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 Feb/March 2010 issue of Learning Disability Today magazine:

SPECIAL ISSUE ON RELATIONSHIPS

  • Comment - nurturing friendships helps tackle isolation
  • We launch our Growing Friendships campaign
  • Robert Mair on the new vetting and barring scheme
  • Four people with learning disabilities have their say on friendship and dating agencies
  • Anthea Cox on getting politicians to listen
  • Growing Friendships - Andrew Holman on why a campaign is needed to combat isolation
  • Research unpacked - family carers continue to thwart their relatives' sexual relationships
  • Is health the forgotten transition? Axel Kaehne and Clare O'Connell outline their research into health problems and learning disabilities
  • Services need to wake up to the rising number of BME young people approaching transition, says Lesley Dean
  • Ask an expert - When someone steals their housemate's food...
  • Home & away - Amy Taylor on planning a hitch free supported holiday
  • Reviews
  • The Equal Access Guide - Alison Giraud-Saunders on where the NHS is getting it right
  • Individual budgets -Sally Gillen looks at some imaginative ways of spending them
  • The project - Special Friends online
  •  The last word - What does being valued really mean asks Andy Bradley?

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