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Hidden lives
- Author:
- GILBERT Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 14.12.04, 2004, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Reports on how the government has been called on to impose a statutory duty on local agencies to improve services for people with learning disabilities in light of the failure of existing legislation.
Wales keeps the lead
- Author:
- MARCHANT Catriona
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.8.91, 1991, p.7.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The Secretary of State for Wales has published proposals for the development of the All-Wales Mental Handicap Strategy beyond 1993.
Not so much a programme - more a way of life
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 23.2.89, 1989, p.32.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Brief summary of the BASW discussion paper of the same title, which supercedes Towards Extraordinary Services...
Public special services provided to people with intellectual disabilities in Sweden: a life-span perspective
- Author:
- UMB-CARLSSON Oie
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 5(4), December 2008, pp.237-244.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This study describes public special services, support, and health care provided to an administratively defined county sample of people with intellectual disabilities from early childhood to adult age. Comparisons were made on the variables year of birth, sex, and assessed level of intellectual disabilities in 1974. Information was obtained from case files and included the period from year of birth of the participants (between 1959 and 1974) to 2005. All participants were provided public special services, support, and health care either periodically or throughout the study period. Changes in legislation were reflected in the type of services, support, and health care provided to the target group. Type and amount of special services and support were related to year of birth. Only a few differences were related to sex and level of intellectual disabilities. These results indicate that public special services, support, and health care provided to people with intellectual disabilities reflect disability policy, legislation, and professional attitudes over different periods. It is suggested that measures were tailored to meet general needs considered to be shared by all people with intellectual disabilities rather than individual choices and wishes. The interaction among professionals emerged only to a limited extent. However, deficient information in the case files does not imply absence of contact between professional groups, but, if continuity in services, support, and health care is to be attained, significant improvement in documentation is required.
Worth target for a Wanless
- Author:
- HONOUR Heather
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 9.8.07, 2007, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
As demand for services for people with learning disabilities grows and suitable services fail to keep pace, the author looks at how a Wanless-style review in the area could be useful.
The Valuing People vision
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Viewpoint, March 2006, pp.16-19.
- Publisher:
- Mencap/Gateway
The learning disability white paper, 'Valuing People', was published five years ago this March. This article looks at achievements so far, and six leading figures in learning disability say what they consider to be Valuing People's biggest successes and disappointments.
Walking back to unhappiness
- Author:
- ROPER Adrian
- Journal article citation:
- Llais, 79, Spring 2006, pp.3-7.
- Publisher:
- Learning Disability Wales
The author, chair of the All Wales Community Living Network, asks whether social care commissioners will use their power to build harmony and effectiveness among provider agencies, or drag them back into cost-driven competition.
Implementing the service principles and service responses grant
- Author:
- WALTERS Liz
- Journal article citation:
- Llais, 78, Autumn 2005, pp.17-19.
- Publisher:
- Learning Disability Wales
The funding from the Welsh Assembly Governments Service Principle and Service Responses guidance has been allocated. Areas highlighted by the strategy development process for further development included: person centred planning; advocacy; information provision; direct payments; partnership in planning; workforce planning and training; modernising day services and employment; children and families; parents and carers; general health; and complex needs. This article looks at how eight local authorities will be spending their funding in the area of learning disabilities.
Individual budgeting in state-financed developmental disabilities services in the United States
- Author:
- MOSELEY Charles R.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 30(3), September 2005, pp.165-170.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article reports the findings of a study of individual budgeting practices in state-financed developmental disabilities services in the United States. The study's purpose was to describe key process components and methodological variables integral to consumer-controlled, individual budgeting formats employed in state-funded services. The study was conducted in two phases: a national survey sent to state agency directors in all 50 states plus Washington DC, and an in-depth assessment of individual budgeting practices in 9 selected states. Data received from 84% of state developmental disabilities agencies contacted indicated considerable variability in the formats employed by states to: determine support needs of eligible individuals; equate needs to specific services; and set an amount of funding sufficient to pay for identified supports. No single individual budgeting method is universally accepted by all state agencies. State practices differ significantly from one jurisdiction to another, although most follow a developmental, statistical or mixed methodology.
Protecting the unprotected
- Author:
- BURKE Kath
- Journal article citation:
- Local Government Chronicle, 25.8.05, 2005, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Emap Business
This article reports on a special unit in Liverpool which is pioneering a witness support scheme for people with learning disabilities.