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Time to raise standards
- Author:
- MANSELL Jim
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 10.8.00, 2000, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
How should the national strategy for people with learning difficulties, now being drafted by the Department of Health, being judged when it arrives? Eight areas in which it needs to offer concrete proposals are suggested.
Are partnership boards really valuing people?
- Authors:
- RIDDINGTON Carol, MANSELL Jim, BEADLE-BROWN Julie
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 23(6), October 2008, pp.649-665.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Observations were conducted in three county councils to find out whether the government's ambition to develop Learning Disability Partnership Boards (as expressed in the White Paper Valuing people) are being realized. All the partnerships practiced various inclusive activities in order to involve people with learning disabilities in public service strategies. However, there appeared to be limited opportunities for citizens to be involved in recommendations or decision-making for their area. This concurs with other research elsewhere on the involvement of citizens in state provision, i.e. public participation in civic affairs remains in the control of public sector managers. The lack of opportunities for citizens to direct the allocation of resources and strategies at a local level, regardless of their ability to process information, emphasises the limits of New Labour's citizen-public sector partnerships.
Deinstitutionalisation in Britain, Scandinavia and the USA
- Authors:
- MANSELL Jim, ERICSSON Kent
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 1(1), January 1996, pp.44-46.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Despite many differences between policy and services in Scandinavia, the United States (USA) and Britain, deinstitutionalisation for people of all levels of disability and the closure of institutions really only started on a large scale in the 1980s. The article address the question of why.
Person-centred planning or person-centred action?: policy and practice in intellectual disability services
- Authors:
- MANSELL Jim, BEADLE-BROWN Julie
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 17(1), March 2004, pp.1-9.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This critical review considers the nature and importance of person-centred planning in the context of current British policy and service development in intellectual disability. The difference between person-centred planning and other kinds of individual planning is discussed. The scale of the task of implementing person-centred planning as a national policy initiative is considered. The limited evidence base for person-centred planning is reviewed and the reasons for the failure of previous attempts at individual planning are analysed. The assumption that person-centred services will be produced by a new kind of individual planning is questioned. Consideration is given to what would be necessary to make services more person-centred, including changes in power relations, funding arrangements and staff training and supervision.
Person-centred planning or person-centred action?
- Authors:
- MANSELL Jim, BEADLE-BROWN Julie
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 17(1), March 2004, pp.31-35.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article looks at issues raised under three headings addressing the scale of the task envisaged in the 2001 White Paper Valuing People, the feasibility and effectiveness of individual planning and how to achieve person-centred action. The authors conclude that there is substantial agreement about the goals of intellectual disability services and the processes that need to take place around individuals to help them get what they need and want. They disagree about whether person-centred planning will deliver this, and about whether it will provide a robust basis for claiming and defending the resources people with intellectual disabilities will need in the future.