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Health and safety in a learning disability service
- Authors:
- JOHNSON David, HARDIE Elaine
- Publisher:
- Heinemann
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 93p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Includes chapters on: health and safety responsibilities in a learning disability service; safe moving and positioning; responding to accidents and sudden illness; medication and health-care tasks; reducing the spread of infection; promoting fire safety; security in the workplace.
The international handbook of applied research in intellectual disabilities
- Editors:
- EMERSON Eric, et al, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- John Wiley and Sons
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 639p.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
The handbook presents, explains, and illustrates key methods of research and evaluation of proven relevance and value to the field of intellectual disabilities. It features sections on the concepts and theoretical models underlying research and evaluation, the methods and techniques themselves, and the key application areas where the methods are demonstrated in action. Coverage includes applications in educational, social, family, health, and employment aspects of care and provision for those with intellectual disabilities.
Does having been on a 'section' reduce your chances of getting a job?
- Authors:
- FENTON John, O'HANLON Dee, ALLEN Danny
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 27(5), May 2003, pp.177-178.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
This article aims to ascertain employers' attitudes to interviewing and hiring job applicants with a history of mental illness and, in particular, to assess the potential effect on job prospects for applicants with a history of admission under the Mental Health Act 1983. A postal tick-box questionnaire was sent to 174 companies; there was a 32% response rate. The main factors influencing employers' hiring decisions were medical opinion regarding an applicant's fitness to work and their employment and sickness records. In about three-quarters of small companies and half of large companies, questions about mental illness are simply never asked. Approved social workers have no reason to caution people assessed under the Mental Health Act 1983 that being detained could harm their job prospects.
Roadmap 2025: achieving disability equality by 2025
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Office for Disability Issues
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Office for Disability Issues
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 62p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This roadmap from the Office for Disability Issues (ODI) shows how the United Kingdom government is working towards disability equality by 2025. It lists policies, some applicable across the UK, with the ODI and UK government departments working closely with the devolved administrations in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. Some policies are specific to England. Fourteen themes of children’s outcomes, communications, discrimination, employment, health, housing, independent living, justice system, living standards, participation, social care, transport, leisure, social and cultural activities, and post-19 education and training participation which encompass the UK vision of disability equality since 2005’s ‘Improving the Life Chance of Disabled People’, are charted along with strategic steps planned. The bulk of text, in 14 sections, provides detail on the themes, with bullet point references to the achievements of 2005-2009 and what is planned next. The ODI advise government departments’ looking to maximise input into successful outcomes for disabled people to share priorities with other departments and contribute to the bigger picture This roadmap also encourages service users into policy making resulting in better service delivery and it identifies which departments lead each theme and shared priorities, promoting the alignment of business plans of those working outside the government with government departments.
Social care and black communities: a review of recent research studies
- Authors:
- BUTT Jabeer, MIRZA Kurshida
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 162p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Provides a critical review of research looking at the prevalence, incidence and characteristics of the social care and related health needs of black and minority ethnic communities. Summarises information on the take-up, and access to social services of ethnic minorities. Material covered includes academic and published research; local authority studies; and voluntary and community group studies.