Conference 2004

Work in the lives of people with learning disabilities: 'A millstone or a milestone?'

13th July 2004 at The Open University, Milton Keynes

(Please note: there are no abstracts or presentations available for this 2004 conference. However, we hope that the list of presentation titles below will give a flavour of the day's talks.)

Morning session

• Introduction and framework paper
  Sheena Rolph
• Getting a life! Employment and the status of work in the lives of women with learning difficulties
  Deborah Phillips
• Always worked - but never employed!
  Marjorie Chappell
• Trained labourers available for free - Workers with learning difficulties
  Milton Keynes People First

PANEL

• (paper 1) 'Supervision, training, occupation, protection and control': compulsory work in certified institutions - the experiences of people with learning difficulties
  Bob Hayes
• (paper 2) Working and waiting: the unrealised opportunities of an employment-oriented community care scheme before 1948
  Pamela Dale

Afternoon session

• Work in the lives of peole with learning difficulties
  React
• The heyday of work-oriented day services: the history of the Oxford Industrial Training Unit, 1964-1980
  Paul Williams
• What works was like in the past
  People First Bootle
• What working means to me
  Lloyd Page

Poster displays:

1. Employment experiences of a person with the label of 'learning difficulties' in Vollbury
   Ghasem Norouzi
2. Changing attitudes on work at Normansfield
   Heather Cadbury
3. Gone for a Burton: the day centre with a difference? (This display includes a short video.)
   Darren Lee and Alex McClimens
4. Welfare to Work schemes
   Helen Hewitt