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Unlocking the future : developing new lifestyles with people who have complex disabilities

Author:: King's Fund and National Development Team
Publication date:: 2000
Abstract:: 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 ...

Looking at our services : service evaluation by people with learning difficulties : a book for people with learning difficulties and their supporters who want to get involved in evaluating services

Author:: 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 ...

Improving services for deaf and partially deaf people

Author:: d'Aboville, Etienne, O'Halloran, Geraldine, Living Options Partnership (Development Centre, King's Fund), and Prince of Wales' Advisory Group on Disability
Publication date:: 1995
Abstract:: 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 ...

Improving services for blind and partially sighted people

Author:: Living Options Partnership (Development Centre, King's Fund) and Prince of Wales' Advisory Group on Disability
Publication date:: 1995
Abstract:: 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 ...

Seeking better futures in Havering : feasibility study on the future organization and management arrangements for services for people with learning difficulties in Havering

Author:: Diamont, Ian, King's Fund College (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Carle, Nan, Damon, Sheila, Peters, Gordon, Powell, David, and Rucker, Lyn
Publication date:: 1993

Hillingdon Health Agency : review of learning difficulties and mental health services

Author:: Rucker, Lyn, King's Fund College (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), and Brazil, Ritchard
Publication date:: 1993
Abstract:: 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.

Economic aspects of care for individuals with learning disabilities

Author:: King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Taylor, Jean, and Taylor, David
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: 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 ...

Home-bound : crisis in the care of young people with severe learning difficulties : a story of twenty families

Author:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Hubert, Jane
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: 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 ...

Achieving strategic change in opportunities and services for people with learning difficulties : a principled agenda for the 1990s

Author:: King's Fund College (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Towell, David
Publication date:: 1990
Abstract:: 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 ...

An ordinary life in practice : developing comprehensive community-based services for people with learning difficulties

Author:: Brazil, Richard, Carle, Nan, and King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
Publication date:: 1988
Abstract:: 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 ...

An ordinary working life : vocational services for people with mental handicap

Author:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1984
Abstract:: 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 ...

Mentally handicapped people with special needs

Author:: Firth, Hugh, King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), and Firth, Melinda
Publication date:: 1982
Abstract:: 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 ...

Services for mentally handicapped children : a statement by a group of parents and professionals meeting under the auspices of the King's Fund Centre, London, Association of Professions for the Mentally Handicapped, Institute of Mental Subnormality

Author:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1976
Abstract:: 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.

I thought that they were supposed to be doing that : a comparative study of co-ordination of services for the mentally handicapped in seven local authorities June 1969 to September 1972

Author:: Hospital Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Revans, Reginald W., and Baquer, Ali
Publication date:: 1972
Abstract:: 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 ...

Project on co-ordination of services for mentally handicapped : the use of critical incidents and the gaps they cause as a teaching and training device

Author:: Baquer, Ali and Hospital Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1972
Abstract:: 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 ...

Strategies for profound mental handicap : report on a King's Fund Seminar, February 1972

Author:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1972
Abstract:: 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.

Project on co-ordination of services for the mentally handicapped : analysed data

Author:: Hospital Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1972
Abstract:: 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 ...

Project on co-ordination of services for the mentally handicapped (June 1969 to September 1972) : analysed data

Author:: Hospital Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1972
Abstract:: 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 ...

Project on co-ordination of services for the mentally handicapped (June 1969 to September 1972) : analysed data

Author:: Hospital Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1972
Abstract:: 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 ...

Project on co-ordination of services for the mentally handicapped (June 1969 to September 1972) : analysed data

Author:: Hospital Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1972
Abstract:: 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 ...

Project on co-ordination of services for the mentally handicapped (June 1969 to September 1972) : analysed data

Author:: Hospital Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1972
Abstract:: 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 ...

Project on co-ordination of the services for the mentally handicapped : progress report July 1971

Author:: Hospital Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), Revans, R. W., and Baquer, Ali
Publication date:: 1971
Abstract:: 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 ...

Learning to live : the mentally handicapped and their needs : a King's Fund Hospital Centre exhibition handbook

Author:: Hospital Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1971
Abstract:: 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 ...

Unlocking the future : developing new lifestyles with people who have complex disabilities

Looking at our services : service evaluation by people with learning difficulties : a book for people with learning difficulties and their supporters who want to get involved in evaluating services

Improving services for deaf and partially deaf people

Improving services for blind and partially sighted people

Seeking better futures in Havering : feasibility study on the future organization and management arrangements for services for people with learning difficulties in Havering

Hillingdon Health Agency : review of learning difficulties and mental health services

Economic aspects of care for individuals with learning disabilities

Home-bound : crisis in the care of young people with severe learning difficulties : a story of twenty families

Achieving strategic change in opportunities and services for people with learning difficulties : a principled agenda for the 1990s

An ordinary life in practice : developing comprehensive community-based services for people with learning difficulties

An ordinary working life : vocational services for people with mental handicap

Mentally handicapped people with special needs

Services for mentally handicapped children : a statement by a group of parents and professionals meeting under the auspices of the King's Fund Centre, London, Association of Professions for the Mentally Handicapped, Institute of Mental Subnormality

I thought that they were supposed to be doing that : a comparative study of co-ordination of services for the mentally handicapped in seven local authorities June 1969 to September 1972

Project on co-ordination of services for mentally handicapped : the use of critical incidents and the gaps they cause as a teaching and training device

Strategies for profound mental handicap : report on a King's Fund Seminar, February 1972

Project on co-ordination of services for the mentally handicapped : analysed data

Project on co-ordination of services for the mentally handicapped (June 1969 to September 1972) : analysed data

Project on co-ordination of services for the mentally handicapped (June 1969 to September 1972) : analysed data

Project on co-ordination of services for the mentally handicapped (June 1969 to September 1972) : analysed data

Project on co-ordination of services for the mentally handicapped (June 1969 to September 1972) : analysed data

Project on co-ordination of the services for the mentally handicapped : progress report July 1971

Learning to live : the mentally handicapped and their needs : a King's Fund Hospital Centre exhibition handbook

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