Learning Disabilities

2009

February

Learning the way to journey’s end

2008

October

Connect in the North helps people with learning disabilities train personal assistants

How my learning disabilities team bought into the continuing healthcare framework

July

Personalisation: Halton Council balances independence and risk

Warrington Council’s market development improves personalisation agenda

Devon’s complex care teams move from crisis response to self-managed care

June

Personalisation: self-directed support in West Sussex

Personalisation: the rapid equipment service in Devon

April

Personalisation and individual budgets: Wigan social workers enthusiastic

February

No service user participation without proper evaluation

Research Abstracts: User Involvement

January

Supporting self-advocacy

Research Abstracts: Self Advocacy

People with learning disabilities live together

2007

November

Trainers for Change: People with learning disabilities train staff

Children with complex health and social care needs

Research abstracts: Children with complex needs

October

People with learning disabilities: doctors give their view of Death by Indifference

Learning disabilities: elderly people face loss of independence

September

Involvement of service users in social care research

User participation in developing services

Research abstracts: participating in service development

August

Information needs of young people with learning disabilities

July

Parents who have learning disabilities Learning Difficulties

May

Practice panel: Sexual urges clash with religious beliefs

March

People with learning difficulties put their experiences in DVD. Supported by United Response

Learning difficulties: people’s experience of bullying, hate crime and abuse

February

Mum and dad must let go

Orchard Hill special report

Partners for Inclusion profile. Disability award winners

Community Care Award carers winner: Nottingham’s Changing Places project

My Practice – Giles Gardner

January

Learning difficulties residential home scandals: the inside story and lessons from Longcare and Cornwall

Next Steps… winners of the Community Care Awards learning difficulties category 2006

2006

December

Charity Christmas cards: how charitable are they?

November

The Risk Factor: Sexually inappropriate behaviour and learning difficulties

October

A project for older carers in Southwark, south London

September

Centre for the Development of Social Care Practice leads the way in university and local authority partnerships

August

Helping team members overcome the stress of restructuring of adult services demands openness and support

Communication is vital to social care department’s culture

July

Cornwall Abuse – special report

Learning difficulties parents: A Gloucestershire project shows way forward

Giles Gardner explains how social work placements for police officer trainees are helping challenge prejudices within the force

June

A man with Down’s syndrome and speech difficulties rows with his mother who is struggling to care for him

Finding Keepers

My practice – Nichola Glover-Edge

May

Past Masters

April

Battling the resistance

A night to remember

March

Ambassador for Achievement

February

Suffering in silence

January

Therapy brings self-control

2005

December

Burden weighs heavily

My practice – Nichola Edge

November

Too little too late

Speak for yourself

October

My practice – Sarah Baalham

September

This baby is for keeps

August

My practice – Sarah Baalham

July

Survival skills first

A force for change

My practice – Nichola Edge

June

A question of consent

Dream ticket

My practice – Joanna Perry

May

Thinking outside the triangle

April

My practice – Nichola Edge

March

In the shadow of abuse

The best of a bad situation

February

The healing starts hear (Community Care 2004 award winner – Learning Difficulties category)

Breath of fresh ayr

January

It’s ok to say ‘I can’t cope’

My Practice – Nichola Edge