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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.
A shadow council
- Author:
- GAULT Nicola
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, 10(2), April 2009, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Due to different local structures, Northern Ireland has no partnership boards and so an alternative way of involving people is needed. This article describes an initiative to give adults with learning disabilities a formal platform to comment on policies affecting them through a shadow local council.
An introduction to supporting people with a learning disability
- Authors:
- HARDIE Elaine, TILLY Liz
- Publisher:
- Learning Matters
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 125p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This textbook is designed to support the unit “Understanding the context of supporting individuals with learning disabilities” which forms part of the syllabus for Level 2 and 3 health and social care diplomas in the UK. The authors explore the impact on a person and their family of having a label of learning disability. It explains the possible causes of learning disability and the history of support for people with learning disabilities. The person with a learning disability is placed firmly at the centre of the support described. Real life stories, activities, thinking points and practical examples are included to cover all of the learning outcomes required for the Unit. Chapter headings cover: understanding the nature and characteristics of learning disability; understanding the historical context of learning disability; understanding how views and attitudes impact on the lives of people and their family carers; promoting communication with people with learning disabilities; understanding the principles of advocacy, empowerment and active participation; and understanding the legislation and policies that support the human rights and inclusion of people with learning disabilities.
Valuing people now: summary report March 2009-September 2010: including findings from Learning Disability Partnership Board self assessments 2009-2010
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 64p.
- Place of publication:
- London
All 152 Learning Disability Partnership Boards produced an annual report setting out the progress they made from April 2009 to March 2010. The information from these was used by nine Regional Boards to create summary reports for each region. This report brings together the key findings from the regional reports and additional national data to illustrate progress achieved in delivering Valuing People Now (the three-year strategy for people with learning disabilities published by the Department of Health in 2009). It provides summary information about the local Partnership Boards reports, key findings on the priority areas of health, housing, and employment, and progress in other areas including personalisation, transition, including everyone, hate crime, and advocacy. It also identifies further progress needed and provides examples of good practice at a regional and local level.
Challenging behavior: a barrier to inclusion?
- Author:
- MURPHY Glynis
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 6(2), June 2009, pp.89-90.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Arguably, the most important outcome measure for services to people with intellectual disabilities is quality of life. Quality of life has been defined in numerous ways and may consist of many aspects, including physical, material, and emotional well-being, as well as interpersonal relationships, personal development, self-determination, social inclusion, and civic rights. However, the most important aspect is social inclusion. People with intellectual disabilities who show challenging behaviour, however, often make other people uncomfortable so that social inclusion is more difficult, and evidence suggests that both children and adults with intellectual disabilities and challenging behaviour (and their families) have poorer quality of life and more restrictions in their lives than others with intellectual disabilities. Examination of the psychosocial aspects of quality of life indicates that modern services are still not good at providing people with challenging behaviour with opportunities for making relationships, employment, and social inclusion. We need to improve our ability to target these areas of quality of life, particularly social inclusion for people with challenging behaviour.
Citizenship: a guide for providers of support
- Authors:
- SLY Sam, TINDALL Bob
- Publisher:
- Centre for Welfare Reform
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 48
- Place of publication:
- Sheffield
This guide outlines the 7 keys to citizenship and explains how they can be used by service providers to improve the lives of people with disabilities and their families and can also build quality into services. It believes that these 7 keys can help people to take action on three levels: personal change; local change in communities; and political change. Sections look at each of the seven principles in turn, and outline how they can provide a framework for improving the lives of people with disabilities. The 7 keys to citizenship are: purpose – having goals, hopes and dreams and a structure for life and a plan to achieve this; freedom – having control and the ability to be heard; money – having enough money to live a good life and control over how that money is spent; home – having a place that belongs to us; help – having good help that enhances our gifts, talents and skills; life – making an active contribution to our communities; Love – having loving relationships. (Edited publisher abstract)
Promoting independence, preventing dependency
- Author:
- PARROTT Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 18(4), 2013, pp.161-170.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose – There are major pressures on social care funding for people with learning disabilities. It is unsustainable to continue working in the same way. The need to promote independence and prevent the need for social care for people with a learning disability is urgent. The purpose of this paper is to highlight key issues, stimulate debate and strengthen the evidence base. Design/methodology/approach: The paper takes evidence from research, literature reviews, statistics and policy debates. It illustrates key points with case studies. The argument for change has been developed in discussion with key stakeholders including the chief executive of a leading self-advocacy organisation. Findings: Demand is increasing whilst funding is reducing. Policy, practice and evidence on prevention of the need for social care for people with a learning disability are underdeveloped. Nevertheless, there are many examples of good practice, and of emerging opportunities for local partnerships to work together to build a new approach. Research limitations/implications: Research on the benefits and costs of prevention of social care for people with a learning disability is underdeveloped. There is a need to extend the evidence base on the range of interventions and their effectiveness. Originality/value: The paper argues for a step change in culture, practice and the focus of research. (Publisher abstract)
Challenges of residential and community care: ‘the times they are a-changin’
- Author:
- JACKSON R.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 55(9), September 2011, pp.933-944.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
In this review the author examines a number of issues around the provision of appropriate and high-quality residential and community care for people with intellectual disabilities. He reflects on some of the themes emerging from this Special Issue of the Journal of Intellectual Disability Research: normalisation; inclusion; choice; and regulation. It is concluded that the research community has an obligation to assume a higher profile at a time when the quality of life of people with an intellectual disability and their families is under threat. The author suggests that this can be done in several ways, through: the establishment of demonstration projects, either independently or in association with the voluntary and statutory sector, to explore innovative and practical approaches of enhancing the quality of services offered this group; looking at ways of improving the quality of training programmes for care staff, moving away from approaches that emphasise narrow instrumental competencies to strategies that develop essential expressive and relational aspects of care practice; and offering a more considered and rigorous critique of current professional practice and assuming a leadership role at a time when, it is suggested, leadership in this field is lacking.
First steps to your health and social care learning disability qualifications
- Author:
- ASSOCIATION FOR REAL CHANGE
- Publisher:
- Association for Real Change
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- loose leaf
- Place of publication:
- Chesterfield
A loose leaf training pack covering all of the learning outcomes in the eight Refreshed Common Induction Standards and three Qualification Credit Framework (QCF) units. The pack has sections covering: The role of the health and social care worker; Personal development; Communicating effectively; Equality and Inclusion; Duty of care in health, social care or children's and young people's settings; Principles of safeguarding in health and social care; Person-centred support; Health and safety in an adult social care setting. Exercises are included throughout. It also includes a QCF candidate registration form for the QCF units and assignments to complete and questions for a manager to ask a staff member once they have completed the training
Intellectual disability and social inclusion: a critical review
- Editors:
- BOLLARD Martin, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- Churchill Livingston
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 194p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This book offers an exclusive insight into the challenges faced by people with learning disabilities trying to access mainstream health and social services, and by the professionals who are trying to provide them. The combination of professional perspectives and viewpoints of people with learning disabilities themselves creates an authoritative explanation of why this group of people face the barriers they do. The contributors critique these barriers and also offer potential solutions to overcoming them. Fifteen chapters, each written by individual authors, are included: one story; a review and critique; the legacy of 'valuing people' in England; policy in Scotland: implementing the 'same as you'; will 'equal lives' be achieved in Northern Ireland?; intellectual disability with mental health problems; let's be patient: hospital admissions; primary care and intellectual disability; looks like leisure?; getting into employment; accessing further education; equal rights to housing; ethnicity and intellectual disability; and service users' involvement in higher education.