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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.
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.
Creating more choice for people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Government policies across the UK challenge service providers to make sure that people with learning difficulties are central to planning the services that affect them. 'Helping Each Other For A Better World' is a consultancy team of six people with learning difficulties. They visited five places in England and Wales where new things were happening for people with learning difficulties during the day to find out what had changed and how change had happened.
The importance and availability of peer support for people with learning difficulties accessing direct payments
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
New regulations which came into force in 2003 in England (and similar measures in Wales in 2004) mean that local authorities do not just have the power to offer direct payments; they now have a duty to offer them to eligible people. In theory, this should mean far higher numbers of people receiving direct payments, including people with learning difficulties. But key to take-up of direct payments is the availability of effective support to access and manage them. There are very few independent direct payments support schemes run by and for people with learning difficulties. Most independent direct payments support is provided by existing disabled people's organisations or direct payments schemes set up for the purpose. There are some very good examples but most independent direct payments support schemes have limited or no involvement by people with learning difficulties. There are different views and expectations about what 'independent' support means. The quality of support is crucial, not just its independence from statutory services. Assumptions about consent and ability to manage direct payments can block people with learning difficulties from accessing support and these can be held equally by independent support schemes as by statutory services. Sometimes an individual with appropriate attitudes, information and experience, whether based in independent support agencies or within social services, can have more effect in enabling people with learning difficulties to access direct payments than an independent contract that is given to those with little knowledge or experience about including people with learning difficulties. Local issues and assumptions around funding, tendering and contracts have a big influence on whether people with learning difficulties are included in support schemes and whether contracts are given to groups of people with learning difficulties.
Supporting disabled adults in their parenting role
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
A Task Force on Supporting Disabled Adults in their Parenting Role received evidence that people with physical impairments, sensory impairments, learning difficulties, mental health difficulties, long-term illness or HIV/AIDS experience common barriers to receiving appropriate support in their parenting role. The Task Force consisted of representatives from government, social services, voluntary organisations and disabled parents' organisations. It took evidence from parents, professionals and researchers.