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Learning difficulties
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 18, October 2004, pp.25-32.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Asks how much, 3 years after publication, the white paper 'Valuing people' has translated into practice on the ground. Summarises the 'Making Valuing people work' project. Discusses information presentation, the spirit of co-operation, and the influence of the board chair. Lists points for practice on user and carer involvement, and how good the partnership board is in involving carers, and key points.
What matters is what works
- Author:
- DAVIES Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Llais, 72, Spring 2004, pp.10-12.
- Publisher:
- Learning Disability Wales
Conwy Connect helps people with learning difficulties to take part in making decisions that effect their lives, and an opportunity to participate in the planning of services. Explains what they do and how they do it.
Self-advocacy in historical perspective
- Authors:
- BUCHANAN Ian, WALMSLEY Jan
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 34(3), September 2006, pp.133-138.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This paper looks at the history of self advocacy in England. It then considers different constructions of self-advocacy as they have emerged over the last 25 years. The authors highlight the tension between self-advocacy as a means for individuals to gain a voice, and affirm identity, and self-advocacy as a collective movement representing the interests of a particular group. The final section is a commentary on the states of self-advocacy in the UK. After Valuing People, people expect self advocacy organizations to speak up for everyone with learning difficulties. The authors argue it is possible to see self-advocacy as a form collective representation privileged over self-advocacy as a means to develop and affirm individual identity. The importance of finding ways to support self advocacy groups, especially those run by people themselves, to avoid this happening.
How was it for you?
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Viewpoint, July 2004, pp.14-17.
- Publisher:
- Mencap/Gateway
Reports on new research by the Norah Fry Research Centre, 'Making valuing people work: strategies for change in services for people with learning disabilities', which looks into carers' experiences on Learning Disability Partnership Boards which exposes the shortcomings of the way many boards function.
Committed to change?: promoting the involvement of people with learning difficulties in staff recruitment
- Authors:
- TOWNSLEY Ruth, et al
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 72p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
The authors explain how they set up a training and development programme to promote the involvement of people with learning difficulties in staff recruitment. The report shows how practitioners and service users can be encouraged and supported to put research into action and to use research evidence to improve practice and promote change within their own organisations. The report explores the process of working with five organisations to implement user involvement in staff recruitment and examines: the four main steps of the 'Learning to choose staff' training and development programme; how the project team supported people with learning difficulties, support workers, managers and policy makers to work and learn together; and the strategies used by participants to promote, change and develop practice and policy relating to user involvement in choosing staff.
Becoming a learning organization: a precondition for person centred services to people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- ILES Ian K.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities, 7(1), March 2003, pp.65-77.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Following the White Paper Valuing People, person centred planning is now firmly on the agenda of services to people with learning difficulties in England. Person centred planning has its foundations in communities of practice that have innovated and developed person centred approaches to action planning for disabled people. This article suggests that services will need to undergo some radical re-visioning of their ways of working if they are to make a meaningful reality of person centred planning. It is further suggested that services need to become learning organizations, committed to values of inclusion and to living those values in their practice. Further, by promoting and celebrating innovation and creativity, by flattening hierarchical structures and promoting social entrepreneurship and cooperative working and inquiry, services can further develop person centredness in what they do and make a reality of the rhetoric in Valuing People.
Promoting the involvement of people with learning difficulties in staff recruitment
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The 'Learning to choose staff' project aimed to promote and support the involvement of people with learning difficulties in staff recruitment.Project workers designed and evaluated a training and development programme for working with five different organisations providing services to people with learning difficulties in England.
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.