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Little voice, big issues
- Author:
- RUSSELL Oliver
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.2.99, 1999, p.1.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how the voices of people with learning difficulties are at last being heard and at how the result could be a revolution in service provision.
No empowerment, no comment
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.6.99, 1999, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The UK self-advocacy movement for people with learning difficulties is burgeoning and service providers are beginning to take notice. Explains how the decibel level has risen.
Care in the community for people with a learning disability: choice, opportunity and risk
- Authors:
- BALDWIN Susan, THIRKETTLE Barry
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Care, 2(5), January 1999, pp.167-169.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
How to balance safety with real opportunities for choice is an issue for all those caring for people with a learning disability living in the community. Yet such opportunities are essential to personal development and a fundamental human rights. Explains how, for care professionals, it means taking, and managing, risks.
A place at the table?: involving people with learning disabilities in purchasing and commissioning services
- Author:
- SIMONS Ken
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 77p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Kidderminster
Aims to promote the development of participation within the commissioning and purchasing of services for people with learning difficulties through: identifying the principles underlying participation; setting these principles in the context of the commissioning and purchasing process; providing some examples of participation in practice; promoting links between people involved in participation; and exploring possible directions in participation.
Making the right moves: rights and protection for adults with incapacity; laid before Scottish Parliament by the Scottish Ministers, August 1999
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 36p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Statement setting out Scottish Executive plans to introduce comprehensive legislation in the Scottish Parliament to protect the rights and interests of adults who lack capacity because of mental health problems, learning difficulties, or dementia.
What choice: a consideration of the level of opportunity for people with mild and moderate learning disabilities to lead a physically active healthy lifestyle
- Authors:
- MESSENT Peter R., COOKE Carlton B., LONG Jonathan
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 27(2), 1999, pp.73-77.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article asks whether inequalities of opportunity exist between the general population and adults with mild and moderate learning disabilities to lead a physically active lifestyle, and if the provision of equivalent opportunities should be considered a human right. For the learning disability population the right to opportunities to be physically active can be divided into primary and secondary rights, the former is the right to opportunities, the latter is whether and how the opportunities are taken up. This review suggests that care in the community is insufficiently resourced to provide adequately beyond basic needs and that significant inequalities do exist between the general and learning disability populations in relation to opportunities and choices to be physically active.
The view from Arthur's seat: review of services for people with learning disabilities; a literature review of housing and support options beyond Scotland
- Authors:
- SIMONS Ken, WATSON Debbie
- Publisher:
- Scottish Executive Central Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 138p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This report argues that a 'modernised' housing and support system for people with learning disabilities should encompass the following principles: citizenship and civil rights; supported living models such as 'active' support; person centred planning; access to other services such as employment, continuing education and supported leisure activities; coherent and flexible funding; and regulatory reform.
The structure of arguments used to support or oppose inclusion policies for students with disabilities
- Author:
- COLE Peter G.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 24(3), September 1999, pp.215-225.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Discusses the arguments which have been proposed to support or oppose the value of the inclusion model in the education of students with disabilities. The author places the arguments in four categories: consequentialist, justice, rights and the needs argument. discusses the arguments in detail which are commonly used to support or deny policies of inclusion.
Doing it by the book
- Author:
- GREEN Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 26.8.99, 1999, pp.18-19,21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Wiltshire Council cancelled the registration of two care homes for people with learning difficulties after an inspection. Discovers that some users and their parents feel their views were ignored.
How well is management working in the learning disability services?
- Author:
- CAMBRIDGE Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 5(4), June 1999, pp.21-26.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Although care management continues to evolve, little is known about its relative effectiveness, particularly in relation to the needs of users and the user groups. This article identifies the key areas in which care management's performance and effectiveness can be reviewed, with a focus on services for people with learning disabilities.