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Freedom to budget
- Author:
- COHEN Phil
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 16.5.91, 1991, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Reports on the work of the East Suffolk Project run by the Children's Society in conjunction with Suffolk Social Services Department and Suffolk Health Authority. The service for children with learning difficulties has a flexicare devolved budget administered by a social worker.
"An ordinary life": the early views and experiences of residential staff in Wells Road Service
- Author:
- WARD L.
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap, 17(1), March 1989, pp.6-9.
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Mental Handicap
Research on staff reactions in recently established community and residential services.
Community care workers: part 3; an examination of the changes in clients skills and use of facilities
- Authors:
- de PAIVA Siobhan, LOWE Kathryn
- Publisher:
- Mental Handicap in Wales. Applied Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 41p., tables, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Evaluation of the service provided by Community Care Workers to mentally handicapped people in the NIMROD scheme.
Training for staff caring for people with learning disability
- Authors:
- SMITH Beryl, WUN Wai-Ling, CUMELLA Stuart
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 24(1), 1996, pp.20-25.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article considers the training of staff who care for people with learning disability in the community. Looks at the findings from a survey of staff in community units in the West Midlands which suggest that although most staff receive some training, this is largely a mixture of short in-service courses and there is a lack of consistency across the various agencies. The article argues that despite the considerable changes taking place within services for people with learning disability, which require new knowledge and skills, we are still far removed from having an explicit, relevant and agreed strategy for training 'front-line carers'. Present approaches are reviewed and recommendations made for future development.
Community care: Britain's other lottery; a Mencap report on the practice of care management and assessment for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- SINGH Peter
- Publisher:
- Mencap
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 67p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report examining the actual process of care management and assessment for people with learning difficulties. Based on the views, experiences and perceptions of people with learning difficulties, carers, care managers, and principal officers.
Caring for people with severe learning difficulties in ordinary houses
- Authors:
- HALLIDAY Sabrina, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap, 20(4), December 1992, pp.137-143.
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Mental Handicap
Evaluation of community care only rarely considers management issues and the stresses which arise from new work structures and situations. This study examined the changed role of community care staff and the support required to maintain an effective service. Factors identified as important stressors were working together in a smaller setting; being in the public gaze, and the risk-taking involved in client training programmes.
Training needs of community staff: what do they want?
- Authors:
- RAYNES N.V., SUMPTON R.C.
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap, 15(3), 1987, pp.95-97.
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Mental Handicap
Analyses the results of a study of the training needs of staff working in different settings of a joint health and social services programme for mentally handicapped adults.
Homes not hospitals
- Author:
- BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Key documents to support social workers to work preventatively, strengthen legal literacy and more specialised ways of working to avoid admissions to hospital, support, advocate and challenge on behalf of people currently in assessment and treatment units or restrictive settings to enable a return to home as soon as possible. Resources include: best practice commissioning with citizens and communities statement; the role of the social worker and legal literacy; examples of good practice; top tips for social workers. (Edited publisher abstract)
Towards partnership - teaching tomorrow's community works
- Authors:
- SALISBURY Brian, POWELL Susan
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 2(3), March 1996, pp.28-30.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
The authors and instructors in the Community Support Workers Programme at Kwantlen University College in British Columbia, Canada, discuss the fundamental changes occurring in community care and explore the ramifications for colleges providing training for direct support staff. Argues that community support workers in Canada and the UK will be required increasingly to demonstrate personal attributes and professional skills in order to facilitate community participation and citizenship for people with learning difficulties. The authors share their experiences in introducing college programmes designed to address this changing role.
Successful community care requires well trained staff
- Author:
- MALIN Nigel
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 6(4), April 1993, pp.20-22.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Summarises the findings of a series of conferences organised by CCETSW Northern Region into the training needs arising out of the community care legislation for staff serving people with learning difficulties. Concludes that the new policy will only be successful if training needs are properly assessed and staff appropriately trained to meet them.