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Choosing staff: involving people with learning difficulties in staff recruitment
- Authors:
- TOWNSLEY Ruth, MACADAM Margaret
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 94p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
More organisations are beginning to involve people with learning difficulties in choosing staff, and service users themselves have highlighted this 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.
‘It's about a dialogue...’ Working with people with learning difficulties to develop accessible information
- Authors:
- WARD Linda, TOWNSLEY Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 33(2), June 2005, pp.59-64.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Examines the importance of targeting information needs to match that of people with learning disabilities. It is argued that a partnership between 'expert' or experienced information user and those new to the area can be forged, but that it needs to occur throughout every stage of information production. Evaluating the information after it is produced is also highlighted as important. In conclusion the author reviews how working in partnership has both costs and benefits. The article is based on experience from the Information for All project.
Access to independent advocacy: an evidence review
- Authors:
- TOWNSLEY Ruth, MARRIOTT Anna, WARD Linda
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Office for Disability Issues
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 167p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This review sets out to investigate the nature and extent of evidence relating to independent advocacy for disabled people at risk of losing choice and control in four specific situations: during transition to adulthood; when the children of disabled parents are subject to safeguarding procedures; when entry to residential care is a possibility; when disabled people are victims or alleged perpetrators of anti-social behaviour. In doing so, it describes and evaluates evidence about the need, costs and benefits associated with independent advocacy. The final section summarises the state of the evidence base currently available and the gaps therein, and suggests what additional research is needed to further our knowledge in this field.
Access to independent advocacy: an evidence review: executive summary
- Authors:
- TOWNSLEY Ruth, MARRIOTT Anna, WARD Linda
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Office for Disability Issues
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 7p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This is the executive summary of a review which sets out to investigate the nature and extent of evidence relating to independent advocacy for disabled people at risk of losing choice and control in four specific situations: during transition to adulthood; when the children of disabled parents are subject to safeguarding procedures; when entry to residential care is a possibility; when disabled people are victims or alleged perpetrators of anti-social behaviour. In doing so, it describes and evaluates evidence about the need, costs and benefits associated with independent advocacy. The final section summarises the state of the evidence base currently available and the gaps therein, and suggests what additional research is needed to further our knowledge in this field.