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Creatore:: Webb, Adrian and King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1982
Abstract:: In late 1981, the DHSS published a study entitled 'Community Care' which examined some important issues in the development of community-based forms of care. The purpose of the study day was to discuss the document and to consider the policy implications for some of the issues it raised. Three themes ...

Creatore:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Ward, Linda
Publication date:: 1982
Abstract:: This account of recent developments in community based services for mentally handicapped people in this country derives from a study of available literature, focussing particularly on that published between 1975-1981. The main part of the report describes the kind of schemes and projects that have been developed to meet the ...

Creatore:: Heron, Alastair and King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1982
Abstract:: The Sheffield Development Project arose from the thinking behind the 1971 White Paper "Better Services for the Mentally Handicapped", which was a government effort to provide clear leadership and a long-term strategy for the development of services for people with learning difficulties. The Sheffield Development Project has been a major ...

Creatore:: Firth, Melinda, King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London), and Firth, Hugh
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 ...

Creatore:: Blunden, Roger and King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1982
Abstract:: There has been a growing interest in recent years in the Portage model, a system which helps parents to identify skills their pre-school children with learning difficulties could usefully learn, clarify these skills and break them down into steps small enough to teach these skills to their child. The service ...

Creatore:: 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 ...

Creatore:: King's Fund Centre for Health Services Development (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Shearer, Ann
Publication date:: 1981
Abstract:: This study was commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Security and the King's Fund Centre to provide an independent account of alternatives to hospital care for children with learning difficulties who need long-term residential care. The report draws on examples from health and social services authorities and discusses ...

Creatore:: Oswin, Maureen and King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1981
Abstract:: This discussion paper reports a study of the ways in which short-term residential care services for mentally handicapped children are being developed by different agencies and in different parts of England. The idea behind such provision is to provide families with a break from a child who may be causing ...

Creatore:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Oswin, Maureen
Publication date:: 1981
Abstract:: This paper looks at how people with learning difficulties are considered when they experience the death of somebody who has been close to them. Because society continues to have stereotyped ideas about people with learning difficulties, when they grieve, they may not be shown the consideration due to them. This ...

Creatore:: King's Fund Centre (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London)
Publication date:: 1981
Abstract:: This leaflet has been produced by a group concerned that the needs a grief reactions of bereaved people with learning difficulties are likely to be overlooked. It is hoped that this leaflet will be helpful in promoting discussion.

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