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Investment in staff empowers service users
- Author:
- REED John
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 3(2), December 1996, pp.16-19.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Northern Life Care, a private company providing a variety of accommodation and community support for people with learning disabilities, is showing how the independent sector can provide individualised services through a commitment to staff and service users. Explains how the company has developed and describes a vision of future services.
Learning difficulties
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 2, October 1996, pp.11-15.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Describes how services which have involved people with learning difficulties in the recruitment of staff have found that it means better and more suitable staff are appointed, but there are concerns to be allayed before proceeding. Reports on a study of supported employment which has found it is more satisfying for service users than traditional day services, with jobs being found for those with both mild and severe difficulties.
Personnel services
- Authors:
- TOWNSLEY Ruth, MACADAM Margaret
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.10.96, 1996, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Explains how fully involving service users in the selection of new staff can have positive results for employment practice, with benefits to staff and their clients.
Services for people with mild intellectual disabilities and challenging behaviour: service-user views
- Authors:
- MURPHY G.H., ESTIEN D., CLARE I.C.H.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 9(3), 1996, pp.256-283.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
People with mild intellectual disabilities and challenging behaviour, who had all been service-users at a specialist, hospital-based unit, were interviewed after they had left the service for an average of four and a half years, about their current quality of life and their memories of the service. On the whole, people were still living in the community though many had had a large number of placement moves (and some had returned to hospital or prison). It is argued that there may be a need to re-think services for service-users with challenging behaviours and mild intellectual disabilities.
A summer school for learning disabled children: description and evaluation
- Authors:
- McFADYEN Anne, HUGHES Margaret
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 24(3), September 1996, pp.124-128.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Describes the setting up and evaluation of a summer school for children with learning disability and challenging behaviour. The children either maintained their level of functioning or made developmental progress, and behaviour difficulties were reduced in most cases. Parents reported benefits in their own emotional health, while volunteers felt that they had a valuable experience. The project is an example of a user-led, multi-agency way of working.
The fight-for-rights
- Author:
- THOMPSON Audrey
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.7.96, 1996, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author writes that disabled people, elderly people with learning difficulties are all speaking out loudly to be heard.
Levelling the odds
- Author:
- WALKER Carol
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 23.5.96, 1996, p.25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The needs of older people with learning difficulties are often overlooked. The author argues that if service providers can find ways of meeting the challenge, the can lead full lives.
Will direct funding mean genuine empowerment - or a candyfloss charade?
- Author:
- BRANDON David
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 9(4), April 1996, p.17.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The author warns that terms like direct funding and brokerage could be used to hide new forms of professional colonialism. Or the direct funding system could be a great success story leading to genuine and radical transfer of power. Asks which it is to be.
Partners in policymaking
- Author:
- NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TEAM
- Publisher:
- National Development Team
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 34p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Partners in Policy Making is a leadership training programme for disabled adults and parents of disabled children up to school leaving age. Aims to invest in users of services who will have the competence and confidence to work with policy makers at national and local level. This booklet describes the course content, and how it was run with a group of people from the North West of England.
Daily activity, community participation and quality of life in an ordinary housing network
- Authors:
- RAPLEY Mark, BEYER Stephen
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 9(1), 1996, pp.31-39.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Many studies of the quality of ordinary housing have relied upon objective indices, which permit only inferential judgments to be made about quality of life of service users. Quality of life has recently emerged as a key outcome criterion against which to assess the success of community based services for people with intellectual disabilities. A small scale study was conducted to assess the extent to which objective measures of service quality were enhanced by the addition of a QOL measure. Data suggested that isolation and disengagement characterised the sample. It is concluded that the ordinary house remains a necessary, but insufficient component of an integrative service model.