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The purpose of this paper is to provide a UK perspective on the article by Mason et al. on Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).

A commentary on the main article, drawing on the author’s knowledge and experience of the implementation of personalisation in the UK and information gleaned during a recent visit to Australia.

There is a major risk that the implementation of NDIS will repeat some of the failings of personalisation in the UK. Specifically, the failures of public bodies to invest in supporting people to take effective control over the resources available to them, and to instigate action to manage the emerging market in ways that promote innovative community options, risk the forces of the free market economy undermining disabled people’s ability to make maximum use of any new choice and control open to them.

This is a personal perspective, backed by experience, on a current policy development that is of international interest.

This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/13595474200500007. When citing the article, please cite: Rob Greig, (2005), “Valuing People, Not Institutions”, Tizard Learning Disability Review, Vol. 10 Iss: 1, pp. 30 - 35.

This case study considers the current state of knowledge about developing effective, high quality services for people with learning disabilities, with particular emphasis on ‘social care’ provision. It questions why services across much of the country fail to respond to the lessons from research and evaluation which, combined with a greater emphasis on partnership between all stakeholders in services, could result in substantially improved outcomes for service users.

Eric Emerson's recently published research on the costs and quality of village, residential communities and supported housing should bring to an end an argument that has bedevilled learning disability services for a number of years. The most important questions raised by the research are arguably those that lie beneath the surface of the village community vs. ordinary life debate ‐ and also have an importance well beyond the learning disability field.

In this article the author, who acted as an advisor to the Department of Health on the creation of the recent Learning Disability White Paper, gives his personal views on the challenges of implementation