People with learning difficulties and very high support needs are at the forefront of service providers and commissioners' thinking. However, there are presently few solutions to providing them with opportunities. "Unlocking the future" explores ways in which services need to change to provide this group of people with lifestyles based ...
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 ...
This document builds on work carried out by a group of deaf and partially deaf people who were invited to share views and experiences of community care services. It discusses communication, interpreting services, individual needs, social services and health issues relevant to deaf people. Service provision to deaf people from ...
This document builds on work carried out by a group of blind and partially sighted people who were invited to identify the issues which they considered to be most important in shaping their experiences of community care. These issues include access to information, assessment for entitlement to services, inflexibility and ...
This document is the review of services to adults with mental ill health and people with learning difficulties commissioned from the King's Fund College by Hillingdon Health Agency.
Against the background of profound change now affecting the British health and social care system this report examines economic aspects of the support of people (particularly adults) with severe learning difficulties in England, and their implications for future service development. It briefly outlines ideas and data relevant to: the evolution ...
This book describes the experiences of twenty families who have, living at home, a teenager or young adult with severe learning difficulties who has been classified by professionals as 'severely' or 'profoundly' mentally handicapped, and who also has 'serious behavioural problems'. It documents the lives of these families, and the ...
This paper marks ten years since the launch of the King's Fund 'An Ordinary Life' initiative and was delivered to the 'Better Lives' seminar sponsored by Community Care and the Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust, 27 April 1990. While acknowledging the changes that have taken place in services for people with ...
The philosophy of 'an ordinary life' has been the basis of a wide range of local initiatives, and increasingly influences large-scale changes in community care. This book includes contributions from seventeen people who as users, innovators and evaluators have been involved centrally in these developments. They review current practice in ...
This project paper is the product of a working party convened by the King's Fund Centre to examine the provision of day services for people with mental handicaps. The importance of work in society and for people with mental handicaps is discussed and principles of service design described. Problems with ...
This discussion paper is about the provision of services for people with learning difficulties who may also be: blind or partially sighted; deaf or have partial hearing; physically disabled, epileptic, autistic, elderly, profoundly disabled or may show very disturbed behaviour at times. The paper deals with the philosophy or fundamental ...
This is the record of a workshop on services for mentally handicapped children, organised jointly, in March 1976, by King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, Association of Professions for the Mentally Handicapped and Institute of Mental Subnormality.
This book is about two themes. The first is the improvement of the co-ordination of services to people with learning difficulties. The second is a description of how the first theme was pursued, by methods of study and discussion characterised, as far as possible, by the direct, active and personal ...
This project was undertaken to collect information on the services offered to people with learning difficulties. During the course of the project the idea of collecting `critical incidents' was suggested by some of the participants to elicit gaps in coordination. (For the purpose of this project a critical incident is ...
This document are the notes of a seminar. A group of professionals involved in learning difficulties held a residential seminar with the intention of exploring problems relating to the care of people with severe learning difficulties.
This project was undertaken to collect information on the services offered to people with learning difficulties in seven diverse local authorities of the country and to involve providers of service in a systematic examination of it. A random sample of those people with learning difficulties in the community and under ...
This project was undertaken to collect information on the services offered to people with learning difficulties in seven diverse local authorities of the country and to involve providers of service in a systematic examination of it. A random sample of those people with learning difficulties in the community and under ...
This project was undertaken to collect information on the services offered to people with learning difficulties in seven diverse local authorities of the country and to involve providers of service in a systematic examination of it. A random sample of those people with learning difficulties in the community and under ...
This project was undertaken to collect information on the services offered to people with learning difficulties in seven diverse local authorities of the country and to involve providers of service in a systematic examination of it. A random sample of those people with learning difficulties in the community and under ...
This project was undertaken to collect information on the services offered to people with learning difficulties in seven diverse local authorities of the country and to involve providers of service in a systematic examination of it. A random sample of those people with learning difficulties in the community and under ...
This is an account of an attempt to improve co-ordination of services received by people with learning difficulties. With the guidance of a working party , the project has been designed and developed by members of a research advisory group. From the initial stages of the project this group shared ...
This booklet does not attempt to provide an exhaustive index of all the best ideas for providing better services for people with learning difficulties. The aim has been to provide a simple narrative describing some of the ideas and practices which have come to the notice of the Hospital Centre ...