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A sensitive mission
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 28.1.00, 2000, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author talks to members of an older people's team who performed a delicate balancing act to protect an elderly widow and her daughter with learning difficulties without upsetting family relationships.
Independent support
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 10.12.98, 1998, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author looks at the risks involved in providing support to someone with learning difficulties who doesn't recognise their own needs.
Private lives?
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.6.98, 1998, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Describes the problem posed for a manager of a residential unit for adults with learning difficulties, when one of the men living there has started a sexual relationship with another resident and his mother is very unhappy about it.
A real and present danger
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.7.99, 1999, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Finds out how a social worker calculated the risk of reoffending when a sex offender with learning difficulties came before the court.
The dangers of a normal life
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.3.99, 1999, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Asks what do you do when a service user with learning difficulties and mental illness wants to return to normal life but, when she is given her wish, her life breaks down into dangerous behaviour.