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A foot in the door: the early years of supported living for people with learning difficulties in the UK
- Authors:
- SIMONS Ken, WARD Linda
- Publisher:
- National Development Team
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 158p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Reviews the experience of developing supported living in the UK, focusing in particular on the supported living programme set up by the National Development Team. Explores the principles of supported living, describes how these principles have been put into practice, outlines some of the barriers encountered during the development of supported living, and discusses the strategic implications of making supported living more widely available.
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.
Supported living through Supporting People: the experiences of people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- FYSON Rachel, TARLETON Beth, WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 10(3), December 2007, pp.35-40.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article reports the findings of research which examined the impact that the Supporting People programme has had on housing and support for adults with learning disabilities. The issue was explored from the perspectives of local Supporting People teams, commissioners and providers of specialist learning disability social care services, and people with learning disabilities themselves.
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.
Learning difficulties
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, October 2000, pp.44-46.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Research into the problems faced by people with learning difficulties who want to live in homes of their own should feed into the government's review set up to produce a learning difficulties strategy for England.