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Valuing people, not institutions
- Author:
- GREIG Rob
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 8(3), September 2005, pp.34-39.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article describes the author's experience of two meetings. One, with a self-advocate-led organisation, was concerned with helping it expand and make use of its work a 3 key issues: advice on parenting skills for parents with learning disability, accessible information on health for people with learning disability, and training in the use of accessible information. The second was with a group of senior service managers seeking advice on how to reorganise and restructure their service organisations. The author discusses the 'professional gift model' and the 'citizenship model' which set of concerns and actions had the potential for the greatest impact on the lives of people with learning disabilities.
Valuing people, not institutions
- Author:
- GREIG Rob
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 10(1), February 2005, pp.30-35.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Describes the author's experience of two meetings. One, with a self-advocate-led organisation, was concerned with helping it expand and make use of its work a 3 key issues: advice on parenting skills for parents with learning disability, accessible information on health for people with learning disability, and training in the use of accessible information. The second was with a group of senior service managers seeking advice on how to reorganise and restructure their service organisations. Asks which set of concerns and actions had the potential for the greatest impact on the lives of people with learning disabilities.
Commentary on “Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme: a collaboration opportunity for academia and industry”
- Author:
- GREIG Rob
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 23(3), 2018, pp.147-149.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a UK perspective on the article by Mason et al. on Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Design/methodology/approach: A commentary on the main article, drawing on the author’s knowledge and experience of the implementation of personalisation in the UK and information gleaned during a recent visit to Australia. Findings: There is a major risk that the implementation of NDIS will repeat some of the failings of personalisation in the UK. Specifically, the failures of public bodies to invest in supporting people to take effective control over the resources available to them, and to instigate action to manage the emerging market in ways that promote innovative community options, risk the forces of the free market economy undermining disabled people’s ability to make maximum use of any new choice and control open to them. Originality/value: This is a personal perspective, backed by experience, on a current policy development that is of international interest. (Edited publisher abstract)