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Getting in on the Act: a review of progress on special educational needs
- Author:
- AUDIT COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Audit Commission
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 7p.
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon
The key issues considered in this update are: more emphasis on enabling mainstream schools to manage children with special educational needs; reducing delays in assessment; and ensuring greater consistency of assessment.
Reform of regulation: revisiting Burgner
- Author:
- BRAMMER Alison
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 3(4), October 1998, pp.31-34.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Looks at the criticisms of the Registered Homes Act 1984 which were voiced by the Burgner Report.
Suffer the meek
- Author:
- RAINE Peter
- Journal article citation:
- ADSS Inform, 7(3), August 1998, pp.13-14.
Discusses a new report which highlights the steps needed to help protect vulnerable witnesses.
Best value for whom?
- Author:
- HOLMAN Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 12(1), July 1998, pp.18-20.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Cumbria is one of the 37 authorities to be chosen for a pilot project for the Government's 'Best Value' scheme and the only authority to specifically include learning difficulties in their application. This article looks at what it will mean for service users.
Difficult questions
- Author:
- WINTERSGILL Cathy
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Care, 1(11), July 1998, pp.379-381.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
People with learning difficulties know what they want from services, and are best placed to know how good they are. The author and colleagues describe how together they reviewed standards in local residential homes.
Southampton listening to users' views
- Author:
- HOLMAN Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 11(4), April 1998, pp.6-7.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Many organisations and service providers say one thing in their glossy brochures and do another in their actual provision. Reports on Southampton Community Trust's Charter for adults with learning disabilities.
Monitoring contracts for residential care: a case study
- Author:
- MILES Marilyn
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 3(2), April 1998, pp.38-43.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This paper reviews how social care contracting in learning disability services has developed in the UK, making use of experience in Berkshire. Particular areas identified as needing improvement were staff induction and training, care planning and review, meeting health needs, and building the setting and measuring of individual service outcomes into all areas of practice, especially provider internal quality-assurance. The limited role of the service user in the process is highlighted.
Signposts for success
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Viewpoint, 27, April 1998, p.6.
- Publisher:
- Mencap/Gateway
The NHS Executive has published Signposts for Success to promote good practice, and to clarify the role of the NHS in providing services in the community for people with learning disabilities. Summarises the main message.
Public research, private concerns: ethical issues in the use of open-ended interviews with people who have learning difficulties
- Authors:
- SWAIN John, HEYMAN Bob, GILLMAN Maureen
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 13(1), February 1998, pp.21-36.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Explores ethical dilemmas in open-ended interview research with people with learning difficulties. Address the possibility that research which gives voice to the experience of abuse, from the viewpoint of the victim, can itself be abusive. Argues that ethical dilemmas cannot be overcome solely by ethical codes or even predetermined 'good practice'. They are integral to the whole research process and necessitate continuous explicit examination of decision making processes within research.
Mental incapacity and decision-making: professional implications for social workers; executive summary
- Author:
- BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 19p.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Summary of a BASW position paper on mental incapacity and decision making.