Learning Disability Today

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ISSN: 1752-007X

This monthly magazine highlights examples of best practice and what works in the learning disability field.

The content is informed by the Valuing People Now agenda and is an accessible digest of key policy developments. There is a focus on promoting inclusion, particularly through housing, employment, health and leisure.

It is a must read for all those involved in extending choice and control for people with learning disabilities including:

  • service managers
  • social care workers
  • support staff, day services staff
  • housing workers
  • community health workers
  • partnership board members
  • students and people continuing their professional development
  • lecturers and training providers
  • carers and/or natural supports
In the latest Issue:
 

In the April 2010 issue of Learning Disability Today magazine:

Focus on 'challenging' behaviour

  • Cover story - Phoebe Caldwell on the use of 'Intensive Interaction Plus'
  • Staying well at work - John Beckett on coping with the stress of the job
  • Comment - We must hang on to Valuing People gains
  • News update - Support for the Growing Friendships campaign
  • News focus - Robert Mair on the Employment Support Allowance
  • Take 4 - Four people with learning disabilities are asked: how many 'real' friends do you have?
  • Watching brief - Peter Murphy on the transfer of cash from the NHS In person - Scott Watkin on his eye op
  • Prisoners without trial - Sally Gillen on the 'offenders' never brought to book
  • Avoiding family fall-outs - Families can be a valuable ally, says Steve Scown
  • A voluntary effort - Volunteering is on the rise
  • The project - A relationships group helps people relate
  • Research unpacked - A new study places people with learning disabilities at its heart
  • Letters - Partnerships boards are not strategic enough
  • Reviews - Death and poetry
  • The last word - Don't shy away from discussing fetishes, says Simon Stevens

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