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Money matters: helping people with learning difficulties have more control over their money
- Author:
- BEWLEY Catherine
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 121p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Relates the experiences of people with learning difficulties in relation to handling their own money and relates these to current legal and technical frameworks. Makes recommendations for major changes in legal practice and benefits regulations, and in the practice of services, families and people themselves.
Room for improvement
- Authors:
- ROBINSON Carole, MINKES John, WESTON Clive
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.7.93, 1993, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Research by the authors' into six geographically dispersed local authority homes providing short-term care for children with learning difficulties revealed that although the quality of physical and emotional care the children received was consistently high, few staff have implemented key principles of the Children Act; such as a requirement that children who are accommodated should have a comprehensive child care plan written in consultation with parents and the child. Recommends that services need to be more child-centred and ethnically sensitive and that this may be achieved through training and access to relevant information.
Social work with older people
- Authors:
- CRAWFORD Karin, WALKER Janet
- Publisher:
- Learning Matters
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 190p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Exeter
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
This book is an interactive resource with activities and case studies throughout the text. Contemporary research is used to illustrate key points. It covers all aspects of social work with older people and provides suggestions for further reading and links to current guidance and policy documents. The publication is part of a series written specifically to support students on social work degree courses. Contents include: values and ethics in social work with older people; the changing context of social work practice with older people; the legal, policy and political context of social work with older people; mental health and learning disability; sensory impairment and physical impairment; vulnerability and abuse; partnership and participation.
Supporting older families of people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- MORGAN Hazel, MAGILL Dalia
- Publisher:
- Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This is a briefing on the Foundation’s Older Family Carers Initiative. The three-year Initiative has come up with a clear set of policy messages to help health and social care service providers to meet the needs of older family carers and their relative with a learning disability. We have found that there is still a long way to go to ensure that older people’s services, carers’ services, learning disability services and the voluntary sector work together to implement fully the aspects of the Valuing People White Paper that relate to older families and to provide them with ongoing support. The briefing makes recommendations for policy makers, commissioners, Learning Disability and Older People’s Partnership Boards and the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities.
Benefit protection
- Author:
- SCOTT Judy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.9.03, 2003, pp.42-43.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at the complexities of involving users with mental health problems, learning difficulties and disabilities in service planning if their state benefits are to be protected. Discusses areas of relevant legislation: the benefits system, the Minimum Wage Act 1998, and employment law.
Innovations in advocacy and empowerment for people with intellectual disabilities
- Editor:
- WARD Linda
- Publisher:
- Lisieux Hall Publications
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 279p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Chorley, Lancs.
Focuses on advocacy and empowerment for people with learning difficulties. Includes chapters on: innovations in advocacy and empowerment; changing systems; self advocacy; the development of the international self advocacy movement; the impact of accessible information on people with learning difficulties; involving people with learning difficulties in the work of a public policy research institute; participation and empowerment through continuing education; empowerment through oral history and personal stories; setting up and running a health advocacy group for women; self advocacy by black people with learning difficulties; empowerment for older people; involving people with profound and multiple disabilities in person centred planning; involving people with learning difficulties in staff selection and recruitment; direct payments; partnerships in policy making; crime and the law; and helping people with learning difficulties to shape services.
Promoting a better life for people with learning disabilities and their families: a practical agenda for the new government
- Author:
- TOWELL David
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 25(3), 1997, pp.90-94.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
It is generally agreed that the goal of public policy should be to ensure that people with learning disabilities have the opportunities and support required to live 'ordinary lives' in the community. This paper identifies policy initiatives which a government could take to make a difference in many people's lives and signal its longer term commitment to achieving better lives for all.
The voice of the child: a handbook for professionals
- Editors:
- DAVIE Ronald, UPTON Graham, VARMA Ved
- Publisher:
- Falmer
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 184p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Handbook aimed at all professionals working with children. Includes papers on: the law in relation to the wishes and feelings of the child; listening to children in educational contexts; a social work perspective; eliciting children's views - the contribution of psychologists; the voice of the child in mental health practice; learning to listen to children; listening to children with disabilities and special educational needs; listening to and communicating with young children; gender issues; and race and the child's perspective.
Making things happen: first annual report of the Learning Disability Task Force, January 2003
- Author:
- LEARNING DISABILITY TASK FORCE
- Publisher:
- Learning Disability Task Force
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 59p.
- Place of publication:
- London
First official report to the government of the Task Force sets out the history of its setting up, its membership, methods of working and recommendations for policy change. Topics investigated in 2000 included advocacy, children's services, the Care Standards Commission, learning disability boards, cuts in social care and health provisions for people with learning difficulties and the Mental Health Bill. Future projects include investigating services for people from ethnic communities, communication methods for people with learning difficulties, NHS user support, carers and police liaison.
Signposts in fostering: policy, practice and research issues
- Editor:
- HILL Malcolm
- Publisher:
- British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 380p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Brings together seminal papers, previously published in the journal Adoption and Fostering, contributing to the shaping of fostering practice. Includes articles on: local authority fostering in Wales; a comparative survey of specialist fostering; developing leaving care services; recruiting and retaining foster carers; gender, sex and sexuality in the assessment of prospective carers; assessing Asian families in Scotland; involving birth parents in foster care training; using respite care to prevent long term family breakdown; short term family based care for children in need; short term foster care; meeting the needs of sibling groups in care; fostering as seen by the carers children; fostering children and young people with learning difficulties; the importance of networks to partnership in child centred foster care; how foster carers view contact; the role of social workers in supporting and developing the needs of foster carers; the social worker's experience of contact; social work and the education of children in foster care; the health of children looked after by the local authority; the statutory medical and health needs of looked after children; how foster parents experience social work with particular reference to placement endings; foster carers who cease to foster; the implications of recent child care research findings for foster care; and the foster child - the forgotten party.