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Editorial Paul Cambridge THE TIZARD CENTRE UNIVERSITY OF KENT AT CANTERBURY FROM ECONOMIC CONTROL TO SPIRITUAL MATTERS AND EMANCIPATION (AND THE FUTURE OF THE TIZARD CENTRE) This is an unusual issue of the Tizard Learning Disability Review, as it contains a wide mix of papers ranging across contrasting and sometimes polarised subject matter. Europe also figures prominently in this issue from a number of angles. First, Europe. We have a research update from colleagues working in Hamburg leading an EUfunded project designed to combat discrimination against people with learning disabilities, comparing how service organisations and systems in Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain and England work for and against the participation of people with learning disabilities. The project will exchange information and experience, evaluate initiatives in local services in the five countries and aims to promote individualised and person-centred support which is emancipatory rather than controlling. Interestingly, it is human rights in a European context which helps inform a legal feature by Richard Kramer on the Bournewood case, centred on consent to admission to hospital and detention, both central concerns for discrimination against people with learning disabilities and mental health law. This issue also contains a comparative research feature in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Tizard Learning Disability Review Pier Professional

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Cambridge, Paul
Tizard Learning Disability Review , Volume 7 (4) – Oct 1, 2002
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Paul Cambridge THE TIZARD CENTRE UNIVERSITY OF KENT AT CANTERBURY FROM ECONOMIC CONTROL TO SPIRITUAL MATTERS AND EMANCIPATION (AND THE FUTURE OF THE TIZARD CENTRE) This is an unusual issue of the Tizard Learning Disability Review, as it contains a wide mix of papers ranging across contrasting and sometimes polarised subject matter. Europe also figures prominently in this issue from a number of angles. First, Europe. We have a research update from colleagues working in Hamburg leading an EUfunded project designed to combat discrimination against people with learning disabilities, comparing how service organisations and systems in Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain and England work for and against the participation of people with learning disabilities. The project will exchange information and experience, evaluate initiatives in local services in the five countries and aims to promote individualised and person-centred support which is emancipatory rather than controlling. Interestingly, it is human rights in a European context which helps inform a legal feature by Richard Kramer on the Bournewood case, centred on consent to admission to hospital and detention, both central concerns for discrimination against people with learning disabilities and mental health law. This issue also contains a comparative research feature in

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