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Time to raise standards: part 2
- Author:
- McCURRY Patrick
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 10.8.00, 2000, p.27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
This article looks at the review of services for learning difficulties in Scotland and finds some radical proposals that may mean services will look different to those south of the border.
Learning disability today
- Author:
- CARNABY Steven
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 220p.
- Place of publication:
- Eynsham
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
This book examines the current issues of those using and delivering services and support for people with a learning disability. The book strives to renew and extend the enthusiasm of the previous editions in the face of an ever-changing landscape of policy and provision. Many of the chapter themes reflect the learning outcomes of the QCF learning disability qualifications introduced in 2011. Personalised services, quality of life and inclusion for all and key issues are covered in this new edition. Topics include: legislative frameworks person-centred thinking: implementing person-centred approaches in health and social care self-directed support and personalisation intimate lives: sexuality and people with learning disabilities family matters: working with parents with learning disabilities.
Social policy and people with intellectual disabilities in Poland: enhancing quality of life?
- Authors:
- OTREBSKI Wojciech, NORTHWAY Ruth, MANSELL Ian
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities, 7(4), December 2003, pp.363-374.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The past decade has been a time of great political, social and economic change within Poland. Such changes have affected the lives of all citizens including those with an intellectual disability. However, within the English language literature there is little published concerning the impact of changes in social policy on this group of people and the extent to which their quality of life has been enhanced. This article thus considers the difficult relationship between quality of life and social policy, provides an overview of key policy developments within Poland (both general and disability specific), and outlines some ways in which they have impacted on the lives of people with intellectual disabilities. It is suggested that further research is required before clear conclusions can be drawn. Areas for service development and research are thus proposed.
A long overdue review
- Author:
- CHADDA Dolly
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.11.00, 2000, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Next year there will be a new strategy for learning difficulties services. More resources, changed attitudes and a reorganised service are all needed.
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.
Towards a full life: researching policy innovation for people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- FELCE David, et al
- Publisher:
- Butterworth-Heinemann
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 239p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Describes the results and implications of a sustained programme of research into a national policy to improve the quality of life and social standing of people with learning disabilities. The focus is on the 'All Wales Strategy' - a mould-breaking national policy which has direct relevance to all who are concerned about responsive, person-centred community care.
Our future: people with learning disabilities speak out on Government plans for social care
- Author:
- UNITED RESPONSE
- Publisher:
- United Response
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 34p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report presents the views of people with learning disabilities on the Government’s plans for social care and discusses how their lives will be affected by the proposals. The report reveals that while service users and their relatives feel that some of the proposed reforms would make a really positive difference, almost all are concerned about current levels of funding for care; what is going to happen to their benefits; and how their support will be affected as a result. Free care for disabled people, as well as better access to support for those with mild and moderate needs and those with multiple disabilities were all regarded by the panel as crucial to providing people with the support that they need.
Deinstitutionalisation in Norway: the process, challenges and solutions
- Author:
- KIELLAND Christian B.
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 15(4), October 2010, pp.15-21.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article looks back at the process of deinstitutionalisation in Norway, which took place over 20 years ago and which led to a comprehensive system of community-based services. The new system aimed to give people with intellectual disabilities the aid they need in order to live lives as close to the lives of other people as possible. Each person should be entitled to his or her own individual dwelling in an ordinary flat or house. Basic services should be provided by the municipalities instead of the counties, with specialised services given by the counties. Services should be provided to each individual person according to his or her need. This article outlines the process and examines the issues which had to be addressed during the process of change. It considers what has been achieved in the areas of housing, services to assist activities of daily life, medical attention and specialised health services, labour market participation, education, personal integrity, rights, leisure-time activities and holidays. It concludes that the goals have only been partially achieved, but that Norway is still ahead of most other countries.
Children and young people with disabilities in Northern Ireland: part 2: the circumstances, needs and aspirations of young people with disabilities making the transition to adulthood
- Authors:
- MONTEITH Marina, SNEDDON Helga
- Publisher:
- Queen's University Belfast. Centre for Child Care Research
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 75p.
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
Aims to provide an extensive profile of disabled children and their families in Northern Ireland through the analysis of the nature of disability, family circumstances and socio-demographic characteristics, and the provision of services in a number of social policy areas (health and social services, education, housing). The project included the views of disabled children making the transition to adulthood in Northern Ireland regarding key issues in these areas.
Regional welfare system developments in Russia: community social services
- Author:
- THOMSON Kate
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 36(2), April 2002, pp.105-122.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Micro-level studies of welfare service developments are largely absent from the literature on Russian social policy issues, which tends to concentrates on macro-level social security arrangements. This paper highlights the emergence of community-based social services in the post-1991 era, examining their development in two provincial Russian cities, based on an empirical study carried out in 1998. The paper adds to a growing literature which seeks to understand "welfare systems" from the perspective of welfare services by looking at their use by, and relevance for, disabled children regarded as having learning difficulties, and their families. The empirical data indicate the shape of "new" services in the field sites, the means by which such institutions were maintained and their integration into the welfare sphere as a whole. Their development and maintenance at the local level is explained in part by socio-economic, political and administrative factors in these regions. By highlighting the various factors that help to maintain welfare provision and drive change at the local level, the case studies indicate the possible shape of future welfare developments in Russia as a whole.