Tizard Learning Disability Review: Volume 13 Issue 3
Practice, management, research and innovation
Table of contents
Learning disability policy in the UK
Simon Whitehead, Lisa Curtice, Stephen Beyer, Roy McConkey, Siobhan BoguesThis article provides separate, but linked, overviews of learning disability policy in the four countries of the UK, commenting on current policy and its links to the wider policy…
Personal budgets in social care: the challenge of scaling up
Martin Routledge, Zoe PorterPersonal budgets are part of the Putting People First agenda in England and are at the heart of the biggest change in social care for decades. This article discusses the rationale…
Changes in demography and demand for services from people with complex needs and profound and multiple learning disabilities
Richard Parrott, Nigel Tilley, John WolstenholmeThis article describes the changes in the population of people with learning disabilities in Sheffield and the associated demand for specialist learning disability services…
Health checks and people with learning disabilities
Janet Cobb, Alison Giraud‐Saunders, Mike KerrThis article addresses the need for health checks for people with learning disabilities as a proven route to identifying and tackling health inequalities, what health checks…
Supported employment for people with learning disabilities: the case for full‐time work
George McInallyNorth Lanarkshire Council's supported employment service has achieved a reputation for delivering full‐time work for people who have learning disabilities. Since 1999, the service…
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- Dr Jill Bradshaw