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Uncharted territory
- Author:
- HOPKINS Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.7.04, 2004, pp.40-41.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on a user group in Tower Hamlets is shaping services for people with learning difficulties. Looks at how the Map Squad's creative and simple consultation methods have helped other service users to speak up.
Responsive services for learning disabled people from minority ethnic communities
- Authors:
- STARLING Samantha, et al
- Publisher:
- Manchester Metropolitan University. Research Institute for Health and Social Change
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 24p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
This study reviews the impact of the recommendations from existing studies on current service responsiveness to the needs of learning disabled people from minority ethnic communities and their carers. The study focuses on service delivery within the North West of England. Specifically the study aimed to gain a picture of the range of services available and of who uses the services; to explore the level of commissioner and provider knowledge about ethnic minority users of services; to identify any specific policies, procedures or practices regarding meeting the needs of learning disabled people from minority ethnic communities, and what has made these effective or ineffective.
Outcomes for disabled service users
- Authors:
- HARRIS Jennifer, et al
- Publisher:
- University of York. Social Policy Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 90p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Social service provision to younger disabled people is not often at the forefront of policy debate. However, the Government recognises the distinct contribution that disabled people make to the economy and the waste of potential that ensues when key services do not assist them. Often the type of assistance that younger disabled people require needs to be more flexible, or of a different type, than that offered by social services. For example, people may require assistance with making decisions concerning work, both paid and voluntary, or in parenting. This study explored ways of incorporating these and other types of assistance into assessment processes. In the study these were called ‘outcomes’ and they were incorporated into new assessment documents for use by a multi-disciplinary team of professionals.
Meet the co-stars
- Author:
- HOPKINS Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 28.10.04, 2004, pp.46-47.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how service users in Buckinghamshire are shaping the council's learning difficulties strategy by co-leading with senior staff.
Making your voice heard: a guide to local government: accessible version
- Author:
- MENCAP
- Publisher:
- Mencap
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 17p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A guide how local government works and what it does plus how users can encourage local government to improve services for people with a learning disability and their families and carers.
Retirement or just a change of pace: an Australian national survey of disability day services used by older people with disabilities
- Authors:
- BIGBY Christine, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 29(3), September 2004, pp.239-254.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Definitions of old age selected by researchers should reflect differences in culture and life expectancy within and between developing and developed nations. Fifty-five years was used to denote older people in both the Australian national survey and a Victorian study. Consequently, 55 years and older has been used to denote older people in this study. people with a lifelong disability are discussed. A postal survey of 596 day programmes for people with disabilities was conducted, with a response rate of 28%. Findings show that only 19% of service users were aged over 55, and the largest subgroup were people with intellectual disability. Many older people attended programs that were not age specific and a typology of the seven program types utilised was constructed. Individualised planning, flexibility and choice were perceived as fundamental to a successful program. The location of activities in the community, maintenance of social relationships, and opportunities to develop new contacts were also seen as important. Little understanding, however, of the diversity of the ageing process or notions of healthy ageing was demonstrated by service providers, many of whom had limited expectations of older people. Challenges identified in providing day support for older people were lack of financial resources, knowledge and expertise amongst staff, and difficulties interfacing with other service systems.
Service provision for young people with intellectual disabilities and additional mental health needs: service-providers’ perspectives
- Authors:
- SCIOR Katrina, GRIERSON Kate
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 17(3), September 2004, pp.173-179.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Very little is known about young people with intellectual disabilities who experience additional mental health problems. The perspective of service providers has been highlighted as one unresearched area. Semi-structured interviews were completed with senior service providers. Aims: (1) to explore experiences of working with young people with intellectual disabilities and additional mental health problems and their families; (2) to examine views on services’ ability to meet the needs of this group. Service providers identified a gulf between current policy and the reality for this group, not least in terms of all agencies working in partnership. All agencies described instances when young people in this group fall through gaps between services. Interviewees identified a range of factors that promote good outcomes. The results suggest that the focus of current policies to promote joint working needs to be broadened beyond health and social services to ensure much improved links with education providers and the voluntary sector if the needs of this group are to be met.
Positive engagement
- Author:
- THORP Sam
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 6.7.04, 2004, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Reports from Sheffield Care Trust on the Care Trust Council set up to give service users a voice in how learning disability and mental health services for adults and older people are delivered in the city.
Person-centred planning in its strategic context
- Authors:
- TOWELL David, SANDERSON Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 17(1), March 2004, pp.17-21.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Valuing People, the English national strategy launched in 2001 is founded on the twin principles of self-determination and social inclusion. It promotes a vision of people with intellectual disabilities in the mainstream of life. To achieve this goal, it seeks to integrate a wide variety of elements, in which person-centred planning (PCP) is one. The authors present their critique in three main ways: by fully recognising the extent to which PCP is an intrinsic element of the national strategy, helping to operationalise its core principles; by crediting the ways in which individual planning and action are intended to become part of one continuous process; and by showing how the strategy addresses the challenge of scale by prioritising quality rather than quantity in implementing PCP, with the aspiration of creating a virtuous spiral of positive change.
Planning and action
- Authors:
- EMERSON Eric, STANCLIFFE Roger J.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 17(1), March 2004, pp.23-26.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Raises a a number of concerns about the possible impact of the systematic introduction of person-centred planning (PCP) across services for people with intellectual disabilities in the UK. The authors foresee a danger that system-wide adoption of PCP will be characterised over zealous 'selling' of the purported benefits without sufficient attention to the difficulties and without the necessary changes to system architecture to ensure that those involved in PCP have the authority or resources to achieve the plan's goals. If so, PCP will become another fad, and service users, and their families will become even more discouraged, disheartened and alienated by a system characterised by rhetoric rather than meaningful action. Where the authors differ, is in the interpretation of the existing evidence regarding the impact of individual planning systems in general and, perhaps, in the way forward.