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The purpose of this paper is to outline the role played by different aspects of the social, physical and organisational environments in preventing behaviour described as challenging in people with learning disabilities.

Conceptual elaboration drawing on research and practice literature.

Community placements for people with learning disabilities should develop the characteristics of capable environments. Such characteristics are associated with prevention of challenging behaviour and improved quality of life outcomes.

The notion of the capable environment may help to shift the focus from the individual who displays behaviour described as challenging to the characteristics of the social, physical and organisational supports that they receive.

With rather less than a year and a half gone by since the provisions of the Food Hygiene Regulations came into force, it is perhaps not too soon to sit back and look around at the progress that has been made. Few without bias would doubt that there have been substantial steps forward; their effects can be readily seen in our shopping centres and in the now prevailing more acute sense in matters of food hygiene, displayed both by shopkeepers and their assistants and by the general purchasing public. The latter, indeed, are playing an increasingly important part in furthering the interests and lightening the burden of those whose duty it is to administer the Regulations.