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Editorial Paul Cambridge The following two papers are about ways to TIZARD CENTRE open up services and practice to scrutiny. In the first of two research features, Selma Rikberg Smyly and colleagues outline the views of professional This is the last issue of Tizard’s Learning Disability colleagues, care staff, and families and carers on Review which I will edit. This issue will be followed by systemic consultation in a learning disability service. a special issue guest-edited by Rob Greig on current Lizzy Dixon then outlines the process developed management and planning challenges for learning and issues arising from implementing a social care disability services in the UK, with a linked conference governance pilot in a community learning disability focusing on Valuing People Now – Making it Happen, team in Northern Ireland, part of an initiative by presented jointly by the Tizard Centre and the the Social Care Institute of Excellence through the National Development Team, and organised by Northern Ireland Clinical and Social Care Pavilion. The publication of the next issue and the Governance Support Team (2007). conference will coincide, and the conference will be at In the second research feature, Raquel Morentin ORT on 7 October 2008. It will present an important and colleagues report on some fascinating research opportunity to keep abreast of policy developments in on how people with learning disabilities learning disability, and is a must for your diary – see conceptualise love and relationships, with lessons the advert in this issue (p14). Following this, Professor which have cross-national relevance. Finally, Paul Jim Mansell will once again take over as editor of the Keenan reviews a collection of books and reports on Review from the current editorial team – Michelle person-centred planning and people with learning McCarthy, Steven Carnaby and me. disabilities. It is critically important that service This issue of the Learning Disability Review managers and practitioners in learning disability contains a mix of papers reporting on strategic constantly review evidence on the ongoing initiatives and research, and spanning issues from e- development and performance of PCP, if it is to learning, positive behavioural support, functional retain its special characteristics rather than decay behaviour assessment, social care governance and into an arrangement defined by administrative systemic consultation processes to sexuality and expediency and resource constraints (Cambridge & love. David Allen and colleagues examine and report Carnaby, 2005). on the development and implementation of an e- learning training initiative in positive behavioural References support, mapping the process of implementation Cambridge P & Carnaby S (2005) Person Centred and discussing the problems and potentials of the Planning and Care Management for People with Learning Disabilities. London: Jessica Kingsley. model. Konstantinos Ntinas discusses and reviews Northern Ireland Clinical and Social Care Governance the issue of teachers’ resistance to the Support Team (2007) Social Care Governance: A practice implementation of functional behaviour assessment workbook. Health, Social Services and Public in schools, and offers helpful pointers for its Safety/SCIE. successful implementation. Learning Disability Review VOLUME 13 ISSUE 2 AUGUST 2008 © Pavilion Journals (Brighton) Limited http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Tizard Learning Disability Review Emerald Publishing

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Paul Cambridge The following two papers are about ways to TIZARD CENTRE open up services and practice to scrutiny. In the first of two research features, Selma Rikberg Smyly and colleagues outline the views of professional This is the last issue of Tizard’s Learning Disability colleagues, care staff, and families and carers on Review which I will edit. This issue will be followed by systemic consultation in a learning disability service. a special issue guest-edited by Rob Greig on current Lizzy Dixon then outlines the process developed management and planning challenges for learning and issues arising from implementing a social care disability services in the UK, with a linked conference governance pilot in a community learning disability focusing on Valuing People Now – Making it Happen, team in Northern Ireland, part of an initiative by presented jointly by the Tizard Centre and the the Social Care Institute of Excellence through the National Development Team, and organised by Northern Ireland Clinical and Social Care Pavilion. The publication of the next issue and the Governance Support Team (2007). conference will coincide, and the conference will be at In the second research feature, Raquel Morentin ORT on 7 October 2008. It will present an important and colleagues report on some fascinating research opportunity to keep abreast of policy developments in on how people with learning disabilities learning disability, and is a must for your diary – see conceptualise love and relationships, with lessons the advert in this issue (p14). Following this, Professor which have cross-national relevance. Finally, Paul Jim Mansell will once again take over as editor of the Keenan reviews a collection of books and reports on Review from the current editorial team – Michelle person-centred planning and people with learning McCarthy, Steven Carnaby and me. disabilities. It is critically important that service This issue of the Learning Disability Review managers and practitioners in learning disability contains a mix of papers reporting on strategic constantly review evidence on the ongoing initiatives and research, and spanning issues from e- development and performance of PCP, if it is to learning, positive behavioural support, functional retain its special characteristics rather than decay behaviour assessment, social care governance and into an arrangement defined by administrative systemic consultation processes to sexuality and expediency and resource constraints (Cambridge & love. David Allen and colleagues examine and report Carnaby, 2005). on the development and implementation of an e- learning training initiative in positive behavioural References support, mapping the process of implementation Cambridge P & Carnaby S (2005) Person Centred and discussing the problems and potentials of the Planning and Care Management for People with Learning Disabilities. London: Jessica Kingsley. model. Konstantinos Ntinas discusses and reviews Northern Ireland Clinical and Social Care Governance the issue of teachers’ resistance to the Support Team (2007) Social Care Governance: A practice implementation of functional behaviour assessment workbook. Health, Social Services and Public in schools, and offers helpful pointers for its Safety/SCIE. successful implementation. Learning Disability Review VOLUME 13 ISSUE 2 AUGUST 2008 © Pavilion Journals (Brighton) Limited

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