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© British Association of Social Workers

Community Based Care for People with a Mental Handicap: A Family Placement Scheme in County Durham

DAVID DAGNAN, lecturer and ROBERT DREWETT

Robert Drewett is a lecturer in the Department of Psychology, University of Durham

David Dagnan is a graduate student in the Department of Psychology, University of Durham

Correspondence to Dr R. F. Drewett, Department of Psychology, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE

Summary

In 1984 a family placement scheme for people with a mental handicap was started by Durham County Council Social Services Department. Thirteen were placed in ten families by the summer of 1988, when we interviewed all clients and carers in the scheme.

Responses to the scheme were generally positive, both from the carers and from the clients. All but two of the carers, however, had considerable previous professional experience with people with a mental handicap, and generalizations from the experience of this initial group of carers therefore need to be made with some caution.


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