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How the tea is made; or, the scoping and scaling of 'everyday life' in changing services for 'people with learning disabilities'

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Helen Graham

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Abstract

In the late 20^th century the day services which had been set up for adults defined as having learning disabilities became understood as problematic because of the effects of segregation. The new solution became the adjustment of services in order to support a governmental form of personhood; a model of personhood defined by independence, the ability to make choices and be in control, to exercise rights and to take a place within the community and within society. This article tracks the technical changes to everyday life that underpinned this shift - specifically changes in tea making in Croydon’s day services since the late 1960s and techniques of person-centred planning via widely used policy and guidance documents. Through deploying the analytical lenses of ‘scope’ and ‘scale’, two questions are pursued: What is understood as legitimising a person with learning disabilities’ choice? On what scale does choice have to take place in order to be understood as realising ‘choice’ or ‘control’ as they are imagined in policy documents such as Valuing People?

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Author(s): Graham H

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: British Journal of Learning Disabilities

Year: 2010

Volume: 82

Issue: 2

Pages: 133-143

Print publication date: 13/05/2010

ISSN (print): 1354-4187

ISSN (electronic): 1468-3156

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-3156.2010.00637.x

DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-3156.2010.00637.x

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