Long-term and community care team
This team was established in 1976, combining previous work on learning disabilities with other long-term care work done by the then King's Fund Centre, and was first referred to as the long-term care and community care team from 1979.
The team was concerned with physical disability, care of older people and mental illness, as well as learning disabilities; and the emphasis was not solely on standards of institutional care. The King's Fund was, and has always been, dedicated to the view that people with disabilities are ordinary people who want to lead an ordinary life.
The major work done on learning disabilities during this time was the Ordinary life project, the first publication being An ordinary life: comprehensive locally-based residential services for mentally handicapped people published in 1980 and reprinted in 1982 with a new preface.
A full list of all the publications in the Ordinary Life series can be found in appendix 1 of An ordinary life in practice: developing comprehensive community-based services for people with learning difficulties, 1988.
The long-term care and community care team was renamed the community living development team (CLDT) in 1988. The CLDT was combined with other Centre departments in 1993 under the name of community care, led by Janice Robinson.
Key staff: James Smith, David Towell, Roger Blunden, Joan Rush, Andrea Whittaker, Tom McAusland, Diana Twitchin, Yvonne Christie, Maureen Oswin, Linda Moore.
Looking at our services: service evaluation by people with learning difficulties: a book for people with learning difficulties and their supporters who want to get involved in evaluating services (1997). The aim of this book was to help more people with learning difficulties to get involved in evaluating their own services. It was written for people with learning difficulties and for supporters and staff who work closely with them.
Double discrimination: issues and services for people with learning difficulties from black and ethnic minority communities (1990). This handbook was a response to the concern about the lack of information on good services for people with learning difficulties from black and ethnic minority communities. It brought together the limited amount of work that had been done thus far in this area, and its primary aim was to provide practical suggestions for service improvements.
To access these publications, use the King's Fund Information and library service.
The team was concerned with physical disability, care of older people and mental illness, as well as learning disabilities; and the emphasis was not solely on standards of institutional care. The King's Fund was, and has always been, dedicated to the view that people with disabilities are ordinary people who want to lead an ordinary life.
The major work done on learning disabilities during this time was the Ordinary life project, the first publication being An ordinary life: comprehensive locally-based residential services for mentally handicapped people published in 1980 and reprinted in 1982 with a new preface.
A full list of all the publications in the Ordinary Life series can be found in appendix 1 of An ordinary life in practice: developing comprehensive community-based services for people with learning difficulties, 1988.
The long-term care and community care team was renamed the community living development team (CLDT) in 1988. The CLDT was combined with other Centre departments in 1993 under the name of community care, led by Janice Robinson.
Key staff: James Smith, David Towell, Roger Blunden, Joan Rush, Andrea Whittaker, Tom McAusland, Diana Twitchin, Yvonne Christie, Maureen Oswin, Linda Moore.
Other key publications
Between 1992 and 1996 the CLDT (and latterly the community care group) published a series of nine volumes under the title Information exchange on self-advocacy and user participation: services to people with learning difficulties. The Information Exchange was produced particularly for supporters and advisers of self-advocacy groups and people with responsibility for developing effective ways of working in partnership with users in planning and delivering services.Looking at our services: service evaluation by people with learning difficulties: a book for people with learning difficulties and their supporters who want to get involved in evaluating services (1997). The aim of this book was to help more people with learning difficulties to get involved in evaluating their own services. It was written for people with learning difficulties and for supporters and staff who work closely with them.
Double discrimination: issues and services for people with learning difficulties from black and ethnic minority communities (1990). This handbook was a response to the concern about the lack of information on good services for people with learning difficulties from black and ethnic minority communities. It brought together the limited amount of work that had been done thus far in this area, and its primary aim was to provide practical suggestions for service improvements.
To access these publications, use the King's Fund Information and library service.
