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The Road Ahead - resources
3. National information for professionals and partnership boards
- General - ethnicity
- Choices - housing
- Choices - work
- Services and policy development - transition planning
- Services and policy development - transition planning - support
- Services and policy development - personal assistants
- Feelings and emotions - sexuality
- Changes - girlfriends, boyfriends, sex and sexuality
| General - ethnicity | |
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| N32: The Ethnicity Toolkit for Learning Disability Partnership Boards, by ARC | |
| Target Audience | Aimed at people from ethnic communities in relation to the implementation of 'Valuing People'. |
| Content | A toolkit for Learning Disability Partnership Boards to use in their local communities. Accessible version available. |
| Availability & Updates | Available from 'Valuing People' website |
| Contact |
ARC House Marsden Street Chesterfield S40 1JY Tel. 01246 555043 Web: www.arcuk.org.uk |
| N33: Learning difficulties and ethnicity: A framework for action, by Valuing People Support Team | |
| Target Audience | Transition champions. |
| Content | Includes a chapter on transition, highlighting issues that are of particular relevance to young people from minority ethnic communities. |
| Availability & Updates | Available from 'Valuing People' website or Martin Routledge. No information on updates. |
| Contact | Martin Routledge Valuing People Support Team C/o NWTDT The Globe St James Square Accrington, BB5 0RE Tel: 01254 306858 Web: www.valuingpeople.gov.uk/ |
| Choices - housing | |
| N34: Housing Options - Tools for planning | |
| Target Audience | Professionals who help with planning housing options. |
| Content | A resource pack which includes the 'Your place to live' manual and video, 'Where I want to live' photocards and other Housing Options publications. |
| Availability & Updates | Disseminated via workshops. £140 per delegate. Regularly updated via conference programme. Information also available on their website. |
| Contact | Housing Options 78a High Street Witney Oxfordshire, OX28 6HL Tel: 0845 4561497 Email: enquiries@housingoptions.org.uk Web: www.housingoptions.org.uk |
| Choices - work | |
| N35: Making the jump - Including learner's pack, by NIACE | |
| Target Audience | Professionals planning courses. Learner's pack is for young people with learning disabilities wanting to make the transition to work. |
| Content | Resource that includes information on how to set up a course to help people with learning difficulties make the transition to work, overview of policy. Learner's pack gives help and examples of people with learning disabilities getting work. |
| Availability & Updates | Learner's pack is in an accessible format and available on audio CD No information on updates. |
| Contact | NIACE Tel: Rachel Johnson 0116 204 4216 Web: www.niace.org.uk |
| Service and policy development - transition planning | |
| N36: Information Pack for Transition Champions, by Department of Health | |
| Target Audience | Transition champions on Partnership Boards. |
| Content | 65 pages on the role of transition champions, getting started via Partnership Boards, who's involved, etc., plus information on the main services involved in transition (Connexions, Social Services and Education). |
| Availability & Updates | Written in plain English. Available from the Valuing People website. No information on updates. |
| Contact | Department of Health Valuing People Support Team Web: www.valuingpeople.gov.uk |
| N37: Transition for young people with learning disabilities - Developing local practice, by Institute for Applied Health & Social Policy and King's College | |
| Target Audience | Service Managers. |
| Content | Help to formulate an action plan for transition in a local area. Includes 4 parts: 1 - Pathways to transition, 2 - Sharing assessment, planning and information 3 - Linking children's services and adult services 4 - Keeping the young person in the middle - leaving school - what next? |
| Availability & Updates | No information on updates. |
| Contact | Institute for Applied Health & Social Policy and King's College, London Web: nic@rowland-crosby.freeserve.co.uk |
| N38: Transition Planning: Case Study 7 | |
| Target Audience | Professionals. |
| Content | Describes the work of three SEN Regional Partnerships (East of England, North East & South West) on transition planning and points to further information about them. |
| Availability & Updates | Available from the DfES. No information on updates. |
| Contact |
Department for Education and Skills SEN Regional Partnerships DfES Publications Centre Tel: 0845 60 222 60 Web: www.dfes.gov.uk/sen |
| Services and policy development - transition planning - support | |
| N39: Talking Mats and learning disability | |
| Target Audience | People working with people with a learning disability, particularly those with a communication difficulty. |
| Content | Book containing guidelines and Talking Mats training package. Accompanying video shows Talking Mats being used with 3 people. |
| Availability & Updates | Available for £50 from AAC. Produced in 2002. No information on updates. |
| Contact | AAC Research Team, Dept. of Psychology, University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA Tel: 01786 467645 Web: www.aacscotland.com |
| N40: Ask Us2: A multimedia consultation with disabled children and young people 1and 2 | |
| Target Audience | Key people in local authorities who are taking forward the Quality Protects programme. Presents key messages from young people. |
| Content | CD Roms on consulting with disabled children. |
| Availability & Updates | Available from the Children's Society, £5. Produced in 2003. |
| Contact | National Youth Agency The National Youth Agency 17 - 23 Albion Street Leicester, LE1 6GD Switchboard - 0116 285 3700 Enquiry Desk - 0116 285 3792 Fax - 0116 285 3777 Minicom - 0116 285 3788 E-mail: nya@nya.org.uk Enquiry Desk: dutydesk@nya.org.uk Web: www.nya.org.uk |
| Services and policy development - personal assistants | |
| N41: Creating independence and inclusion: Youth personal support scheme - good practice guidelines | |
| Target Audience | Young disabled people, carers and professionals. |
| Content | Book and video pack describing the journey of the Youth Personal Assistance Support Scheme - a project developed by WECIL. In 2 parts, 'setting the scene' (policy context, principles, values and definitions, respite care and personal assistance) and 'good practice guidelines' which describe the work of Youth Pass. |
| Availability & Updates | Available from the NYA. No information on updates. |
| Contact | National Youth Agency The National Youth Agency 17 - 23 Albion Street Leicester, LE1 6GD Switchboard - 0116 285 3700 Enquiry Desk - 0116 285 3792 Fax - 0116 285 3777 Minicom - 0116 285 3788 E-mail: nya@nya.org.uk Enquiry Desk: dutydesk@nya.org.uk Web: www.nya.org.uk |
| Feelings and emotions - sexuality | |
| N42: sexuality and learning disability | |
| Target Audience | Staff who work with people with learning disabilities |
| Content | Highlights a range of creative approaches to working with people with learning disabilities. Based on learning disability training carried out by the fpa. |
| Availability & Updates | £9.99 from fpa. No information on updates. |
| Contact | Family Planning Association PO Box 1078 East Oxford DO Oxford, OX4 6JE Tel: 01865 719418 Web: www.fpa.org.uk |
| Changes - girlfriends, boyfriends, sex and sexuality | |
| N43: sexuality and learning disability | |
| Target Audience | Staff who work with people with learning disabilities. |
| Content | Highlights a range of creative approaches to working with people with learning disabilities. Based on learning disability training carried out by the fpa. |
| Availability & Updates | £9.99 from fpa. No information on updates. |
| Contact | Family Planning Association PO Box 1078 East Oxford DO Oxford, OX4 6JE Tel: 01865 719418 Web: www.fpa.org.uk |
