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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.
Disabled children and the Children Act
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The Children Act 1989 lays down certain regulations to safeguard all children undergong periods of care ('accommodated' or 'looked after' children). Describes research into how social services departments are fulfilling their duties under the Children Act to disabled children.
Independent travel and people with learning disabilities: the views of a sample of service providers on whether this need is being met
- Authors:
- SLEVIN Eamonn, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities for Nursing Health and Social Care, 2(4), December 1998, pp.195-202.
This article describes part of a larger study that involved interviewing clients, carers and service providers to investigate barriers to independent travel for people with severe learning disabilities. The initial part of the study, reported here, involved interviewing service providers. Aims were to identify the number of clients on travel programmes, perceived barriers and suggestions to promote independent travel. Findings indicated that although independent travels was viewed as a valuable skill for people with learning disabilities to possess, there were relatively few who practised this. The most significant obstacles to independent travel were suggested to be clients' cognitive abilities, and the wishes of carers, who according to the study, often did not wish the client to be involved due to perceived risks. Recommendations are made regarding practices to promote independent travel.
All together now
- Author:
- STEELE Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.9.98, 1998, p.6.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on a scheme in the North West where social services and the NHS are working in tandem to plan and commission services for people with learning difficulties.
Welfare agencies and risk: the missing link?
- Author:
- ALASZEWSKI Andy
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 6(1), January 1998, pp.4-15.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Focuses on the issues of risk affecting the social welfare of adults with learning disabilities and vulnerable children. Examines how and why risk influences the nature and operations of welfare agencies. Using data collected from a sample of welfare agencies providing care and support for either vulnerable children or adults with a learning disability, examines how agencies respond to and manage risk.
Primary health care and health gain for people with a learning disability
- Author:
- KERR Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 3(4), October 1998, pp.6-14.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Evidence suggests that the current delivery of primary care to people with a learning disability does not adequately meet their needs. This review examines this evidence, highlights barriers to the effective delivery of health care and assesses these barriers, pilot projects and the few intervention studies published. Concludes that effective response to health needs will need a change in the working patterns of primary, secondary and social care providers. The contracting system and the move to locality-based purchasing may be the ideal catalysts for these changes.
Implementing adult protection policies in Kent and East Sussex
- Authors:
- BROWN Hilary, STEIN June
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 27(3), July 1998, pp.371-396.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
Reports on the extent and nature of adult protection cases dealt with by two social services departments during a twelve month period in 1995-6, within the framework of newly revised generic policies on abuse of vulnerable adults. The two counties varied in the level of reporting documented and in the number of cases logged for individuals who fall within the main four groups of 'vulnerable adults' covered by the policies. Arguments for consistent reporting are set out and the tension which exists between formal and informal approaches to the subsequent investigation of abuse discussed with reference to American vulnerable adult statutes.