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The long-term effects of the abusive regime at the Longcare homes
- Author:
- PRING John
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adult Protection, 7(2), August 2005, pp.37-43.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
In 1994, a leaked council report revealed that, for more than 10 years, Gordon Rowe, a former social worker, had been beating, raping and ill-treating the adults with learning difficulties who lived in the residential homes run by his company, Longcare. This paper describes the effect of this abuse on three residents.
Why it took so long to expose the abusive regime at Longcare
- Author:
- PRING John
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adult Protection, 7(1), June 2005, pp.15-23.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
In 1994, a leaked Buckinghamshire County Council report revealed that, for more than 10 years, former social worker Gordon Rowe had been beating, raping and neglecting the adults with learning difficulties who lived in the residential homes run by his company, Longcare. This paper explains how Rowe's regime was able to continue undetected for so long. The article examines the failings of the individual and organisations that had contact with the residents, including the Longcare staff, Buckinghamshire County Council, Thames Valley Police, the professionals who visited the homes, the homes' neighbours, the Longcare GP, the General Medical Council, the legal system and the local authorities that placed residents at the home.
The institution of the mind: the final challenge
- Author:
- ERICSSON Kent
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 10(1), February 2005, pp.57-61.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Deinstitutionalisation is a phenomenon with extensive practical consequences, as it leads to changes in the lives of people with a disability, their families and staff. It also has extensive theoretical consequences for disability services, as new models are needed when forming alternative services to those offered by the institution, During a deinstitutionalisation project practical and theoretical problems were faced. One unexpected phenomenon met with came to be termed ' the institution of the mind'.
Deinstitutionalisation
- Authors:
- EMERSON Eric, HATTON Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 10(1), February 2005, pp.36-40.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Over the last 50 years deinstitutionalisation has dominated social policy development for people with learning disabilities in most of the richest countries. This commemorative issue attempts to place what we have learned about the successes and failures of deinstitutionalisation in the light of 3 themes clearly evident in the work of Tizard and his colleagues: the unrealised potential of people with learning disabilities, the importance of measuring and analysing quality in residential services and the value of applied research.
A turning point in the struggle to replace institutions
- Author:
- O'BRIEN John
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 10(1), February 2005, pp.12-17.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
'Changing patterns in residential services for the mentally retarded' (1969), which reflected important contributions by Jack Tizard, marked a turning point in North American attitudes towards institutional reform from a simple call for more staff and new buildings to a much more powerful understanding of the limits of institutions and the need for a comprehensive system of supports based on systematic commitments to human dignity, positive models expressing the potential for human development, and an experimental approach to creating a comprehensive system of community supports.
Too far to go?: people with learning disabilities placed out-of-area
- Authors:
- BEADLE-BROWN Julie, et al
- Publisher:
- Tizard Centre
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 72p.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
Researchers have discovered that a substantial number of people with learning disabilities are placed in residential homes in Kent from other authorities. The study, the first to evaluate this kind of data, set out to discover why this is, and the effect of these placements on the individuals and their families.
Deinstitutionalisation and community living: an international perspective
- Author:
- MANSELL Jim
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 8(3), September 2005, pp.26-33.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article reviews progress in deinstitutionalisation and community living for people with learning disabilities. The effects of replacing institutional care on residents are summarised and some emerging problems are identified.
Deinstitutionalisation and community living: an international perspective
- Author:
- MANSELL Jim
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 10(1), February 2005, pp.22-29.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Reviews progress in deinstitutionalisation and community living for people with learning disabilities, summarising the effects of replacing institutional care on residents and identifying emerging problems.
National care standards: care homes for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Government
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Government
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 78p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
- Edition:
- Rev ed.
The National Care Standards Committee was set up by the Scottish Government to develop national standards in collaboration with a number of working groups including service users and service providers. They are designed to be from the point of view of service users to help them to understand what they can expect from the service provider. They may also be of use to service providers to help them know what is expected of them. The standards in this publication cover care homes for people with learning disabilities. These services provide accommodation together with nursing and personal care or support to people with learning disabilities. People with learning disabilities have the same rights and responsibilities as other people. These standards aim to make sure that people with learning disabilities keep these rights and responsibilities when they are staying in a care home. The standards are grouped under 4 headings: before moving in; settling in; day-to-day life; and moving on.
'Out of area, out of sight?': review of out of area placement arrangements made by social services and health for people with learning disabilities from the West Midlands
- Authors:
- RITCHIE Fiona, et al
- Publisher:
- Birmingham and the Black Country Strategic Health Authority; West Midlands South Strategic Health Authority
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 84p.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
People with learning disabilities have a different pattern of disease from the general population and high health needs that are frequently unidentified and unmet. Many require responses from general and specialist health services. A picture is emerging of some people with learning disabilities, often with complex care needs, moving from their home area on what is being termed, out-of-area placements, to receive specialist care. However, within the learning disability population, the impact on health services is not fully known.