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Learning difficulties

Do you recognise pain in someone with a learning difficulty and dementia?

Heather Wilkinson, Diana Kerr, Colm Cunningham
27 November 2008

Our lives, our communities: Promoting independence and inclusion for people with learning difficulties

Craig Hart, Chris Shane, Karen Spencer and Angela Still
14 August 2007

The impact of the Supporting People programme on adults with learning disabilities

Rachel Fyson, Beth Tarleton and Linda Ward
14 August 2007

Person-centred planning in social care: A scoping review

Sandra Dowling, Jill Manthorpe and Sarah Cowley in association with Sarah King, Vicki Raymond, Wendy Perez and Pauline Weinstein
20 July 2006

In the know: Implementing good practice

Diana Kerr and Heather Wilkinson
23 May 2005

Peer support for people with learning difficulties accessing direct payments

Catherine Bewley and Linsay McCulloch
20 December 2004

Employing people with learning disabilities: A handbook for employers

Susan Hemmings and Jenny Morris
7 October 2004

Support for people with learning difficulties in residential settings who develop dementia

Heather Wilkinson, Diana Kerr, Colm Cunningham and Catherine Rae
1 June 2004

Telling it ourselves: An oral history

Black Friendly Group
4 April 2004

Promoting the involvement of people with learning difficulties in staff recruitment

Ruth Townsley, Joyce Howarth, Mark Graham and Pete LeGrys
4 September 2002

Success in supported employment for people with learning difficulties

Stephanie Jones, Jeff Morgan, D
20 June 2002

Fulfilling The Promises: A Response From The Joseph Rowntree Foundation To The Proposed Framework For Services For People With Learning Disabilities In Wales

Joseph Rowntree Foundation
28 February 2002

Demonstrating control of decisions by adults with learning difficulties who have high support needs

James Edge
4 October 2001

Creating more choice for people with learning difficulties

Margaret Baines, Mary Brayshay, David Norman, Durbali Roy, Mark Wallis and Philip Walsh with Cathy Wintersgill and Sue Lindsay
23 August 2001

Room to move: A book for parents of young people with learning disabilities leaving home

Alison Cowen
27 February 2001

Paid work and housing: A comparative guide to the impact of employment on housing and support for people with learning disabilities

Jenny Pannell and Ken Simons with Margaret Macadam
15 November 2000

Life on the edge: The experiences of people with a learning disability who do not use specialist services

Ken Simons
10 October 2000

Developing new lifestyles with disabled people

Angela Cole, Barbara McIntosh and Andrea Whittaker
18 September 2000

The impact of independent advice and information about housing and support options for people with learning difficulties

Ken Simons
7 June 2000

Going with the flow: Choice, dementia and people with learning difficulties

Kirsten Stalker, Paul Duckett and Murna Downs
6 December 1999

Housing and support for people with learning difficulties

Maurice Harker and Nigel King
16 November 1999

Adults with learning difficulties' involvement in health care decision-making

Kirsty Keywood, Margaret Flynn and Sara Fovargue
10 October 1999

People with learning difficulties and their access to direct payments schemes

Andrew Bright and Mark Drake
10 June 1999

Implementing direct payments for people with learning difficulties

Tony Ryan
19 March 1999

Continuing education and equal opportunities for adults with learning difficulties

Jeannie Sutcliffe and Yola Jacobsen
1 November 1998

People with learning difficulties and their ageing family carers

Carol Walker and Alan Walker
14 October 1998

Services for older people with learning difficulties

Jane Fitzgerald
30 June 1998

Advocacy for parents with learning difficulties

Wendy Booth, Tim Booth
30 June 1998

'Low support' options for people with learning difficulties

Ken Simons
30 April 1998

Direct payments for people with learning difficulties

Jean Collins, Andrew Holman, Simone Aspis, Yve Amor
31 July 1997

The early years of supported living in the UK

Ken Simons, Linda Ward
31 May 1997

Growing up with parents who have learning difficulties

Tim Booth, Wendy Booth
31 March 1997

Involving people with learning difficulties in staff recruitment

Ruth Townsley , Margaret Macadam
31 August 1996

Further education for people with learning difficulties

National Institute of Adult Continuing Education
30 April 1996

Supported employment for people with learning difficulties

Malcolm Bass, Robert Drewett
30 April 1996

Housing support and the rights of people with learning difficulties

Jean Collins
1 March 1996

Respite services for adults with learning difficulties

Lesley Cotterill
1 March 1996

Disparities in service provision for people with learning difficulties living in the community

