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Schöpfer:: The King's Fund
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: This discussion paper has been developed following a seminar held at the King's Fund in October 1997 when leaders in the field of symbol development and use came together to consider progress in this debate and what the next steps might be. The first section presents an overview of the ...

Schöpfer:: King's Fund
Publication date:: 1999
Abstract:: This book is an easy to use handbook and CD to help men and women with learning difficulties have better day opportunities. It is about working with services, families and other supporters to help people to get paid jobs, do courses at college and get certificates, make more friends, have ...

Schöpfer:: Development Centre (King's Fund)
Publication date:: 1997
Abstract:: The aim of this book is to help more people with learning difficulties get involved in evaluating their own services. It has been written for people with learning difficulties and for supporters and staff who work closely with them, and is based on a meeting held at the King's Fund ...

Schöpfer:: Towell, David, Management College (King's Fund), and International Association for Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability
Publication date:: 1996

Schöpfer:: Prince of Wales' Advisory Group on Disability, Fletcher, Sheila, and Living Options Partnership (Development Centre, King's Fund)
Publication date:: 1995
Abstract:: When disabled people take the lead in evaluating community care, they produce valuable insights into service effectiveness and creative suggestions for improving services. Real changes result when community care agencies listen to and act on disabled people's assessment of services on offer. This publication discusses the benefits and practicalities of ...

Schöpfer:: Begum, Nasa, Living Options Partnership (Development Centre, King's Fund), and Prince of Wales' Advisory Group on Disability
Publication date:: 1995
Abstract:: Over the past few years the low take-up of services by black disabled people and their general absence from user involvement initiatives have become a source of concern. Evidence suggests that poor access to information, communication barriers and inappropriate services are all factors preventing black disabled people from having their ...

Schöpfer:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Poonia, Kamaljit, Ward, Linda, Commission for Racial Equality, Baxter, Carol, and Nadirshaw, Zenobia
Publication date:: 1990
Abstract:: This handbook is a response to the concern about the lack of information on good services for people with learning difficulties from black and ethnic minority communities. Previous discussions and actions in this field have tended to be disjointed and ad hoc. This handbook brings together the limited amount of ...

Schöpfer:: Wertheimer, Alison. and Community Living Development Team (King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1989
Abstract:: This the report of a one-day seminar, held on 28 November 1988 for those who use services for people with learning difficulties, physical disabilities, or long-term health problems. The aim was to explore ways in which services could make links with each other, perhaps crossing the traditional boundaries between different ...

Schöpfer:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1985
Abstract:: One of the aims of the conference was to discuss the issues raised in the King's Fund Project Paper no. 51 ` Advocacy : the UK and American experiences'. This paper is an account of the conference and includes a list of the participants (including contributors to the project paper), ...

Schöpfer:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1982
Abstract:: The authors of this paper came together to study the development of comprehensive local residential services for mentally handicapped people. Although government policy had urged a move towards community-based services for mentally handicapped people, the numbers admitted to mental handicap hospitals for long-term care went up during the 1960s and ...

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