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Help us to help ourselves
- Author:
- STANISTREET Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Adults Learning, 22(2), October 2010, pp.10-13.
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Adult Continuing Education
The Adult Safeguarded Learning budget is under threat in the current spending review. Yet much of the learning it funds is facilitating the kind of self-organising, grassroots activism the government says it wants to support. The author visited two local authorities (Kirklees Council and Somerset County Council) to see the often profound difference this sort of learning is making to communities. The article outlines how the services help to inspire people into transforming their lives, and how they engage the hard to reach adults. Through learning, the programmes promote community cohesion and help build agency within the community. These schemes also help in promoting democratic citizenship, with adults being more likely to engage in civic activities.
Social work practice and intellectual disability
- Authors:
- BIGBY Christine, FRAWLEY Patsie
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 238p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
Provides an understanding of the knowledge, values and skills required for effective practice in the field of learning disability and the opportunity for multidisciplinary collaboration for social change. The book focuses on adults with learning disabilities and their families. Topics include: the changing definitions of learning disability; theory and practice of working with adults with learning disabilities and their families; assessment, planning, monitoring and review; social inclusion and participation. Includes numerous case studies and discussion points.