Carol Walker, Tony Ryan
1 December 1995

Crime against people with learning difficulties

Christopher Williams
31 July 1995

Housing and support for people with learning difficulties

Ken Simons
31 March 1995

Moving from hospital into the community: an evaluation by people with learning difficulties

Alice Etherington, Brian Stocker and Andrea Whittaker
1 March 1995

Living in the community after leaving long-stay hospital

Paul Cambridge, Lesley Hayes, Martin Knapp, Erika Gould and Andrew Fenyo
30 September 1994
Legislation

The distribution of UK household CO2 emissions

Joshua Thumim et al.
24 November 2011

Rethinking disability policy

Jenny Morris
15 November 2011

Tackling fuel poverty during the transition to a low-carbon economy

Paul Ekins and Matthew Lockwood
26 October 2011

Time to reconsider UK energy and fuel poverty policies?

Helen Stockton and Ron Campbell
26 October 2011

Welsh housing policy: where next?

Kathleen Kelly and Tamsin Stirling
18 October 2011

Tenure rights and responsibilities

Dave Cowan et al.
9 December 2010

The impact of foreign policy on local communities

Rachel Briggs
30 November 2010

Between decent work and forced labour: examining the continuum of exploitation

Klara Skrivankova
23 November 2010

Policing cannabis as a Class C drug

Tiggey May, Martin Duffy, Hamish Warburton, Mike Hough
21 January 2007

Drug Consumption Rooms - Summary report of the Independent Working Group

Independent Working Group on Drug Consumption Rooms
22 May 2006

Implementing new powers for private sector housing renewal

Rick Groves and Sian Sankey
15 December 2005

Children on the edge of care: Human rights and the Children Act

Jenny Morris
10 November 2005

Human rights obligations and policy supporting children and families

Clem Henricson and Andrew Bainham
25 May 2005

Strategies against poverty: A shared road map

Donald Hirsch
13 December 2004

Progress on safeguards for children living away from home

Marian Stuart and Catherine Baines
15 November 2004

Safeguards for vulnerable children

Marian Stuart and Catherine Baines
15 November 2004

Prescribing heroin: what is the evidence?

Gerry V Stimson and Nicky Metrebian
11 September 2003

Resolving the tensions in parenting policy

Clem Henricson
18 March 2003

Equalities and diversity

Joseph Rowntree Foundation
1 March 2003

Commonhold Proposals for Commonhold Regulations

Joseph Rowntree Foundation
29 January 2003

Border tensions: devolution, rents and housing benefit

Steve Wilcox
20 December 2002

Putting family-friendly working policies into practice

Sue Bond, Jeff Hyman, Juliette Summers and Sarah Wise
13 February 2002

The impact of legislative change on the independent, residential care sector

Stephen O'Kell
28 January 2002

Managing individual home-ownership within multi-owned property

Douglas Robertson and Katharine Rosenberry
18 October 2001

Private Sector Housing Renewal: Reform of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996, Local Government and Housing Act 1989 and Housing Act 1985

Joseph Rowntree Foundation
31 July 2001

Drugs: dilemmas, choices and the law

The Royal College of Physicians and The Police Foundation
12 December 2000

Commonhold law: problems and potential solutions

Katherine Rosenberry
31 July 2000

Responses from the JRF to the Housing Green Paper: Commonhold Law

Joseph Rowntree Foundation
30 June 2000

Listening to children's views: The findings and recommendations of recent research

Ann O'Quigley
17 March 2000

The effect of labour regulation on recruitment

Stanley Siebert
16 May 1999

Meeting Part M and designing Lifetime Homes

Edited by Caitriona Carroll, Julie Cowans and David Darton
25 April 1999

Legal remedies for neighbour nuisance: Comparing Scottish and English approaches

Caroline Hunter and Tom Mullen with Suzie Scott
29 August 1998

The impact of the Child Support Act on lone mothers and their children

Karen Clarke, Gary Craig, Caroline Glendinning
1 March 1996
Living standards

Sustainable income standards: Towards a greener minimum?

