This paper describes innovatory schemes and progress in bringing children with learning difficulties out of hospital. At the conference, Barnardo's N.W. Division presented information about their professional fostering scheme, followed by Portsmouth and S.E. Hampshire Health Authority's provision of alternative accommodation in the community for mentally handicapped children. A dehospitalisation ...
The first workshop began with the showing of a video "Home from home" from the Bristol Arts Project, which provoked much discussion. Questions raised included `Why do we need reviews?'; `Who benefits?'; `Who does them?' and `When are they done?' The second workshop focussed on these questions in more detail ...
These three workshops held in the Autumn of 1979 aimed to bring together all those involved in teaching staff who work with mentally handicapped people in residential settings, whether in the health service, local authority services or in voluntary organisations. The main purpose was to enable these staff to share ...