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Dreams or expectations?
- Author:
- HOLMAN Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 7(3), January 1994, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
In London, a service for someone with learning difficulties could cost as much as 70,000 pounds a year. Trust managers are beginning to scrutinise these costs. But rather than personalising this funding to meet people's rising expectations, purchasers are returning to bulk buying and standard regimes.
Who's putting the squeeze on services
- Author:
- HOLMAN Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 8(2), October 1994, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Looks at the strangleholds preventing the growth of quality services for people with learning difficulties: the financial stranglehold; the complaints and registration stranglehold; the stranglehold of public opinion; the stranglehold of services attitude.
Where carers become the cared for
- Author:
- HOLMAN Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 23(4), 2010, pp.16-18.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Carers with learning disabilities are a hidden group within the population, and remain a largely neglected group. The article describes a campaign called ‘Who Cares for Us?' which is working with government and social services to make sure carers with learning disabilities are included in the new carers strategies. The Valuing People Now formed a National Network for Carers with Learning Disabilities, building on the work of 'Who Cares for Us'. The article acknowledges that more needs to be done, but ultimately supporting carers is an invaluable process, both for the community and the economy.
Questions of control and assessment
- Authors:
- RYAN Tony, HOLMAN Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 5(2), December 1998, pp.10-14.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
The introduction of Direct Payments for people with learning disabilities has been patchy since the passing of the Community Care (Direct Payments) Act 1996. Questions over 'consent', 'ability to manage' and 'control' are still impeding progress, particularly for people with learning disabilities. The authors call for a legally-based 'system of supported decision making' to fill a gap in our mental health law.
Funding freedom 2000: people with learning difficulties using direct payments
- Author:
- HOLMAN Andrew
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 132p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Describes how people with learning difficulties can be supported to access and use Direct Payments, and how potential problems and pitfalls can be circumvented. Begins with a section aimed at people with learning difficulties themselves and goes on to look at what is happening round the country and at how service providers can help people to get Direct Payments.
Best value for whom?
- Author:
- HOLMAN Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 12(1), July 1998, pp.18-20.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Cumbria is one of the 37 authorities to be chosen for a pilot project for the Government's 'Best Value' scheme and the only authority to specifically include learning difficulties in their application. This article looks at what it will mean for service users.
Southampton listening to users' views
- Author:
- HOLMAN Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 11(4), April 1998, pp.6-7.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Many organisations and service providers say one thing in their glossy brochures and do another in their actual provision. Reports on Southampton Community Trust's Charter for adults with learning disabilities.
Funding freedom: a guide to direct payments for people with learning difficulties
- Authors:
- HOLMAN Andrew, COLLINS Jean
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 85p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report aiming to: encourage people with learning difficulties to use Direct Payments and to suggest ways in which they may be used by people who might otherwise be thought unable to take advantage of them. Also: discusses how Direct Payments can be used flexibly to the best advantage of individuals with learning difficulties, including the option of using Direct Payments for one or more parts of a person's complete care package; identifies the safeguards needed by support schemes, such as Trust Funds, Service Brokerage, and Personal Assistance Schemes, to protect the best interests of people with learning difficulties; and identifies the systems and safeguards needed by Local Authorities to ensure that public money is properly spent in the service of people with learning difficulties.