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What we need: a survey of the needs of families caring for a member with a mental handicap in Kidderminster Health District
- Authors:
- KIDDERMINSTER AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL, KIDDERMINSTER AND DISTRICT HEALTH AUTHORITY
- Publisher:
- Kidderminster and District Community Health Council/Kidderminster and District H
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 71p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Kidderminster
Results of a survey of the needs of 136 families.
Service evaluation by people with learning difficulties
- Authors:
- WHITTAKER Andrea, GARDNER Simon, KERSHAW Joyce
- Publisher:
- King's Fund
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 128p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Based on the People First report commissioned by North West Thames Regional Health Authority. Provides an independent evaluation of services to people with learning difficulties. Gives a service users view of moving from institutional care to ordinary houses in the community.
Adulthood and people with mental handicaps: report of a research project
- Author:
- WALMSLEY Jan
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap Research, 4(2), 1991, pp.141-154.
- Publisher:
- BIMH Publications
Describes a small project which used research interviews to discover the meaning of adulthood to the research participants, five adults with mental handicaps. The project set out to design a research process which would respect their status as adults. The paper focuses on the research process, and the merits and difficulties of the approach are discussed in the context of research methodologies which emphasise the need to redress the power imbalance inherent in more traditional methods.
Someone to turn to
- Authors:
- ROBINSON Carol, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.5.91, 1991, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Describes the pattern of respite care schemes in the U.K. and highlights the resource implications for users and respite carers.
Still a small voice: consumer involvement in the All Wales Strategy; a survey of local authority perspectives
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Welsh Office
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Welsh Office
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 42p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Surveys 8 county councils, and 96 settings with 755 residents to see whether services were accountable to consumers, and whether, in residential life, people had a positive choice.
People with learning difficulties: Amber Valley
- Authors:
- PUREWAL Sardip, SLATER Wendy
- Publisher:
- Derbyshire. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 34p.,tables,diags.
- Place of publication:
- Matlock
Results of a census of Derbyshire Social Services Department clients in Amber Valley with learning difficulties.