Search results for ‘Subject term:"learning disabilities"’ Sort:
Results 1 - 10 of 14
Two steps forward
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.11.93, 1993, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
This week the National Development Team (NDT) was relaunched as an independent agency. Discusses what existing services are available for people with learning difficulties and identifies the role that the NDT will have in establishing policy to support people with learning difficulties.
Getting better all the time?: issues and strategies for ensuring quality in community services for people with mental handicap; papers and reports from a workshop May 7th - 9th 1986
- Editor:
- WARD Linda
- Publisher:
- Kings Fund Centre
- Publication year:
- 1986
- Pagination:
- 88p., bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Defines quality and looks at practical approaches to pursuing quality in both residential and community support services. Includes section on planning for quality when developing services.
Need to know
- Authors:
- WARD Linda, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 10.5.91, 1991, pp.12-13.
Some guidelines on improving provision in residential and day care for ethnic minority people with learning difficulties.
Planning for change? Learning disability joint investment plans and implementing the Valuing People White Paper
- Authors:
- WARD Linda, FYSON Rachel, WATSON Debby
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Integrated Care, 12(3), June 2004, pp.11-19.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Valuing People outlined ambitious plans for improving services for people with learning disabilities in England. Strategies to realise these goals were to be taken forward through the new structure of learning disability partnership boards, based in the first instance on local joint investment plans (JIPs). Reports findings from an analysis of the first round of learning disability JIPs compiled as the implementation of the White Paper began, and reviews the implications for the development of robust local strategies and action plans.
Gap years
- Authors:
- WARD Linda, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.2.03, 2003, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at services for young people with learning difficulties entering adulthood. Highlights lack of coordination between children and adult services as a continuing problem. Draws on the findings of research which surveyed young people with learning difficulties about the services they received.
Learning difficulties
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 8, October 1999, pp.62-64.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Describes two research projects that examine the value of day service provision and ask whether the move towards more integrated activities for people with learning difficulties is working.
Learning difficulties
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 1, April 1996, pp.18-20.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Looking at research relating to people with learning difficulties says there are hard lessons to be learned, but there are also positive signs of what can be achieved if those lessons are learned.
Supporting roles
- Authors:
- KINSELLA Peter, WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.7.93, 1993, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A shadow has been cast over group homes for people with learning difficulties. Research on the schemes revealed that many residents in the homes do not really choose where they are going to live, with whom, their support staff, their routines or their expenditure. As the major residential alternative to hospitals and hostels for people with learning difficulties the life style offered is still often powerless and controlled. In the United States there has been a strong movement towards Supported living, where many people receive a mixture of paid and informal supports which are individually planned and arranged around them; and in the UK the National Development Team for people with learning difficulties is just launching its Supported Living Initiative. Looks at the future in supported living.
Learning difficulties
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, October 2001, pp.26-28.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Looks at some of the research to come out of the Growing Older with Learning Disabilities (GOLD) Programme at the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities. The article focuses on projects in housing, residential services for older people and involving people with learning disabilities in planning their futures.
Jargon-free zone
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.12.94, 1994, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Ten years ago People First was launched by a group of people with learning difficulties, who had been to America to find out more about self advocacy. In the London boroughs there are now 30 People First groups, and many more through the UK. Reports from their tenth anniversary conference and discovers the aims of People First and where they want to be in the future.