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Finding a future
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.11.94, 1994, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Earlier this year People First inspected the closure and resettlement programmes in the London boroughs of Sutton and Haringey for people with learning difficulties. Looks at the choices they are given as they are moved out into the community.
Quality counts
- Author:
- MILLNER Lesley
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.2.92, 1992, pp.14-16.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Identifies way in which people with learning difficulties can participate in planning and managing their own services.
Supporting 'needs-led' services : implications for planning and management systems (a case study in mental handicap services)
- Authors:
- MCGRATH Morag, GRANT Gordon
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 21(1), 1992, pp.71-97.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
Identifies two elements of needs-led services : user participation and management delegation; uses a case study from the All Wales Strategy for services to mentally handicapped people to illustrate and discuss three models of planning and management and the implications for implementing community care.
Ghosts in the care home: the nature of relationships in a home for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- WAGGETT Nick
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work Practice, 26(4), December 2012, pp.443-457.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Drawing on consultancy undertaken in a care home with a history of disputes, grievances and staff sickness, this paper considers the complex task of working with adults with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour in a care home and the impact on relationships within the staff group. The article describes the consultancy project, undertaken at a care home for 11 adults with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour, which involved consultation with the manager and team leaders. It reports on the consultation process, with quotations and examples. The metaphor of ghosts is used to explore aspects of the unconscious life of the organisation and the individuals within it and ways in which the staff were behaving and relating. The author concludes that an increased understanding of organisational processes in the residential care sector may help staff form more helpful relationships with service users and hence lead to better outcomes.
Becoming a learning organization: a precondition for person centred services to people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- ILES Ian K.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities, 7(1), March 2003, pp.65-77.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Following the White Paper Valuing People, person centred planning is now firmly on the agenda of services to people with learning difficulties in England. Person centred planning has its foundations in communities of practice that have innovated and developed person centred approaches to action planning for disabled people. This article suggests that services will need to undergo some radical re-visioning of their ways of working if they are to make a meaningful reality of person centred planning. It is further suggested that services need to become learning organizations, committed to values of inclusion and to living those values in their practice. Further, by promoting and celebrating innovation and creativity, by flattening hierarchical structures and promoting social entrepreneurship and cooperative working and inquiry, services can further develop person centredness in what they do and make a reality of the rhetoric in Valuing People.
Working together for change: a service manager's guide to involving staff and families in service improvement
- Authors:
- PORTERFIELD Jan, EVANS Gerry, BLUNDEN Roger
- Publisher:
- Mental Handicap in Wales- Applied Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1983
- Pagination:
- 51p., tables, bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Social inclusion and community care
- Author:
- TOWELL David
- Journal article citation:
- Managing Community Care, 2000, pp.5-7.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
The pursuit of concerted policies to build a more inclusive society or, more precisely, to tackle social exclusion, is arguably the 'big idea' of New Labour's first year in government. Asks what opportunities and challenges this over-arching policy agenda offers for improving what we call community care.