This page provides access to a range of NDT papers reflecting the Team's work and policy concerns. While not all are directly linked to our main current projects, they still reflect the NDT perspective on a range of important issues.

Most of the papers are in Acrobat PDF format. To download, right-click (PC) or click-hold (Mac) the link. You will need Acrobat reader to see them on your PC.	To download Adobe Acrobat reader, click here --

	Moving to Inclusion
	This article was first published in Mental Health Today in April 2006 and is available here with the kind permission of Pavilion Publishing. It describes how the Inclusion Traffic Lights can be used to measure the effectiveness of day services in promting social inclusion. (See also the Emerging Themes paper," Accidents at the inclusion traffic lights".)	Download "Moving to Inclusion
	Unpaid work experience - getting it right
	Some people work for nothing as volunteers for a charitable or community organisation, and a number of organisations help to make the arrangements and support the person. The NDT's publication 'A Real Asset' helps organisations to think about how to do this well. It is different when the person is working for nothing for a commercial business. While the business owner is making a profit, they hope, the person gets nothing. We have developed these guidelines to show how 'unpaid work experience' can, if used carefully, provide real opportunities.	Download "Unpaid work experience - getting it right" (PDF file, 64 Kb.) Please note that this is a revised version, updated 3/1/06
	The NDT's response to the Social Care Green Paper
	The Green Paper, Independence, Well-being and Choice, points social care in the right direction, but the NDT is less convinced that a confusion of 'bottom up' innovations is the way to get there.	Download "NDT response to the Green Paper" (PDF file, 56 Kb.)
	Learning from Experience
	The NDT played a leading role in a mapping exercise covering 380 projects providing day services for people with mental health issues. This paper summarises the ways in which the projects were aiming to promote social inclusion through innovative practice. The paper was originally published in Mental Health Today (May 2005) and is available here by kind permission of Pavilion Publishing.	Download "Learning from Experience" (PDF file, 104 Kb.)
	Volunteering and people with mental health issues
	A 'Network' column from the journal A life in the day (Volume 9, Issue 2, May 2005), also made available here with permission of Pavilion Publishing. Peter Bates discusses volunteering by people with mental health issues, particularly looking at the boundaries between 'user' and 'voluntary helper', and the support that people require.	Download Volunteering and people with mental health issues (PDF file, 212 Kb.)
	Part of the Workforce - report and booklet These two items were the result of an NDT research project in 2004, focused on Greater Manchester, to investigate the factors that helped to sustain people with learning disabilities in open employment.
	Booklet for employers An 8-page, A5 booklet, targeted at mainstream employers, which offers a positive message and some points of guidance. The booklet was designed for distribution as hard copy, but the Acrobat version is offered here for anyone who may find it useful. (NOTE: The NDT is not able to send individual copies of the booklet, but would welcome offers to help with bulk distribution in the Gtr. Manchester area.)	Download booklet for employers (PDF file, 168Kb.)
	Project report A short report on the project, outlining the methods, findings, and some of the issues raised.	Download "Part of the Workforce" (PDF file, 116 Kb.)
	Real Wages?
	In Soundtrack issue 27, we gave a summary of our current views on the payment of small payments in sheltered workshops and day centres. Download a full explanation here.	Download "Real Wages" (PDF file, 20 Kb.)
	A second paper addresses the related issue of payments for consultation.	Download "payments for consultation" (PDF file, 13 Kb.)
	Able Volunteers
	In the United Nations Year of Volunteering, the NDT and the Institute of Volunteering Research looked at the ways in which people with learning disabilities and people with mental health problems have become active volunteers in our communities. Volunteering has many faces it can be fun, monotonous, valued, exploitative, integrated or isolated and it takes many forms. This report introduces some of the findings from the European funded programme of work called Able Volunteers. The full report, A Real Asset, is now available from the NDT. Supported Volunteering was the focus of a special edition of the NDT Newsletter 'Soundtrack' in January 2002.	Download "Able Volunteers Programme"
	A Life in the Community
	The report was commissioned by the Kingwood Trust, working in conjunction with the Autism Research Unit at the University of Cambridge, the National Autistic Society and the National Development Team, and with the support of the Three Guineas Trust. A full copy of the report is available on the Kingwood Trust web site or a paper copy can be obtained (while stocks last) at no charge from the Trust (Tel. 01491 410450).	Download Main findings of "A Life in the Community" report
	A Life in the Day
	The concept of social inclusion has become shorthand for all kinds of desirable service outcomes, but what does it actually mean? Can it be deconstructed into component parts and measured? In this article Peter Bates and Julie Repper have made a start addressing these issues and are looking to carry forward the discussion through the Social Inclusion Research Network, featured in A Life in the Day Vol. 5, Issue 2, May 2001	Download "A Life in the Day"
	Supported Employment and Economic Security	Download "Supported Employment and Economic Security" (PDF file, 238 Kb)