What do the manifestos say about disability? Chris Grover and Hannah Morgan There are 14 million disabled people in the UK (over a fifth of its population). They are more likely to be unemployed, in poverty and facing disadvantages in education, health and housing. As recent exposés demonstrate, too many people living with mental distress […]
Brown, M., James, E. and Hatton, C. (2019) Is Care Transformed? A Review of Transforming Care in England Lancaster: Centre for Disability Research. This report is available in pdf and word (docx) format. The UK government policy of Building the Right Support in England was launched in 2015 as part of Transforming Care. Transforming Care […]
We were delighted to host our Danish NNDR colleague Anthon Sand Jørgensen for a short visit this autumn. Anthon, who is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Work Via University College and undertaking doctoral research at Aalborg University visited Lancaster in September and October 2018. A drive from campus into Lancaster reminded us […]
by Rebecca Fish In 2012 I did some research on 3 locked wards for women on an NHS secure unit for people with learning disabilities in England. People are sent to these units under the Mental Health Act if they have broken the law, or if their behaviour is a risk to themselves or others. […]
The MCA is 10 – Time to Party The 27th September 2017 is the 10th Birthday of the Mental Capacity Act (MCA). We want to celebrate all that the Act brings to social work practice including greater control, human rights and even the opportunity to make decisions that may seem unwise to may. The MCA […]
We (Elaine James, Hannah Morgan and Rob Mitchell) wrote an article for the Current Issues section of the journal Disability & Society to share our ideas about how social work with people with learning disabilities can be more effective at upholding and promoting people’s rights. For us social work practice must be grounded in the […]
Within the Centre for Disability Research (CeDR) at Lancaster University we’ve been supporting the 7 Days of Action campaign (see their website https://www.sevendaysofaction.net/ ). This campaign, led by activist families has three aims: to get people with autism and learning difficulties out of in-patient settings and back into their communities; to keep them in their […]
by Rebecca Fish Physical restraint is holding somebody to stop them moving. It is done to stop harm to people or damage to property. Staff sometimes use physical restraint to restrict someone’s freedom of movement. When people think about staying in units, they often remember being physically restrained, or seeing other people being restrained. […]
On 9th November 2016, CeDR welcomed visitors from Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) in Russia. They were: Professor Leonid Kapilevich, Doctor of medicine, Department of Sports Disciplines Professor Natalia Lukianova, Doctor of philosophy, head of department of )social communication Dr Ksenia Davletyarova, Assistant prof, Department of Physical Training Dr Elena Rogotneva, Assistant of prof, Department of […]
by Rebecca Fish Throughout my career, I have met many family members of people who have been detained in inpatient units. I have talked to people who have had their son or daughter ‘placed’ in various services, not just forensic units, for many different reasons. Yet there was a common feeling amongst all of them: […]
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