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Schöpfer:: Gardner, Simon, Whittaker, Andrea, Kershaw, Joyce, and King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: This evaluation looked at one corner of one authority's services for people with learning difficulties. North West Thames Regional Health Authority funded People First to do this evaluation in order to ask people's views about what services they were getting, what they wanted, and what was important to them. It ...

Schöpfer:: 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 ...

Schöpfer:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: The two conferences described in this report aimed to go beyond the 'getting to know about self-advocacy' stage and aimed to look at groups already in operation, to see how they are progressing. The support required to help groups run well was also looked at. The broad questions discussed at ...

Schöpfer:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: This document is the latest in the `An Ordinary Life' series and follows on from `Facing the Challenge' and `Evaluating the Challenges', giving practical examples of services around the country for people with challenging behaviour. As well as describing the services it looks at key issues of : management and ...

Schöpfer:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: The main aims of the conferences described in this book were to enable participants to learn about supported employment initiatives for people with severe learning difficulties and to exchange information with one another. There were opportunities to meet new people with similar concerns and to develop networks for continuing contact. ...

Schöpfer:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1991
Abstract:: Government policy increasingly emphasises the importance of community care services for people with learning difficulties and other long term disabilities, although when people have substantial disabilities, it is often a major challenge to design and run such services. Service evaluation can help to meet this challenge by asking key questions. ...

Schöpfer:: Poonia, Kamaljit, Nadirshaw, Zenobia, Baxter, Carol, Ward, Linda, King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), and Commission for Racial Equality
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 King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1989
Abstract:: This publication, building on the Ordinary Life initiative, describes a project undertaken with 2 community services - one for adults and one for children. A P.A.S.S. evaluation of each service yielded detailed information on what life was really like for service users and pinpointed priority areas for further training and ...

Schöpfer:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1989
Abstract:: The workshop was part of the 'Ordinary Life' initiative, which had so far overlooked those people with learning difficulties who are held in secure units. The contributions in this report are picked up four themes - values underlying the 'Ordinary Life' initiative; the concept of security; the concept of dangerousness; ...

Schöpfer:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1988
Abstract:: This book is about helping people with learning difficulties to develop their ties and connections with others and the community. It explores the many different ways in which people meet and develop relationships with others. It makes practical suggestions for people with learning difficulties themselves, families, service workers and other ...

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