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  • Sexual health and rights of people with learning disabilities

    fpa (the Family Planning Association) has made the sexual rights and health of people with learning disabilities their campaign for this year's Sexual Health Week, which runs from 4-10 August. Campaign materials include these posters . There's a strong focus on the negative impact of people with...
    Posted to Adults' services (Forum) by Mithran on 07-25-2008

  • Forced marriage among people with learning disabilities

    I went to a meeting this week of Voice UK's all-party parliamentary group where I heard about the apparently growing problem of forced marriages among people with learning disabilities . Haji Saghir Alam , a member of the government's disability equality advisory body Equality 2025, said some...
    Posted to Adults' services (Forum) by Mithran on 07-11-2008

  • Registered Managers

    Hi, I have just joined carespace and was wondering if there were any other Registered Managers of residential establishments out there. There are lots of issues which we must all face whilst carrying out this role which could be discussed / debated. Safe guarding adults / mental capacity act / AQQA assessments...
    Posted to Adults' services (Forum) by donnyman on 06-26-2008

  • Re: Personalised budgets!!!!!

    I think that it's interesting that half the people I hear think that personalised budgets, direct payments, or equivalent, are about a drive to save money - and half the people I hear of think that it will cost too much... That suggests to me that the money thing is a distraction - an indication...
    Posted to Adults' services (Forum) by RobertW on 06-20-2008

  • Social exclusion - is your council making a priority of it?

    We've got an interview with Phil Hope the minister in charge of social exclusion which should be on the site tomorrow. In it he says half of councils - and their local strategic partnership colleagues - have made reducing social exclusion among adults an explicit priority locally. To drift into their...
    Posted to Adults' services (Forum) by Mithran on 06-11-2008

  • Re: Mencap reveals huge public (and political) ignorance of learning disability

    What this survey actually reveals is that people are unclear about the distinction between the terms "Learning Disability" and "Learning Difficulty" as used by Mencap. The survey does not tell us anything about people's knowledge of people who have a learning disability. This...
    Posted to Adults' services (Forum) by AJT on 04-25-2008

  • People with learning disabilities and crime

    We've just put a story up on this report from the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland on the pretty shocking story of a woman with learning disabilities whom agencies did not protect from a string of sexual assaults. None of the alleged assailants have been prosecuted and it seems she was deemed...
    Posted to Adults' services (Forum) by Mithran on 04-16-2008

  • Re: adults with learning disabilities and relationships

    You are right and in an ideal world it would be much better if people with learning disabilities could just go to normal clubs - I'm sure many do - but some may like to go to nights specially organised for them as it is probably less threatening.
    Posted to Adults' services (Forum) by Aimes on 03-06-2008

  • house sharing with people with learning difficulties

    Some councils are operating 'house buddie' schemes where in return for getting their rent paid people share with people with learning disabilities. Some social workers have told me that similar schemes used to exist in the 80s under a different name. Does anybody else remember such schemes?
    Posted to Adults' services (Forum) by Aimes on 02-06-2008

  • adults with learning disabilities and relationships

    I recently met some people with learning disabilites and, as with the rest of us, one of their main preoccupations and frustations was around how to start a relationship. As any fellow singleton will know this is highly difficult and even more so when you have learning disabilities and may have the difficulty...
    Posted to Adults' services (Forum) by Aimes on 02-04-2008
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