Disability Practice [electronic resource] : Safeguarding Quality Service Delivery / edited by Christine Bigby, Alan Hough.

1: Thinking about disability – implications for practice -- 2: Building strong foundations: Listening to and learning from people with intellectual disabilities and their families -- 3: Supporting community participation and life-long learning -- 4: The importance of economic participation for quality of life -- 5: Relationship-based practice with people with mild intellectual disabilities who have been socially marginalised and excluded -- 6: Supporting engagement in everyday life at home and in the community: Active Support -- 7: Healthy lifestyles and primary health care -- 8: Support for people with complex and challenging behaviour -- 9: Support planning with people with disabilities -- 10: The right to participate in decision making: Supported decision making in practice -- 11: ‘Nothing about us without us.’ Including lived experiences of people with intellectual disabilities in policy and service design -- 12: Organisational culture in disability accommodation services -- 13: Building quality and safeguarding into disability service provision.

Open Access

This open access book critically engages with the social, political and ethical implications of support for people with disability to be fully included in society. The authors examine contemporary issues of quality and safeguarding in disability services, translating research and practice wisdom into foundational knowledge. Written by leading researchers, the book provides a comprehensive overview of knowledge and practice necessary to prepare readers to deliver enabling support. .