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Self-advocacy for people with learning difficulties: does it have a future
- Author:
- ASPIS Simone
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 12(4), September 1997, pp.647-654.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Discusses self-advocacy for people learning difficulties and presents a self-advocacy framework model which includes all the elements needed to advocate and achieve permanent change.
The case of the missing advocate
- Authors:
- HOLMAN Andrew, ASPIS Simone
- Journal article citation:
- Viewpoint, 26, March 1998, p.10.
- Publisher:
- Mencap/Gateway
Discusses the Lord Chancellor's consultation paper Who Decides?, Making Decisions on Behalf of Mentally Incapacitated Adults. The authors challenge the view that other people always know best.
Independent living for disabled people
- Author:
- ASPIS Simone
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 8(4), December 2005, pp.34-36.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The Government’s 2005 Green paper on Adult Social Care put forward a vision of ‘independence, well-being and choice’. While the notion of independent living was central to the vision and to the substantive policy proposals presented in the Green Paper, there was no definition of what ‘independent living’ actually means. The British Council of Disabled People (BCDP) supports many of the ideas in the Green Paper, such as the proposed introduction of individualised budgets. It also has concerns about the continuing lack of basic rights to receive support and to live independently in one’s own home, and about the way in which the new vision will be financed and implemented. This article looks at some of the concerns of the BCDP.