Craig Harts
Presentation
What can we learn from history
to help avoid more scandals and
abuse?
• We can get people with Learning
Difficulties more involved to understand
what history is about but one example is
about Central People First history
project over 21 years.
• If we can then other people can do the
same thing, we can encourage them to
do this.
What has enabled people, including those
with severe and profound difficulties and
challenging behaviour to stay local?
• How you tackle a person with
learning difficulties, have a
behaviour problem, Self-Advocacy
organisations can help them get
them treated with respect.
What roles do families and allies playadvocates, friends, relatives- in making sure
care remains good?
• Their experience they have had is
important and what a person offers as
an advocate to help support people with
Learning Difficulties, to see if it
matches their Needs.
What is the role of Advocacy, SelfAdvocacy and circles of support?
• It is important to look at what good
experiences and what bad experiences a
person has had within a person’s circle,
as this helps to do an action plan.
How far have changes in policy and
regulatory regimes made a
difference?
• Need to make sure to get people
involved with this and need to think
about the content to help them and it is
also about how you make it happen and
how you stick too them. If you want to
make changes to these you need to work
as a team to make these decisions.
The Contribution of Learning Disability
professions such as psychiatrists, nursing
and social work?
• One idea we have is that you have to be
honest to make things happen, if not things
will go back to square one. Things need to
go forwards instead of back words.
• It is important to learn to respect in about
how you work around a person and how you
share information. We can give this
information to other people so they can
learn from this and learn to respect
people.