Planning For Life: Involving Adults with Learning Disabilities in Service Planning

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Preface......Page 12
Introduction......Page 13
NOTES......Page 16
1 The historical and social context of care to people with learning disabilities......Page 17
EARLY CLASSIFICATION......Page 22
THE RISE OF EUGENICS......Page 23
Impact of eugenics: the segregation of ‘the idiot’......Page 24
THE ROYAL COMMISSION OF 1904–8: PATERNALISM AND CONTROL......Page 27
THE MENTAL DEFICIENCY ACT 1913......Page 28
THE CASE FOR AND AGAINST THE ‘INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT’......Page 29
THE MENTAL DEFICIENCY ACT 1927 AND THE WOOD COMMITTEE REPORT 1929......Page 30
The early eugenics movement and the United States of America......Page 31
Eugenics and the Nazis’ policy towards subnormals 1933–45......Page 33
The new eugenics......Page 35
THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE AND THE PROBLEM OF COSTS......Page 41
The National Health Service Act 1946......Page 42
THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES 1951......Page 43
THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON MENTAL ILLNESS & MENTAL DEFICIENCY 1954–7......Page 44
THE MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1959......Page 46
THE POLITICAL & ECONOMIC PLANNING (PEP) REPORT 1966......Page 47
(2) Special care units designed to meet training and educational needs......Page 49
(3) The involvement of welfare officers......Page 50
THE SEEBOHM REPORT 1968......Page 51
PAULINE MORRIS’S PUT AWAY (1969)106......Page 52
Townsend on Put Away......Page 53
THE WHITE PAPER BETTER SERVICES FOR THE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED (1971)......Page 54
THE PAYNE REPORT 1972......Page 55
SOCIAL SECURITY FUNDING AND THE ‘PERVERSE INCENTIVE’......Page 56
 THE INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF RESIDENTIAL CARE 1985......Page 57
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS SELECT COMMITTEE REPORT: SOCIAL SERVICES COMMITTEE 1985126......Page 58
THE AUDIT COMMISSION REPORT: MAKING A REALITY OF COMMUNITY CARE 1986......Page 59
The White Paper Caring for People: Community Care in the Next Decade and Beyond (1989)......Page 60
SUMMARY......Page 62
NOTES......Page 63
 RIGHTS, CITIZENSHIP AND SOCIAL POLICY......Page 70
A QUESTION OF CHOICE AND FREE WILL......Page 71
INCOMPETENCE......Page 75
SUBSTITUTE DECISION-MAKING......Page 76
FROM PATERNALISM TO PROTECTION......Page 77
CONSENT, CAPACITY AND THE LAW......Page 78
COMMUNITY AND EMPOWERMENT......Page 79
ADVOCACY AND EMPOWERMENT......Page 81
NORMALISATION......Page 88
NOTES......Page 98
INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION: SYMBOLIC, NON-VERBAL AND VERBAL......Page 101
Symbolic communication......Page 106
Non-verbal communication......Page 107
Verbal communication......Page 110
COMMUNICATION AND EQUIPMENT......Page 114
GOVERNMENT POLICY AND COMMUNICATION: THE EVIDENCE REVEALED......Page 116
COMMUNICATION AND THE PROBLEMS OF RESEARCHING THE VIEWS OF PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES......Page 117
NOTES......Page 118
TOWARDS A NEW CULTURE OF SOCIAL CARE......Page 120
MODERNISING SOCIAL SERVICES THROUGH BEST VALUE......Page 122
Service planning and service reviews......Page 123
Improving performance......Page 124
CONSULTATION AND BEST VALUE......Page 125
A commitment to change......Page 126
Best value and cultural diversity......Page 127
NOTES......Page 128
 THE AUTHORITY’S APPROACH TO BEST VALUE......Page 130
Service brokerage......Page 133
Direct payments......Page 136
Safeguarding the brokerage system......Page 139
THE COUNCIL’S COMMITMENT TO PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES 1999–2002......Page 140
PARTNERSHIP WORKING......Page 149
Partnership working revisited......Page 151
Community learning difficulties teams......Page 153
Strategic planning and commissioning......Page 154
NOTES......Page 155
OBSERVATIONAL METHODS......Page 158
Recording observation sessions......Page 161
The first visit......Page 162
The second visit......Page 164
Making a difference to the lives of service users......Page 166
The first visit......Page 167
Group 2......Page 169
Group 3......Page 170
The second visit......Page 171
SOCIAL SERVICES COMMITTEE......Page 174
NOTES......Page 176
THE STUDY AND ITS LIMITATIONS......Page 178
PEOPLE INVOLVED IN PARTICIPATION AND PLANNING......Page 179
THE PLANNING AND INVOLVEMENT PROCESS......Page 183
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH......Page 184
NOTES......Page 187
INTRODUCTION......Page 188
Interviews......Page 189
Informed consent and confidentiality......Page 191
Interviewing the service users......Page 192
Interviewing the professionals......Page 193
Interviewing the parents......Page 194
RESEARCH ETHICS......Page 196
NOTES......Page 197
INTRODUCTION......Page 199
(1) Professionals......Page 200
(2) Parents and carers......Page 201
Difficulties encountered during the interviews with service users......Page 202
Books, articles and manuscripts......Page 204
Public documents, reports and publications......Page 213
Internet references......Page 214
List of tables......Page 215
List of figures......Page 216
Index......Page 217