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Self-sufficiency
- Author:
- EWING Martin
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.11.93, 1993, p.3.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The L'Arche Lambeth community provides residential and day care for 27 people with learning difficulties. Day provision focuses on offering meaningful work to each person.
Exploiting patient labour at Kew Cottages, Australia, 1887–1950
- Author:
- MONK Lee-Ann
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 38(2), June 2010, pp.86-94.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Opened in 1887, Kew Children’s Cottages were the first purpose-built state institution for people with learning disabilities in Australia. This article examines the work of patients at the Cottages for the period 1887 to 1950, work for which most received little or no monetary reward. Analysis demonstrates that the fact that the patients went unpaid was not because their work was without value. On the contrary, patient labour contributed significantly to the economy of the Cottages and so to the government department of which they were a part. The undoubted exploitation of working patients is represented by the gap between this contribution and the virtually nonexistent recompense they received in return. The article argues that government failure to provide adequately for patient needs and to rectify unsafe working conditions further exploited working patients. The final section of the article examines why some patient-labourers may have chosen to work, arguing that the restrictive, materially impoverished and relatively isolated social world in which they found themselves were an important influence on their decisions to do so.
‘A Working Man’s Life’ working inside and outside Leavesden hospital: an oral history account
- Authors:
- DELANCY Patrick, O'DRISCOLL David
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 38(2), June 2010, pp.110-111.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This is a short oral historical account of a former patient’s working life inside and outside a learning disability hospital. His first job at age 16 was packing pens, pencils and writing books in the Industrial Training Unit. After working in a variety of jobs inside the hospital, he obtained a pass to work outside the hospital, while still living there. After leaving the hospital permanently, he continued to work in a variety of settings. He is currently working every day from Monday to Friday doing a cleaning job.
Spending time and money: memories of life in St. Lawrences
- Authors:
- ABRAHAM Jane, COOPER Mabel, FERRIS Gloria
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 38(2), June 2010, pp.95-96.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article provides memories of life for patients at St. Lawrence’s Hospital in Caterham from the late 1950s to the 1970s. Mabel Cooper and Gloria Ferris spent their early adult life in this hospital. They describe their memories of how they spent their time, including the work they did and their leisure activities. They also describe the tokens that they received in exchange for work which could be used in the hospital shop instead of money.
Care farming in the UK: evidence and opportunities
- Authors:
- HINE Rachel, PRETTY Jules
- Publisher:
- National Care Farming initiative
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 119p.
- Place of publication:
- Newport, Shropshire
The National Care Farming Initiative UK (NCFI), has revealed that a single care farm operation could generate an average revenue of £52,517 per farm per annum at a meeting where twelve of the most experienced care farming practitioners. The potential development of care farming in the UK is huge. Dutch research published in November 2007 has shown that care farming is by far the fastest growing farm diversification in the Netherlands. In just under ten years the number of farms becoming involved has increased from 75 farms to over 800 farms providing care. Projections have shown that, if developments in the UK follow a similar model to that in the Netherlands over the next ten years, the 315,00 farm holdings in the UK could be generating £149 million per annum. Average revenue for care farms in the Netherlands is currently £52,517 from providing care alone. At a regional level, benefits to the rural economy could be as much as £12.3 million in the West Midlands and £10.2 million in Yorkshire and Humber Farming and rural communities can uniquely help and improve the health and social well-being of many individuals in need of assistance and support. Visiting and completing tasks on a working farm can be life changing for many people with special needs. However, there is a greater need for co-ordination on a national scale.
Living in fear: the need to combat bullying of people with a learning disability
- Author:
- MENCAP
- Publisher:
- Mencap
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A survey by Mencap of people with a learning disability has found that nearly nine out of ten respondents have experienced bullying in the last year. Two-thirds are bullied on a regular basis and almost one-third are suffering from bullying on a daily or weekly basis. People with a learning disability face prejudice and widespread discrimination that often makes them feel like outcasts and prevents them from taking a full part in society. Public attitudes in the United Kingdom towards people with a learning disability remain discriminatory. The Mencap survey suggests that the bullying of people with a learning disability is institutionalised throughout society. There are 1.2 million people with a learning disability in the United Kingdom. They need to be recognised as valuable members of society with the same rights as others. Yet people with a learning disability face discrimination in all areas of their lives - on public transport, at work, in shops and leisure centres and even in residential homes and day centres.
What price friendship: encouraging the relationships of people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- BAYLEY Michael
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 131p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Minehead
Looks at how people with learning difficulties can be helped to make friends and sustain relationships as part of enabling them to live fulfilled lives in the community. Contains chapters on: needs, structures and relationships; hospitals, hostels and the workplace; living at home; leisure; how relationships relate to structures; general principles and methods of working; a befriending scheme; and policy implications.
People with mental handicap: perspectives on intellectual disability
- Authors:
- HATTERSLEY John, et al
- Publisher:
- Faber and Faber
- Publication year:
- 1987
- Pagination:
- 255p., bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Historical and social considerations; assessment; role of the family and professionals; employment; recreation; residential care; sexuality; staffing issues; growing old.
Values and visions: changing ideas in services for people with learning difficulties
- Editors:
- PHILPOT Terry, WARD Linda
- Publisher:
- Butterworth-Heinemann
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 422p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Includes chapters on: supporting families of children and adults with learning difficulties; achieving supported housing; supported employment and real jobs; continuing education for adults with learning difficulties; institutional trends in services; developing better relationships between health and social services; assessment and care management; making contracts work for people with learning difficulties; user participation in services; complaints procedures; developing better services for people from black and minority ethnic communities; gender issues; older people with learning difficulties; self advocacy; challenging behaviour; sexuality; parents with learning difficulties; poverty; and media images of people with learning difficulties. Also contains sections on services provision in the United States and Canada.
HIV-AIDS: a social work perspective
- Editors:
- BAMFORD Margaret, GAITLEY Roger, MILLER Riva
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 125p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
An introduction to HIV_AIDS for social workers, and guidelines for counselling those affected. Includes the Kensington and Chelsea SSD guidelines for care of people with AIDS.