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Nice job if you can get it: work and people with learning difficulties
- Authors:
- WILLIAMS Val, et al
- Publisher:
- Norah Fry Research Centre
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 39p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This report is about employment opportunities and day centres and jobs for people with learning disabilities. It examines the policy background, and the motivation and barriers to work experienced by people with learning disabilities. Suggestions for enhanced advocacy and user led decision making are included.
'He will finish up caring for me': people with learning disabilities and mutual care
- Authors:
- WILLIAMS Val, ROBINSON Carol
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 29(2), June 2001, pp.56-62.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reports on a research study of the impact of the UK Carers Act 1995 on families with someone with a learning disability. It involved canvassing the views of people with learning disabilities about their experience of assessments and their relationships within the family. The authors found that many people with learning disabilities expressed empathy for their carer's point of view and that several people (including some who had high support needs themselves) were performing care tasks for their elderly parents. However, no one appeared to recognise the situation as one of mutual care, and parents generally carried on defining themselves as carers since they took responsibility and exercised control. The authors conclude that mutual caring is far more common than is recognised and includes people with severe learning disabilities. A more holistic approach to assessment of needs is required that can take into account the complex web of interdependence within a family. Rather than categorising people into 'carers' and 'cared-for', the authors suggest a model that recognises mutually supportive partnerships within the family.