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Dear colleague,
We are
pleased to announce that Tizard Learning Disability
Review has just published a themed issue: Valuing People Now:
Making progress – continuing challenges, guest edited by Anne
Williams.
The following article, ”A home of my own – progress on enabling people with learning
disabilities to have choice and control over where and with whom they live”, examines the progress made in supporting
people with learning disabilities to live in their own homes in the
community over the past 40 years. The recent NHS campus closure programme has
demonstrated once again that even people with complex support needs can have a
better quality of life with improved outcomes in appropriate community
accommodation.
This article examines the work undertaken following Valuing
People Now to develop the housing options of people with learning disabilities,
including implementing a regional housing programme, developing a good-practice
toolkit for local authority commissioners and encouraging provider engagement.
The barriers to progress are discussed, and areas are identified for future
development in order to meet people’s legitimate ambition to have a home
of their own.
This article is written by Karyn
Kirkpatrick, National Valuing People Housing Lead,
Department of Health, England.
We
are pleased to make this article available free of charge. To view the full
article, published in Tizard
Learning Disability Review, click here.
Publishing
5 issues in 2011 and to include a themed issue on autism, guest-edited by Julie
Beadle-Brown, Tizard Learning Disability
Review provides vital information and
intelligence for people working in learning/intellectual disability services,
including:
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evidence and ideas to
help plan, manage and deliver excellent services
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peer-reviewed articles
with accompanying commentaries on issues raised
·
detailed descriptions
of important and innovative service developments
·
accessible overviews
of research – drawing out practical implications for
learning/intellectual disability services.
The journal is published in
partnership with the Tizard Centre, University of Kent.
Articles recently published
include:
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Self-injury and other challenging behaviour
at intervention and ten years on: a case study
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Missing a beat: police
responses to people with learning disabilities and mental health problems
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Raising our sights:
services for adults with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities
·
Institutions remain
dumping grounds for forgotten people.
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online access to the 16 year archive. Ensure your colleagues/students have online
access to the journal and apply for a multi-user subscription. ISSN: 1359-5474 (Print) 2042-8782 (Online)
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