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The ballon has deflated
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.6.04, 2004, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Three years ago Valuing People set out a vision of independence and choice for people with learning difficulties. Reports on the frustation some service users and support groups feel about the pace of change
Two steps forward
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.11.93, 1993, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
This week the National Development Team (NDT) was relaunched as an independent agency. Discusses what existing services are available for people with learning difficulties and identifies the role that the NDT will have in establishing policy to support people with learning difficulties.
No one knows: police responses to suspects with learning disabilities and learning difficulties: a review of policy and practice
- Author:
- JACOBSON Jessica
- Publisher:
- Prison Reform Trust
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 48p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Police safeguards for dealing with suspects with learning difficulties are “patchy and inconsistent”, according to new research. No One Knows: Police Responses to Suspects with Learning Disabilities and Learning Difficulties, a report published by the Prison Reform Trust (PRT) last week, noted an “increased risk of miscarriage of justice” when people with learning difficulties are taken into police custody. The report highlighted problems with inconsistent legal advice, lack of training amongst police staff and patchy provision of ‘Appropriate Adults’, which are in place to support and advise vulnerable people in custody. It said suspects’ needs are frequently not identified and that there is limited referral of suspects for clinical attention. The report is part of a wider PRT programme exploring the experiences of people with learning difficulties who come in contact with the criminal justice system. It recommended that PACE provisions be amended to place a duty on the police to provide legal advice for all suspects with learning difficulties during detention and interviews. It also called for ring-fenced funding for statutory provision of Appropriate Adults, and a common system across all police forces to screen suspects to identify people with learning difficulties.
Valuing people
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 28, 29.1.03, 2003, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Outlines progress to date with the Valuing People White paper, and highlights key issues for practice and practitioners.
Advocating for people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- MELLET Redmond
- Journal article citation:
- Management Issues in Social Care, 1(5), January 1998, pp.1-5.
- Publisher:
- OLM Systems
Describes the history of understanding and help for people with learning difficulties in the USA and the UK. Highlights issues relating to community care and a need to revisit basic principles.
Empowerment, self-advocacy and resilience
- Author:
- GOODLEY Dan
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 9(4), December 2005, pp.333-343.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Place of publication:
- London
This article critiques the relationship between the aims of ‘learning disability’ policy and the realities of the self-advocacy movement. A previous study found that self-advocacy can be defined as the public recognition of the resilience of people with learning difficulties. In the current climate of Valuing People, partnership boards and ‘user empowerment’, understanding resilience is crucial to the support of authentic forms of self-advocacy. This article aims to address such a challenge. First, understandings of resilience in relation to self-empowerment and self-advocacy are briefly considered. Second, the current policy climate and service provision rhetoric are critically explored. Third, it is argued that we need to recognize how self-advocacy groups celebrate resilience through a variety of social and identity-shifting actions. How current policy responds to these aspects of resilience is questioned. It is concluded that the lived reality of self-advocacy needs to be foregrounded in any attempt to understand empowerment.
Empowerment, policy levels and service forums
- Author:
- BRANDOM Toby
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 9(4), December 2005, pp.321-331.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Place of publication:
- London
This article examines empowerment through policy at three levels: governmental, service and ‘street’. It focuses in particular on ‘street level’ policy, drawing on qualitative interviews and an analysis of documentation within a day centre for adults with learning difficulties. The recorded behaviour of the workers and the structure of the day centre affected service users’ experience of power. This is discussed through the theoretical construction of the organization’s ‘service forum’ that contains its ‘posture’, a set of formal values and beliefs owned by the organization, and the ‘culture’, which is the unofficial day-to-day presentation of the service. Finally the use of such an approach is considered with regards to the future analysis of services for people with learning difficulties.
Who gets to decide?
- Author:
- LEASON Katie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.07.03, 2003, pp.28-30.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The draft Mental Incapacity bill should improve the way decisions are made for those who lack capacity. Looks at the concerns of some people who fear they may lose even more control over their lives.
Growing up speaking out: a guide to advocacy for young learning disabled people in transition (14-25 years)
- Author:
- SOUNDS GOOD PROJECT
- Publisher:
- Advocacy Resource Exchange
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 112p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide is about community-based advocacy for young learning disabled people in transition from school to adult services. It is particularly important for young learning disabled people to get advocacy support as they are making choices about what they want in life. The guide points out that: 1) projects will need to develop an effective child protection policy; 2) young volunteer advocates are needed; 3) a collaborative relationship with parents is crucial; and 4) advocacy projects need to relate to a range of different organisations, including Connexions and education.
Citizen advocacy in Camden and Westminster: an independent evaluation funded by BILD; April 2003
- Author:
- CAMDEN AND WESTMINSTER CITIZEN ADVOCACY. The Advocacy Project
- Publisher:
- Camden and Westminster Citizen Advocacy
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 36p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The BILD Citizen Advocacy Project currently working with local advocacy groups and advocacy organisations in Camden and Westminster to: produce common guidelines for citizen advocacy groups; explore the benefits of local affiliations between advocacy groups; and map the existing provision of advocacy groups. BILD is part of the new consortium which will be responsible for distributing the additional monies for citizen advocacy referred to in Valuing People.