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Getting better all the time?: issues and strategies for ensuring quality in community services for people with mental handicap; papers and reports from a workshop May 7th - 9th 1986
- Editor:
- WARD Linda
- Publisher:
- Kings Fund Centre
- Publication year:
- 1986
- Pagination:
- 88p., bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Defines quality and looks at practical approaches to pursuing quality in both residential and community support services. Includes section on planning for quality when developing services.
A part of community: social integration and neighbourhood networks
- Authors:
- ATKINSON Dorothy, WARD Linda
- Publisher:
- Campaign for People with Mental Handicap
- Publication year:
- 1986
- Pagination:
- 11p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
People first: developing services in the community for people with mental handicap. A review of the literature
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Publisher:
- King's Fund Centre
- Publication year:
- 1982
- Pagination:
- 160p.,bibliog.,list of orgns.
- Place of publication:
- London
Learning difficulties
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 1999, pp.28-30.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Asks how people with learning difficulties can be empowered to live "ordinary lives". Looks at some answers to this question that may be found in the USA, the country that has led the way.
Home rules
- Authors:
- WARD Linda, KINSELLA Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 12.8.93, 1993, pp.20-22.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
In the U.K. group housing for people with learning difficulties can still have institutional regimes and be far from home for the residents. In the U.S.A. there have been moves in recent years towards support living - individually-organised packages for individuals in their own homes. Options in Community Living in Madison, Wisconsin is one such scheme, which has been in operation for the last ten years. Learning from experiences in the U.S.A., the National Development Team is to establish a Supported Living Initiative in the U.K., hoping to take over where the 'Ordinary Life' movement left off.
Planning for people: developing a local service for people with mental handicap. 1, Recruiting and training staff
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Publisher:
- King's Fund Centre
- Publication year:
- 1984
- Pagination:
- 99p.,bibliog.,diags.
- Place of publication:
- London
Learning difficulties
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 1, April 1996, pp.18-20.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Looking at research relating to people with learning difficulties says there are hard lessons to be learned, but there are also positive signs of what can be achieved if those lessons are learned.
Supporting roles
- Authors:
- KINSELLA Peter, WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.7.93, 1993, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A shadow has been cast over group homes for people with learning difficulties. Research on the schemes revealed that many residents in the homes do not really choose where they are going to live, with whom, their support staff, their routines or their expenditure. As the major residential alternative to hospitals and hostels for people with learning difficulties the life style offered is still often powerless and controlled. In the United States there has been a strong movement towards Supported living, where many people receive a mixture of paid and informal supports which are individually planned and arranged around them; and in the UK the National Development Team for people with learning difficulties is just launching its Supported Living Initiative. Looks at the future in supported living.