Donald Hirsch et al.
7 December 2011

Recession, poverty and sustainable livelihoods in Bradford

Lucy Brill et al.
24 July 2011

A minimum income standard for the UK in 2011

Donald Hirsch
4 July 2011

The impact of the global economic downturn on communities and poverty in the UK

Naomi Hossain et al.
4 March 2011

Global influences on the cost of a minimum standard of living in the UK

Donald Hirsch et al.
4 March 2011

Vulnerability to heatwaves and drought: adaptation to climate change

Magnus Benzie et al.
20 February 2011

A minimum income standard for rural households

Donald Hirsch et al.
23 November 2010

Providing personalised support to rough sleepers

Juliette Hough and Becky Rice
27 October 2010

Home-ownership and the distribution of personal wealth: A review of the evidence

Lindsey Appleyard and Karen Rowlingson
6 September 2010

Resilience and the recession in six deprived communities: Preparing for worse to come?

Elaine Batty and Ian Cole
20 July 2010

A minimum income standard for the UK in 2010

Donald Hirsch et al.
5 July 2010

Can equity release help older home-owners improve their quality of life?

Rachel Terry and Richard Gibson
28 January 2010

A minimum income standard for Northern Ireland

Noel Smith et al.
28 September 2009

A minimum income standard for Britain in 2009

Donald Hirsch, Abigail Davis and Noel Smith
30 June 2009

Why do people think inequality is worse than poverty?

Jeremy Seabrook
10 December 2008

Ending severe child poverty

Jason Strelitz
10 November 2008

Social evils and social good

Anthony Grayling
23 September 2008

Has there been a decline in values in British Society?

Anthony Browne
23 September 2008

The support older people want and the services they need

Roger Clough et al.
17 January 2007

Response to the Scottish Affairs Committee Inquiry into Poverty in Scotland

Joseph Rowntree Foundation
1 November 2006

Changes in communal provision for adult social care: 1991-2001

Laura Banks, Philip Haynes, Susan Balloch and Michael Hill
13 July 2006

Response to first report of the Pensions Commission

Joseph Rowntree Foundation
28 February 2005

Work history and income in later life

Elena Bardasi and Stephen P Jenkins
28 April 2002

Fulfilling The Promises: A Response From The Joseph Rowntree Foundation To The Proposed Framework For Services For People With Learning Disabilities In Wales

Joseph Rowntree Foundation
28 February 2002

Transport and Social Exclusion Consultation

Joseph Rowntree Foundation
22 November 2001

Making the grade: Education, the labour market and young people

Peter Dolton, Gerry Makepeace, Sandra Hutton and Rick Audas
17 November 1999

Evidence to the Low Pay Commission

Joseph Rowntree Foundation
31 August 1999

Response to consultation on fuel poverty/HEES

Joseph Rowntree Foundation
30 June 1999

Welfare beyond work: Active participation in a new welfare state

Donald Hirsch
29 June 1999

Response to discussion document on rural England

Joseph Rowntree Foundation
30 April 1999

A study of town life: Living standards in the City of York 100 years after Rowntree

Meg Huby, Jonathan Bradshaw and Anne Corden
11 April 1999

Access to home contents insurance for low-income households

Claire Whyley and Elaine Kempson
1 March 1998

Long-term unemployment and the threat of 'social exclusion'

Dr Jochen Clasen, Arthur Gould
31 July 1997

Living well into old age

Jean Collins, Andrew Holman, Simone Aspis, Yve Amor
30 June 1997

Child's play: Facilitating play on housing estates

Rob Wheway and Alison Millward
31 May 1997

A new way of measuring relative financial needs

Richard Berthoud and Reuben Ford
1 December 1996

Life on a low income

Elaine Kempson
31 May 1996

Pensioners' spending patterns and living standards

Deborah Smeaton, Ruth Hancock
31 March 1995

Income maintenance and living standards

Lydia Morris
1 November 1994

Disadvantage in rural Scotland

A team from Aberdeen University
30 September 1994
Local authorities

Serving deprived communities in a recession

Annette Hastings et al.
26 January 2012

White working-class neighbourhoods: Common themes and policy suggestions

Dr Steve Garner
28 November 2011

UK migration: the leadership role of housing providers

John Perry
22 August 2011

How can local authorities with less money support better outcomes for older people?

