending employment. The article observes that there is little information on the management and negotiations of employment relationships, particularly when family members step into paid roles. Messages from the review are provided for family carers, for people with learning disabilities and for care and support workers.
The nature of gambling-related harms for adults at risk: a review
- Authors:
- BRAMLEY Stephanie, NORRIE Caroline, MANTHORPE Jill
- Publisher:
- King's College London. Social Care Workforce Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 64
- Place of publication:
- London
This scoping review looks at the prevalence of gambling-related harm affecting people described as adults at risk, including people with dementia, people with mental health problems, people with learning disabilities and other cognitive impairments. The review includes literature on the risks from regulated gambling; the risk of harm from scams and fake lotteries; and where gambling is cited as explanation among perpetrators for causing neglect or abuse to vulnerable adults. The first section sets the context for the review, and looks at the prevalence of problem gambling, defining gambling related harm and the challenges of protecting vulnerable people from harm while allowing gambling to take place in local communities. The second section presents the review methodology and key findings. The review focuses on four areas to examine extent to which gambling is a safeguarding issue for those working in social care and for local authority adult services: the evidence of gambling participation among adults at risk; the impact of gambling participation for adults at risk; evidence that perpetrators of abuse against adults at risk are committing these acts or crimes to fund gambling addictions; and how social work and adult safeguarding teams manage gambling related harm. (Edited publisher abstract)