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People, plans and practicalities: achieving change through person centred planning
- Authors:
- RITCHIE Pete, et al
- Publisher:
- Scottish Human Services Trust
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 196p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This book examines the thinking behind person centred planning when providing services for people with learning difficulties and looks at how the process works in practice. It focus in particular on joint working across services, including health and education, and looking at the person's whole environment.
The draft Mental Incapacity Bill
- Author:
- SCHWEHR Belinda
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 40, 16.7.03, 2003, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
The draft Mental Incapacity Bill aims to clarify the legality of decision-making for adults with less than full mental capacity. Provides a critical overview of the Bill, highlighting the Bills main features. Argues that the main beneficiaries of the Bill are not service users but carers, care homes and social care staff.
Sounds familiar
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.4.03, 2003, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at the importance of communicating with service users sensibly and sensitively, avoiding patronising expressions that may give offence.
Partnership Boards: making them work
- Author:
- SCOTT Joan
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Integrated Care, 11(3), June 2003, pp.5-8.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Written from the users perspective, this article outlines good practice in the establishment and running of partnership boards in learning disability services. It is based on the experience of People First in Norfolk. The article is presented in a way that highlights the author's recommendations about effective communication.
Implementing person-centred planning by developing person-centred teams
- Author:
- SANDERSON Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Integrated Care, 11(3), June 2003, pp.18-25.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Person-centred planning in central to Valuing People. Developing person-centred teams is a key to implementing plans. This article presents a model for developing person-centred teams. The model is based on research on providing support to people with learning difficulties in supported housing. The research generated ideas about how teams need to become person-centred to become more effective. Examples of how teams worked to implement plans are show to illustrate this process and clarify why it requires a change in thinking as well as a change in practice.
Housing for adults with a learning disability
- Authors:
- GORFIN Laura, McGLAUGHLIN Alex
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 6(3), August 2003, pp.4-8.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Discusses the findings of a project which aimed to involve adults with a learning disability in service planning , by asking them to identify their own needs and preferences in relation to housing.
Power in the community: how community groups can achieve their goals
- Author:
- BRIGHT Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 16(4), 2003, pp.13-15.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Reports on the Elfrida Society's Community Development Project which, three years on, is showing what community groups can achieve with careful support and mentoring. The project has worked with people with learning difficulties to establish their own community groups, some of which have become community enterprises.
Going to the doctor's : the findings from a focus group with people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- BOLLARD Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities, 7(2), June 2003, pp.156-164.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The article examines the potential of the focus group as a specific tool for appropriately engaging people with learning disabilities in the research process. The focus group is advocated as an appropriate tool that can 'collectivize' the experiences of people who may have limited communication skills. This method can be used in conjunction with others to gain service user viewpoints and to involve people with learning disabilities in research. In the article the author shares some of the findings from a study which involved people with learning disabilities through a focus group. Issues of how the author obtained consent from the participants and attempted to acknowledge the power differential between participants and the researcher are highlighted. Obtaining consent and recognizing the power difference between the researcher and people with learning disabilities are put forward as key challenges for those wishing to engage in disability research.
Becoming a learning organization: a precondition for person centred services to people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- ILES Ian K.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities, 7(1), March 2003, pp.65-77.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Following the White Paper Valuing People, person centred planning is now firmly on the agenda of services to people with learning difficulties in England. Person centred planning has its foundations in communities of practice that have innovated and developed person centred approaches to action planning for disabled people. This article suggests that services will need to undergo some radical re-visioning of their ways of working if they are to make a meaningful reality of person centred planning. It is further suggested that services need to become learning organizations, committed to values of inclusion and to living those values in their practice. Further, by promoting and celebrating innovation and creativity, by flattening hierarchical structures and promoting social entrepreneurship and cooperative working and inquiry, services can further develop person centredness in what they do and make a reality of the rhetoric in Valuing People.
Time to make up your mind: why choosing is difficult
- Author:
- HARRIS John
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 31(1), 2003, pp.3-8.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article gives an overview of the current understanding of the concept of choice. It concludes that aspirations to promote choice for people with learning disability are undermined by conceptual confusion about the meaning of choice, inappropriate methods for helping people to make choices and an absence of applied research to guide practice in service settings. This review is designed to establish a conceptual framework for examining choice and empowerment for people with learning disability, and to describe the implications for future research and practice.