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Ken Simons (1998)
Getting a Foot in the Door: the Strategic Significance of Supported LivingTizard Learning Disability Review, 3
J. Mansell (1996)
Issues in community services in Britain
Jim Mansell Tizard Centre, University of Kent, UK A continuing concern over many years has been the gap between research, policy and practice in learning disability services. The results achieved in demonstration projects, instead of forming a platform upon which later development builds in a process of continuing improvement, often represent an apparently unattainable target as later developments become paler imitations of the original. This has been very clear in supported housing for some time (Mansell, 1996, 2006; Simons, 1998), and seems to be happening in more recent innovations like individual budgets (Glendinning et al, 2008), where the results achieved do not match those of the original innovation. Alongside disappointing results, the knowledge and commitment that accompany pioneering projects seem not to grow but to weaken over time, and many of the opportunities demonstrated by research are never taken up because services are just not good enough to put them into practice. How else to interpret the finding, for example, that after an initial spurt of development after leaving institutional care for a life in the community, people with learning disabilities made, on average, no further gains over 12 years living in community services (Cambridge et al, 2001)?
Tizard Learning Disability Review – Pier Professional
Published: Jan 1, 2011
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