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Volume 13, Issue 3
1 October 2008
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Review Article| October 01 2008

Learning disability policy in the UK Available to Purchase

Simon Whitehead;
Simon Whitehead
Learning Disabilities, England
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Lisa Curtice;
Lisa Curtice
Scottish Consortium for Learning Disability
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Stephen Beyer;
Stephen Beyer
Welsh Centre for Learning Disabilities
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Roy McConkey;
Roy McConkey
Learning Disability, University of Ulster
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Siobhan Bogues
Siobhan Bogues
Association for Real Change (NI), Equal Lives Committee
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2042-8782
Print ISSN: 1359-5474
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2008
Tizard Learning Disability Review (2008) 13 (3): 4–11.
https://doi.org/10.1108/13595474200800022

This article provides separate, but linked, overviews of learning disability policy in the four countries of the UK, commenting on current policy and its links to the wider policy agenda, delivery strategies and challenges for the future. The authors are each responsible for the element relating to their country.

Keywords:
Learning disability policy, Employment, Health, Outcomes, Mainstreaming, Local government
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