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The empty rhetoric of inclusion
- Author:
- JACKSON Robin
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, 15(3), May/June 2015, pp.22-24.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The author argues that recent policies of inclusion with learning disabilities risk achieving the opposite effect as they fail to take into account the needs of this population. It raises the lack of specialist training course to equip teachers with the skills to teach pupils with learning disabilities; the marketisation of social care could result in of low cost services and poorly trained staff; the use of CCTV in care homes which could lead to a reduction in the numbers of skilled staff employed; and the financial vulnerability of many care homes, resulting in the ownership of care home falling into fewer hands. (Edited publisher abstract)
Who cares? The impact of ideology, regulation and marketisation on the quality of life of people with an intellectual disability
- Author:
- JACKSON Robin
- Publisher:
- Centre for Welfare Reform
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 49
- Place of publication:
- Sheffield
This report explores the recent history of services for people with intellectual disabilities (or learning disabilities) in the UK. It argues that services are slipping into the same institutional practices that were common at the beginning of the twentieth century. The reasons for this backward drift in policy and practice include: ideas like inclusion and normalisation have been interpreted in an overly simplistic manner, with one experience of disability dominating all other experiences; some forms of disabled people rights activism may exclude people with intellectual disability; charities are now largely service providers and increasingly passive in the face of pressure from government; regulation has led to increased bureaucracy and poorer human relationships; the marketisation of social care has eroded quality of support and reduced salaries, skills and securities; technological solutions are increasingly seen as the only solution to a funding crisis; and the dependence on private-sector care homes. The report urges to abandon the sterile academic debate about the meaning of inclusion; protect those parts of the social and health care sector that provide high quality services; and reform the disability charities sector to ensure they defend more effectively the interests of the populations they represent. (Edited publisher abstract)