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Supported living and supported employment: opening up opportunities to people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Integrate News, 70, July 1998, pp.7-11.
Discusses how despite hospital resettlement programmes and the development of community care, people with learning difficulties often remain at risk of either being trapped in the family home or ending up in residential care. Similarly, although many would like to work, for the majority, a segregated day centre remains the only option. As a result, people with learning difficulties are too often socially and financially impoverished, vulnerable and living in, but rarely part of, their communities.
Transition from adolescence to young adulthood: is partnership working up to the task?
- Author:
- HUDSON Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Integrated Care, 11(4), August 2003, pp.43-47.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The transition from adolescence to young adulthood in young people with a learning disability is fraught with complexity. Looks at the policies and processes that should aid transition and considers the extent to which the challenges are currently being addressed.
Home, work and inclusion: the social policy implications of supported living and employment for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- SIMONS Ken
- Publisher:
- York Publishing Service/Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 119p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Report aiming to bring adults with learning difficulties to the forefront of emerging policy on social inclusion. Explores a range of social policy areas, including: housing and support services; the regulation of community care; the social security system; employment services; and access to adult and continuing education. In each case, the problems the current system poses for people with learning difficulties are described, and possible solutions are outlined.