NDT publications

	A Real Asset - A Manual on Supported Volunteering Peter Bates About developing supported volunteering opportunities. Some people with learning disabilities or mental health problems want to contribute to the wider community as volunteers. The book explains - how these dreams can be achieved; the role of the person and their friends, health and social care staff, volunteer bureaux and volunteer-involving organisations. The book is about listening carefully to what people want and ensuring that people who need support get a fair chance. It shows how the whole community is enriched when people volunteer their time and talents. price£9.00
	Selecting Personal Care Assistance: What you need to Know Lyn Rucker & Gary Nield A step by step guide to organising your own Personal Care Assistance. The book coves essential information such as funding, recruitment and interviewing strategies. Gives vital up to date information on Direct Payments, the Independent Living Fund and how to ensure that o are keeping within the law as an employer . The book includes forms and questionnaires that will help to guide you through the interviewing process and help to ensure that you are keeping within the law as an employer. The book includes forms and questionnaires that will help to guide you through the interviewing process and help to maximise your success rate for finding Personal Care Assistance that is tailored to your needs. price £12.50
	Becoming A Personal Assistant: What You Need to Know Lynn Rucker, Gary Nield & Luke Travis Step by step guide to Personal Assistance. The book will help you to consider all aspects of this type of work, including the kind of qualities you need to have and the level of commitment you need to make. Explains factual information, such as salary levels and employment issues, as well as offering personal insights of the rewards of the job from people who have worked as Personal Assistants. It is essential reading for anyone considering helping to enable someone with a disability to live independently. price £10.00
	Personal Care Assistance pack - the above 2 books as a pack price £20.00
	Taking a Break Liverpool's Respite Services for adult citizens with learning disabilities. Margaret Flynn with Liverpool Self-advocates. An insight into Liverpool's Respite Services for adult citizens with learning disabilities. Reviewing aims and methods. Rationale for Respite. Liverpool's approach. Getting Respite Services. Personal accounts of what Respite was like. The views of Parents. The Service Personnel perspective. Conclusions and recommendations for the future. Development Plan. price £10.00
	We Miss Her When She Goes Away Respite services for children with learning disabilities and additional health needs. Platts H, Hughes J, Lenehen C, Morris S, Flynn M. The booklet considers the lives of children with learning disabilities with additional health care needs, and the respite or short-term care services available to them. Based on a project carried out by the NDT, funded by the Dept of Health. Provides service planers, purchasers, providers and the parents of children with learning disabilities and additional health care needs, with ideas for improving respite in three localities, the booklet identifies the service elements most valued by children and their families eg importance of love, attention, friends and play; close lasting relationships with adults and other children; instilling confidence. price £12.50
	Supported Living - A New Paradigm? Peter Kinsella Explores real-life stories of people receiving supported living services. price £8.00
	A Foot In The Door Report funded by The Joseph Rowntree Foundation which reviews the development of Supported Living services in the UK. Ken Simons. This book discusses issues of housing, considerations in the design and delivery of supports, ways to thinking about the design and management of service organisation, enumeration of the strategic considerations for purchasing housing and supports, and approaches to safeguards for peopleÚs rights and dignity. It clearly states and thoughtfully and critically discuses principles and the barriers and difficulties in their application. Provides brief but helpful illustrations of ways people have sometimes resolved problems. Faces the demands of compromises of principle and offers some guidance for negotiating such compromises. price £15.00
	Supported Employment Quality Assurance (SEQA) Anne O'Bryan and John O'Brien. How is SEQA used; Who are effective reviewers; How to use SEQA in your own organisation; Job development; Providing Training, Support and Individual Advocacy; Supported Employment Services Management price £10.00
	Real Jobs Series Survey of Supported Employment Services in England, Wales and Scotland. Tim Lister As part of the Real Jobs Initiative, the NDT commissioned TSI to create a national database of supported employment schemes, to help establish just where the current situation is in relation to supported employment opportunities. This report is the result of this piece of work. price £7.00
	Real Jobs Pack These three publications are available as a set, price £15.00
	Normal Lives? The Financial Circumstances of People with Learning Disabilities Ann Davies, Jean Murray and Margaret Flynn. Reveals the considerable financial hardship for the many adults with learning disabilities. An exploration focuses on individual income and patterns of expenditure. Research highlighting the social, emotional, physical, earnings and opportunity costs which surround familial caring tasks have accumulated a creditable body of experience and evidence. price £9.00
	This Year, Next Year, Sometime..? Learning Disability and Adulthood Margaret Flynn and Michael Hirst. Report presents findings of survey of 79 teenagers and young adults with learning disabilities. Information about their friends and social life, personal autonomy and support including contact with social workers and their aspirations in respect of working, living arrangements and intimate relationships gathered by personal interview. The lives of many young people shows how they were circumscribed and largely characterised by their segregation from non-disabled people. The study also demonstrates that the aspirations, values, wants and pleasures of young people with learning disabilities fall within the large range of desires common to most of us. price £6.00
	Deep Trouble! Adults with learning difficulties who offend. Margaret Flynn & Jennifer Bernard, CCETSW A report on the findings of offenders with learning disabilities. Real life stories. Early life. Being arrested. The experience of going to court. Being in Prison. Being in a medium secure unit. Being in a high security Psychiatric hospital. Alternatives to custody. Thinking it through and taking action. Information about the project. price £19.50