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SUbScrIbE To commUNITy lIVINg 1 comments: These units provide neither assessment nor treatment and should be

renamed prisons; What can we learn from Josiah Wedgwood?
and support our aims to 4-5 News: Learning Disability Voices forecast £926m shortage by 2020;
achieve for people with Police accused of misconduct in treatment of 11 year old autistic girl;
learning difficulties everything Stay Up Late appeals for support for user-led research project
we would want for ourselves.
5 Elfrida centenary – a year of discovery and celebration
Dancing for joy. Tony bamforth on what this year means for the Elfrida Society
oUr EDITorIAl polIcy: Dance-Syndrome
enjoying one of their 6 Why ATUs don’t work
 To promote equality of citizenship inclusive workshops Sam Sly explains why ATUs fail to rehabilitate people
 To promote the inclusion of people page 4
with learning difficulties in every 8 Should staff discourage people from having their photos taken?
aspect of society You could be helping to make people invisible, says Seán Kelly
 To provide readers with essential 8 Squaring the circle for vulnerable people
information in accessible language Sarah reilly on how volunteers are making a real difference
 To encourage people to express
themselves in the magazine 10 Social care law Do these councils’ policies ensure ‘wellbeing’?
 To encourage people to work Does cost capping own home care at the equivalent value of those for a care home
together to produce their own fit with the principle of wellbeing enshrined in the Care Act? asks belinda Schwehr
solutions
 To challenge laws, regulations and 12 Speaking with one voice
traditional ideas which hamper Are staff discouraging It is vital that families and self advocates unite. They have much to gain and a
people from achieving their people from having their great deal to lose by not speaking in one voice, says Jan Walmsley
photos taken? – page 8
aspirations Subscribers can now get a FREE digital version of the magazine.
 To publicise examples of radical If you would like to receive this, please contact: 14 research: How are care Act assessments affecting adults with learning disabilities?

Val Williams, Jon Symonds, caroline miles, mike Steel and Sue porter, a team from the
ideas being put into practice. rosecli@btinternet.com with your email address Norah Fry Centre for Disability Studies, report on their findings
16-18 culture section
I would like to subscribe to community living and enclose my cheque (made out to C.L. Initiatives Ltd) for £.............. Dance: A dream comes true for Hannah
Pay securely by PayPal from: www.cl-initiatives.co.uk Please ensure you include your postal address on the form. Hannah Sampson was always going to have to battle harder than others to prove
You can also pay by standing order or by direct bank transfer to HSbc (chorley) sort code: 40-17-21 ac. no.: 31492489. herself. She told Simon Jarrett how she did it.
Drama: Siberia – where parents take the lead
 £30 individuals, local charities and small private organisations Speaking with one voice. melissa Daly and richard Hayhow travelled to Siberia where they discovered
 £50 authorities, national charities paying through their head office and national private organisations Forums unite to get the a land where parents are taking the initiative in their children’s care
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 £18 students studying a relevant course agenda – page 12 Simon Jarrett talks exclusively to Channel 4’s On-screen Diversity Executive

Ramy El-Bergamy
 £23 unpaid carers, unwaged and those working 10 or fewer hours p.w.
 £37 Eire & Europe personal  £56 Eire & Europe authorities 19 A moment in history: The lone libertarian and the Mental Deficiency Act of 1913
 £43 overseas personal  £58 overseas authorities Simon Jarrett on the lone battle fought by Josiah Wedgwood

Name 20 Housing: Short term solutions could have long term consequences
Faced with grant cuts, some local authorities are resorting to short-term housing solutions
Organisation which could have long-term human and financial costs, rosemary Trustam heard at
H&SA’s winter conference
Address
22 Autism: Defining a spectrum
A vision for the michael geoffrey baron, a founder member of what later became the National Autistic
Postcode ‘gig society’? – page 26 Society, reflects on the Society’s early struggles and the challenges that face a new
generation of parents in tough times

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How did you find out about Community Living? 24 Is there any point to commissioning?
mike Webster comes to the conclusion that, yes, there is a point to commissioning
when it is a creative force that gets the best out of people and organisations

26 A vision for the ‘gig society’?
Send to: C.L. Initiatives Ltd, No. 6 The Square, Waterhouse Green, Whittle-le-Woods, Chorley, Lancashire PR6 7LF Paul Richards has already started and run several successful projects. Now he has
Enquiries: Tel. 0125 727 0430 another project, Gig Buddies, which has really taken off, as he told Seán Kelly
Community Living is published quarterly by a small charity, C.L. Initiatives Ltd, with support from Three Cs, Integrate TV for all: Channel 4’s
(Preston & Chorley), Linkability, UCLan, the Elfrida Society and Respond. On-screen Diversity 28 classic images: Duelling banjos and retarded rednecks
Executive on their Simon Jarrett discusses a disturbing 1970s film classic which peddles some
07/16 commitment – page 18 very old ‘retardation’ myths

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