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Keep it reel
- Author:
- KORONKA Adam
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 29.06.06, 2006, p.37.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
This author, day services manager at Yarrow Housing in Shepards Bush, talks about making a film with people with learning disabilities. The film, 'Coping Strategies' is a surreal comedy about three flatmates with learning disabilities.
Finding keepers
- Author:
- HOPKINS Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.06.06, 2006, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
This article reports on a joint venture between a day service and an environmental agency in west London which is employing people with learning difficulties as volunteer canal keepers.
The Friendly Trust: changes lives for the better
- Author:
- DERRINGTON Siobhan
- Journal article citation:
- Llais, 82, Winter 2006, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Learning Disability Wales
This article describes the work of The Friendly Trust, a Cardiff based charity that has provided financial advice and support to people with learning disabilities since 1998. The article contains a profile of one of their service users, and how the Trust had been able to help him.
The views of children and young people with learning disabilities about the support they receive from social services: a review of consultations and methods
- Authors:
- KNIGHT Abigail, et al
- Publisher:
- University of London. Institute of Education. Thomas Coram Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 24p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report is intended to act as a resource for local authorities and others, to assist them in consulting young people with learning disabilities about the services they receive.
Learning from the experts: people with learning difficulties training and learning from each other
- Authors:
- WEEKS Louise, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 34(1), March 2006, pp.49-55.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article discusses a training project run by Central England People First (CEPF) to help other people with learning difficulties to learn how to be trainers. The National User Training Development Project, was funded by the Department of Health. The training team designed a 2-day programme, and asked people in different parts of the country to try it out. Eight organizations agreed, including a care village, another People First group and two social services departments. Eighty people with learning difficulties and support people took part. The project team told them about what training is for, and how to organize it. They also had the chance to try out their own ideas. They practiced 'role plays', 'speaking up', doing quizzes and using video recorders. At the end, the people who took part filled in evaluation sheets, so that the team could find out if the training was useful. Most people said that they had enjoyed it, and that they had learned something. The article concludes that: people with learning difficulties can be good trainers, because they are experts about services and the things that are important in their lives; and that using training can be a good way of helping people with learning difficulties to speak out about how they want to be treated.
We have a lot to say
- Author:
- JACKSON Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, June 2006, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The author looks at the work of the Southampton City Service Users Working Group. The group is for people with learning disabilities who also have mental health problems. The group was winner of the NIMHE Positive Practice Award for learning disabilities and mental health.
The public sector and equality for disabled people
- Authors:
- ROBERTS Simon, et al
- Publisher:
- Corporate Document Services; Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 129p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
This research was commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions to find out how public bodies are approaching the implementation of the Disability Equality Duty (part of the Disability Discrimination Act 2005). Public authorities such as Government Departments or Primary Care Trusts will be under a positive duty to promote equality of opportunity for disabled people, including employees, service users and others, from December 2006.
A relationship support service for people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- JENNER Phillip, GALE Tim M.
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 11(2), April 2006, pp.18-25.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article describes the background to, and process of, setting up a Relationship Support Service for individuals with learning disabilities. The service was funded as a pilot project in Hertfordshire in response to the unmet needs of service users with learning disabilities and their carers. Superficially, the service functions like a conventional dating service. However, unlike a conventional dating agency, this is a learning disability service, providing opportunities for personal development. A crucial aspect of the service is that it provides continued support in maintaining friendships and relationships over time. The article outlines the rationale behind the service, the obstacles that have been overcome, the application procedures and the safeguards that are in place, and reports some preliminary data on service uptake. The pilot study emphasises both the feasibility and potential benefits of setting up this much needed service.
Gender identity, cross dressing and gender reassignment and people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- WILSON Daniel
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 11(2), April 2006, pp.4-11.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article addresses the question of gender and identity in relation to a number of considerations for supporting men with learning disabilities who cross-dress, or want gender reassignment. Drawing on practice experiences, the article identifies a number of issues which will need to be considered when working on these topics, and presents a model for taking forward work with staff and service users.
In control
- Author:
- DUFFY Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Llais, 80, Summer 2006, pp.9-13.
- Publisher:
- Learning Disability Wales
In Control has been working to change the current system for social care into a system of self-directed support. This has led to great interest in its idea of Individual Budgets and how they can be used to help all disabled people to get control of their own support and achieve better lives for themselves. This article explains the concept of self-directed support and looks at In Control's model.