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Reflecting on change: consumers' views of the impact of the All-Wales strategy
- Authors:
- TODD Stuart, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap, 21(4), December 1993, pp.128-136.
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Mental Handicap
Reports on the views of users of services for people with learning difficulties in Wales living in the community.
The cloak of competence
- Author:
- EDGERTON Robert B
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 271p.
- Place of publication:
- Berkeley, CA
Follow up of a study of previously institutionalised people with learning difficulties in the United States.
The right to know: informing people with learning difficulties-some issues and possibilities
- Author:
- MOFFATT Virginia
- Publisher:
- Southwark Inform
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 18p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report arising out of wide consultation in the borough of Southwark with service users, carers and service providers. Outlines issues for consideration in providing information for people with learning difficulties, the major information needs of service users and identifies some possible methods of improving accessibility.
Dundee residential project: the first two years
- Author:
- HUGHES Mike
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 32p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Dundee
Study tracing the early history and describing the first 2 years of a community care project for children and young people with a mental handicap. Examines the expectations families have of staff, and the characteristics of the young people who were referred for consideration.
Uncertain future: experiences and expectations of people with mental handicaps of life beyond the hospital and hostel
- Author:
- DAY Peter R.
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap Research, 2(2), 1989, pp.166-185.
- Publisher:
- BIMH Publications
Reports on interviews with clients and staff.
Emergent voices. Exploring the lived experience of seniors with intellectual disability
- Authors:
- HUTCHINSON Gunn Strand, SANDVIN Johans Tveit
- Journal article citation:
- European Journal of Social Work, 22(5), 2019, pp.738-748.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
In Norway, as in many European countries, there has been a major change in living conditions for people with intellectual disability over the last 30 years. State policy has changed, involving the reduction of institutional care with the aim of normalising people’s life situations and service provision. A challenge in the early years of reform was a lack of first-hand experiences. Researchers attempting to interview people with intellectual disabilities themselves about moving out of institutions concluded that this was methodologically problematic, as informants tended to answer what they thought was expected of them. While this may also reflect features of the research at that time, many of those with first-hand experiences of the reform have later confirmed that they had but a weak voice of their own. Today, their voices are stronger, and many of them provide important testimonies of the ‘true consequences’ of the reform. This article reveals some of these testimonies. Through in-depth interviews, six people with intellectual disabilities tell about their institutional lives and their present lives in the community. The strongest testimony to the reform is perhaps our informants’ ability to give words to, and reflect on, what was previously just a silent pain. (Edited publisher abstract)
Care services for people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour: fifty-first report of session 2014-15: report, together with formal minutes relating to the report
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts
- Publisher:
- TSO
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 20
- Place of publication:
- London
Examines progress made in fulfilling the government commitment, following the Winterbourne View scandal in 2011, to discharging inpatients with learning difficulties and challenging behaviour back to their homes and communities. The inquiry found that the number of people with learning disabilities remaining in hospital has not fallen, and has been broadly stable at around 3,200. The report recognises the complexity of the task in designing and commissioning a model of community based care and welcomes the commitment to set out, within the next six months, a closure programme for large mental health hospitals, and to provide a transition plan for people within these hospitals, from 2016–17. The report recommends that proper consideration be given not just to building capacity in the community, but also to enshrining in law patients’, and their families’, right to challenge the decisions taken, whether they are about treatment, admission to mental health hospital, or community care services provided. (Edited publisher abstract)
Insistent voices: stories on claiming identity
- Author:
- TAYLOR Tony
- Publisher:
- Kingston Advocacy Group
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 60p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Account of the lives of five individuals with learning difficulties told by them with the support of the author. Other accounts of the lives of people with learning difficulties who have moved from an institution to a home of their own and their struggle for citizenship have been written. This account stands out from the others in two respects. Firstly, this is one of the very first, and possibly, the first example nationally, of people with learning difficulties moving from a hospital setting to a home of their own. The second aspect of the account that makes it stand out from most others is the author's ongoing and enduring relationship with the former residents.
Great expectations: experiences of supported living
- Author:
- WERTHEIMER Alison
- Publisher:
- National Development Team
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 70p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Captures some of the early experiences of supported living for people with learning difficulties via the stories of six people and how they experienced supported living.
Community care: Britain's other lottery; a Mencap report on the practice of care management and assessment for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- SINGH Peter
- Publisher:
- Mencap
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 67p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report examining the actual process of care management and assessment for people with learning difficulties. Based on the views, experiences and perceptions of people with learning difficulties, carers, care managers, and principal officers.