Centre for Policy on Ageing
19 January 2011

Street cleanliness in deprived and better-off neighbourhoods: a clean sweep

By a team from the University of Glasgow and Heriot-Watt University
24 November 2009

Street cleanliness in deprived and better-off neighbourhoods: a clean sweep

Annette Hastings, Nick Bailey, Glen Bramley, Rob Croudace and David Watkins
24 November 2009

Calculating the costs of efficient care homes

William Laing
16 September 2008

Providing Gypsy and Traveller sites: contentious spaces

Joanna Richardson
24 October 2007

Children on the edge of care: Human rights and the Children Act

Jenny Morris
10 November 2005

Mapping governance at the local level

Kirsten Bound, Michael Carley, Julie Harrison, Paul Skidmore and Victoria Winckler
15 September 2005

Bringing 'neighbourhood' centre stage

Michael Carley
21 March 2005

Local Agenda 21, community planning and neighbourhood renewal

Karen Lucas, Andrew Ross and Sara Fuller
27 May 2003

Evaluating the significance of local compacts

Gary Craig, Marilyn Taylor and Mick Wilkinson with Kate Bloor, Surya Munro, and Alia Syed
14 January 2002

Local authorities' influence on the social housing sector

Chapman Hendy
18 June 2001

The impact of local government reorganisation on social services work

Gary Craig and Jill Manthorpe
22 September 1999

The 'representativeness' of councillors

Alice Brown, Amy Jones and Fiona Mackay
8 July 1999

Emerging issues for independent local housing companies

Brendan Nevin
27 June 1999

Developing 'local compacts' between local government and the voluntary sector

Gary Craig, Marilyn Taylor, Clare Szanto and Mick Wilkinson
17 February 1999

Local authority stock turnover in the 1990s

Hal Pawson
30 September 1998

Independent Visitors and disabled young people

Abigail Knight
1 January 1998

Partnership between government and voluntary organisations

Marilyn Taylor
1 November 1997

Enhancing local electoral turnout

Colin Rallings, Michael Thrasher, James Downe
30 September 1996

Local authority charging policies for community care

Sally Balwin, Neil Lunt
31 May 1996

New housebuilding and the changing planning system

Glen Bramley, Craig Watkins
30 April 1996

The relationship between local government and voluntary organisations

Joy MacKeith
31 March 1996

The impact of charging policy on the lives of disabled people

Mark Chetwynd, Jane Ritchie
1 February 1996

Regulating residential care for elderly people

Patricia Day, Rudolf Klein, Sharon Redmayne
1 January 1996

Inter-agency working in practice

Robin Hamilton, Sue Essex, Konica Razzaque
1 January 1996

Licensing private rented housing

Geoffrey Randall
1 November 1995

Access to capital for local services

Richard Stanton
1 November 1995

Local Education Authorities: accountability and control

Stephen Ball, Lesley Henshaw
1 November 1995

Current relationships between local authorities colleges and schools in Scotland

Ian Finlay
30 September 1995

The role of Local Education Authorities in the provision of special education

Alan Millward, David Skidmore
30 September 1995

Local authority experience of compulsory competitive tendering

Nirmala Rao, Ken Young
31 July 1995

The working of joint arrangements

Tony Travers, Stephen Biggs, George Jones
30 June 1995

Options for business rate reform

Kevin Denny, John Hall, Stephen Smith
31 May 1995

Secondments between central and local government

Michael Clarke
1 March 1995

The feasibility of a local sales tax

John Hall and Stephen Smith
1 January 1995

The operation of the non domestic rate

Riate Hayle and Tony Travers
1 November 1994
Local government

Serving deprived communities in a recession

Annette Hastings et al.
26 January 2012

UK migration: the leadership role of housing providers

John Perry
22 August 2011

Working in neighbourhoods in Bradford

Liz Richardson
5 April 2011
Lone parents

Lone parents working under 16 hours a week ('mini-jobs')

Kate Bell, Mike Brewer and David Phillips
2 October 2007

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