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Connecting people: the steps to making it happen
- Author:
- WIGHTMAN Clare
- Publisher:
- Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 17p., DVD
- Place of publication:
- London
This report concerns people with higher support needs, whose treatment, it says, is scandalous. It discusses connecting with people, why building relationships matters, getting the basics right, knowing what community connecting looks like, ending with tips for connectors on asking.
What makes a good self advocacy project: a toolkit
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 40
- Place of publication:
- London
A toolkit to help self-advocacy groups to plan, design and run projects. It covers: planning a new project, running a project, checking that your project is working, deciding if your project was a success and sharing good ideas from your project with other people. It will be useful for self-advocacy groups, run by and for people with learning disabilities, and those funding self-advocacy groups, such as local authorities and charities. The toolkit is in easy read format and was developed with funding from the Big Lottery through DRILL (Disability Research through Independent Living and Learning). (Edited publisher abstract)
Borders Finding Out project: employment workshop
- Author:
- BORDERS FINDING OUT PROJECT
- Publisher:
- Outside the Box Development Support
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 18p.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
The Borders Finding Out project brings together people who have learning disabilities, families, people who work in services for people with learning disabilities and people who are interested in everyone having the chance to do what they want. A report from a workshop in Hawick on 16 November 2006 with the Fife Employability Team is presented. The benefits of people with learning disabilities working are outlined.
Getting work and being included
- Author:
- OUTSIDE THE BOX
- Publisher:
- Outside the Box Development Support
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
Outside the Box will be working with people in Borders who have learning disabilities and people with mental health problems, to look at what helps people get into work. The first stage of the project is looking at what helps people get into work and what the problems are and about different types of work. Ways to get involved in the project are outlined.
An easy guide to direct payments in Scotland: giving you choice and control over your social work services
- Author:
- SCOTTISH CONSORTIUM FOR LEARNING DISABILITY
- Publisher:
- Scottish Consortium for Learning Disability
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 31p.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
A book aimed at people who may be using direct payments. It outlines how direct payments work and the new rules covering direct payments which started in June 2003. It uses picture case studies to illustrate how direct payments work.
Reporting without prejudice: a journalist's guide to writing about learning disability and Mencap
- Author:
- MENCAP
- Publisher:
- Mencap
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 3p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Guide for journalists writing about Mencap and learning disability.
A guide for parents. The Education (Additional Support for Learning)(Scotland) Act 2004: 2nd edition
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
The same as you?: a review of services for people with learning disabilities: a summary
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive. Social Work Services Inspectorate
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 2p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Person-centred future planning
- Authors:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publishers:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Pagination:
- 4
- Place of publication:
- London
A quick guide to help practitioners to support people growing older with learning disabilities when they are planning for the future. The guide covers person-centred planning for now, core principles for planning for the future; creating a future plan; and planning for future housing. The content is based on the NICE guideline on 'Care and support of people growing older with learning disabilities.' The quick guide is available as a pdf and as an interactive web resource. (Edited publisher abstract)
Commissioning person-centred, cost-effective, local support for people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, EMERSON Eric, et al
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 54p.
- Place of publication:
- London
SCIE knowledge review on commissioning person-centred, cost-effective, local support for people with learning disabilities who are labelled as having complex needs and/or challenging behaviour. This review addresses concerns about the number of adults with learning disabilities receiving various forms of supported accommodation services who are living away from the communities to which they belong (ie, are ‘placed out-of-area’).