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Finding your way: how to get help from social services
- Author:
- MENCAP
- Publisher:
- Mencap
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 9p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The booklet explains community care as the help and support given to older people or people with a learning or physical disability, to help them live more independently in their own home, in a residential home or with their family. People can get help to do things like cook meals, shop, pay bills, bath or do housework.
Food for thought
- Authors:
- CLARKE John, NEWTON Craig
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.3.94, 1994, p.20.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how a Community Awareness programme in Oldham has been used to change school children's perceptions of people with special needs, and outlines the methods used.
Bexley and company jump the Griffiths gun
- Author:
- FRY A.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 2.3.89, 1989, p.8.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Reports on Bexley SSD's links with Social Policy Management Services Ltd., a not-for-profit private company which is providing community care for over one hundred mentally handicapped people, a relationship of the type envisaged by the Griffiths Report.
A taste of life in the community
- Author:
- EATON L.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 10.11.88, 1988, p.7.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Looks at how Somerset SSD is gradually taking complete responsibility for services to the mentally handicapped.
Stepping out in Hackney
- Author:
- COLE Angela
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 4(4), June 1998, pp.12-16.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Outlines Hackney social services five-year plan to change and improve the level and range of daily opportunities for people with learning difficulties. So far the plan has led to the new community support teams, a re-organisation of social services "in-house" provision to create small projects, the development of a new supported employment team, and the closure of a day centre building, among many other things. Describes the key elements of the plan and its implementation.
Rise to the challenge
- Author:
- BOND Henrietta
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.10.97, 1997, p.28.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Discusses how people with learning difficulties and challenging behaviour need not be 'a danger to society' if they are properly supported in the community.
Direct payments for people with learning difficulties: findings
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The Community Care (Direct Payments) Act 1996 came into force on 1 April 1997. It empowers local authorities to make cash payments to people with disabilities, including learning difficulties, for the purchase of their community care arrangements. People with learning difficulties and their supporters are already recognising the potential benefits, but few preparations have yet been made, according to recent research undertaken for Values Into Action by the authors. Describes the findings of the study, which interviewed people with learning difficulties, support schemes and local authorities.
Specialization without separation: combining health and social services provision for people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- BURTON Mark, KELLAWAY Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 3(4), July 1995, pp.261-270.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Responsibility for services to people with learning disabilities has shifted back and forth between health and social services authorities over the years. A resolution to the problems of the split service which has been promoted is that of joint commissioning. However, in Manchester an alternative approach to collaboration has been developed; joint provision. Looks at how this has been established.
Competition or co-operation?
- Authors:
- CUMMINGS Elspeth, JAYES Paul, McGINNIS Brian
- Journal article citation:
- Management Issues in Social Care, 2(4), 1995, pp.8-13.
- Publisher:
- OLM Systems
An account of a fringe meeting on multi-agency working for clients with learning difficulties, at the Social Services Conference at Bournemouth, on September 21st 1995.
Joint commissioning of services for people with learning disabilities: a review of the principles and the practice
- Author:
- WADDINGTON Paul
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 23(1), 1995, pp.2-10.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The aim of the article is to enhance practitioner understanding of the potentials and problems of joint commissioning. Discusses principles, the implications for learning disability services and provides examples of joint commissioning practice.