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A user controlled best value review of direct payments
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
All best value reviews include a requirement to consult with service users. This review demonstrated how service users can play more central role in designing and undertaking much of the review themselves. A project group of disabled people was established to review direct payments in one local authority using statutory best value framework.
Evaluation of the national user involvement project
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The National User Involvement Project was a four-site development project carried out by the national user consultants working in co-operation with joint commissioners, local organisations of disabled people and users of community services. It aimed to extend to range of service users involved in commissioning decisions to include members of ethnic minorities, older service users and people receiving services following hospital discharge. People with learning difficulties and mental health service users were included in the project. Outlines the findings.
Access to assessment: the perspectives of practitioners, disabled people and carers
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Recent community care legislation means that disabled people must undergo an eligibility test in order to access an assessment of their needs. A study exploring access to the assessment procedures used by two local authority social services departments. The study - based on observations of social workers' assessment practice and interviews with disabled people and carers.
Issues raised by users on the future of welfare, rights and support
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The Shaping Our Lives project, working in partnership with the Shropshire Disability Consortium and with a coalition of user organisations in Sheffield, looked at the issues that had emerged from discussions with users about the future of rights and welfare, and the ways that users were being involved in shaping the support they received. The project worked at a national and a local level, with Shaping Our Lives carrying out country-wide work through booklets and a questionnaire on key issues, which produced a qualitative sample of 26.
Social service users' own definitions of quality outcomes
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The Shaping Our Lives project, working in partnership with Black User Group (London), Service User Action Group (Wakefield), Ethnic Disabled Group Emerged (Manchester) and an alliance of user groups in Waltham Forest (London), looked at the application in practice of on-going work about what service users meant by 'user-defined outcomes'. Both the research and the development projects covered a range of experiences - including those of older people, mental health users, minority ethnic communities and disabled people and involving 66 users in all.
Disabled people in refugee and asylum-seeking communities in Britain
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The presence of disabled people in refugee and asylum-seeking communities in Britain is frequently overlooked and information about their particular experiences is rarely available. Research generated data on the numbers and social characteristics of disabled refugees and asylum seekers living in Britain, reviewed their entitlements to social and welfare services and provided an insight into the experiences of disabled refugees and asylum seekers and service providers.
Involving black disabled people in shaping services
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The involvement of users has been actively promoted within social care as a way of developing more appropriate and responsive services, bringing benefits to both service users and providers. There has, however, been a noticeable lack of involvement by black disabled people. Research undertaken by Rachel Evans and Martin Banton of the Council of Disabled People Warwickshire with support from Coventry University's Centre for Social Justice explored one organisation's experiences in developing the involvement of black disabled people. Presents the findings of the research.
The views of young black disabled people on independent living
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 4pp.
- Place of publication:
- York
Independent is generally seen as a positive step for young people, leading to them becoming self-reliant and less dependent on others. Yet this may not be the same for young disabled people. This study is based on interviews with 44 young disabled people of Asian, African and Caribbean origin. It looks at their experience of independence and the influences on them leading active independent lives.
Low intensity support services: a systematic literature review
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Despite some recent policy acknowledgement of the potential role of low intensity support services in assisting people to live independently, community care resources continue to be targeted mainly on high level, often crisis, interventions. Partly because of this continuing focus, there has been little consideration of the evidence of the value of low intensity services. The Centre for Housing Policy, University of York, has now undertaken a systematic research literature review of the effectiveness of such services in enabling people to live independently in ordinary housing. Presents the findings.
Developing new lifestyles with disabled people
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
There is growing consensus that daytime opportunities for people with learning difficulties and disabled people need to be improved. People want to work, learn and enjoy a greater variety of leisure interests, spending more time in ordinary community settings with old and new friends. Supporting people to achieve this - in essence, a more ordinary lifestyle - is the challenge for service providers. This project implemented recommendations from the national Changing Days Project about how to improve people's lifestyles. Focusing on people with learning difficulties and disabled people living in four residential homes run by the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust.