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Disaster time
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.10.96, 1996, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Two surveys have shown community care services for people with learning difficulties are heavily under funded. Describes how campaigning groups are worried that unless something is done soon they are heading for disaster.
Policy to protect
- Author:
- MAPP Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.6.96, 1996, p.10.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author reports on a policy for handling allegations of abuse involving people with learning difficulties which is the result of pioneering inter-agency co-operation in Manchester.
Proposals for a 'Mental Incapacity Bill' to provide additional safeguards to vulnerable adults
- Author:
- DIESFELD Kate
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 1(2), April 1996, pp.34-37.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Although the Registered Homes Act 1984 provides some protection for people with learning disabilities living in registered homes, the Law Commission has identified the need for further safeguards. A draft Parliamentary Bill has been drawn up but as yet there are no plans to enact it. Using case studies, this article provides an analysis of Sections 36-44 of the Mental Incapacity Bill as it affects public law protection for people with learning difficulties who live in community settings. Asks whether we need any more protective legislation?
The fight-for-rights
- Author:
- THOMPSON Audrey
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.7.96, 1996, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author writes that disabled people, elderly people with learning difficulties are all speaking out loudly to be heard.
Quality living
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 6.6.96, 1996, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Describes how one social worker trod the fine line between respecting a client's wish to live independently while making sure that the move would not put him seriously at risk.
Sexual abuse by design: an examination of the issues in learning disability services
- Authors:
- McCARTHY Michelle, THOMPSON David
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 11(2), 1996, pp.205-217.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper is based upon ideas developed by the authors during their past 6 years work on issues of sexuality and sexual abuse in a wide range of learning disability settings in Britain. Argues that some features of service design in themselves make sexual abuse more likely to occur. Suggests ways of reducing risk, which should work alongside the more usually suggested educative approaches to individuals and groups of vulnerable people.