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Choosing staff: involving people with learning difficulties in staff recruitment
- Authors:
- TOWNSLEY Ruth, MACADAM Margaret
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 94p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
More organisations are beginning to involve people with learning difficulties in choosing staff, and service users themselves have highlighted this issue as crucial if they are to be fully involved in planning and delivering services. The authors explored the extent and nature of user involvement in recruiting staff for statutory, voluntary and private day and residential services.
Beginnings: participatory action research and adults with developmental disabilities
- Author:
- SAMPLE Pat L.
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 11(3), September 1996, pp.317-332.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Discusses the emergence of Participatory Action Research (PAR), and its use with individuals with cognitive disabilities. A brief history of PAR is given, with a focus on its uses for empowerment and self-determination for persons with disabilities. Using literature-based standards for participatory, action and emancipatory research approaches, a 3-year research project with goals of increasing community participation by adults with developmental disabilities is described and evaluated. Describes lessons learned concerning the use of PAR with people with developmental disabilities and concludes with a brief discussion of the feasibility of PAR with individuals with cognitive challenges.
What would make services good?: quality standards in services for people with learning disabilities; a user perspective
- Author:
- WINTERSGILL Cathy
- Publisher:
- Leeds Coalition
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 29p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
Research study identifying quality standards for services for people with learning difficulties, based on the views of users.
Unlocking the imagination: strategies for purchasing services for people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- DUFFY Simon
- Publisher:
- Choice
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 50p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Presents a person centred framework for provision of services to people with learning difficulties, focusing in particular on purchasing strategies.
Involving people with learning difficulties in staff recruitment: findings
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
More organisations are beginning to involve people with learning difficulties in choosing staff, and service users themselves have highlighted the issue as crucial if they are to be fully involved in planning and delivering services. The authors explored the extent and nature of user involvement in recruiting staff for statutory, voluntary and private day and residential services.
Learning difficulties
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 2, October 1996, pp.11-15.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Describes how services which have involved people with learning difficulties in the recruitment of staff have found that it means better and more suitable staff are appointed, but there are concerns to be allayed before proceeding. Reports on a study of supported employment which has found it is more satisfying for service users than traditional day services, with jobs being found for those with both mild and severe difficulties.
Personnel services
- Authors:
- TOWNSLEY Ruth, MACADAM Margaret
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.10.96, 1996, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Explains how fully involving service users in the selection of new staff can have positive results for employment practice, with benefits to staff and their clients.
A little help from a friend to reach the 'unachievable'
- Author:
- COLLINS Jean
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 2(4), June 1996, pp.13-14.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Discusses the importance of the decision to include people with learning disabilities in the Community Care (Direct Payments) Bill.
Ways to work
- Authors:
- RITCHIE Pete, JONES Chris, BRODERICK Laura
- Publisher:
- SHS Limited
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 80p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Aims to offer advice and encouragement to people who want to convert their day services from a service controlled model based on segregation to a person centred model based on inclusion. Designed mainly for those who managed day centres directly or indirectly.
Innovations in evaluating services for people with intellectual disabilities
- Editor:
- McCONKEY Roy
- Publisher:
- Lisieux Hall Publications
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 186p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Chorley, Lancs.
The contributors to this volume point out that measuring the measurable is no guarantee that those variables exert a primary influence on service quality for people with intellectual disabilities. Other factors which are less tangible are needed to produce this outcome. Topics discussed include: involving service users; common sense evaluation; service costs; empowering front line staff; and the evaluator's role in developing quality.