Frances Brown

People with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour are too often place in institutions and care homes far from home. These placements are often unnecessary, harmful and continue far longer than they should. People and families also do not get the chance to plan their own departure and organise good support back home in their own community. This practical guide is based on decades of experience in successfully supporting people to move home and to build flourishing lives with family, friends, neighbours and colleagues. It is a travel guide that demonstrates tried and trusted methods for navigating the difficult road home. The guide includes: Principles and values to guide you on your journey back homeQuestions and processes necessary to develop a good planSystems and entitlements that you can usePractical work required and examples of successHow to stay safe and well when you are in your own homeThis guide is useful for people with learning difficulties, their families and professional or community allies who are supporting people on their journey home.

Frances Brown shows us how to cook Scottish dishes using honey. The recipes have been collected over the years and formulated using honey from her daughter Enid's apiary in Fife. This is a companion book to "Traditional Welsh Honey Recipes" by Jane Jones published in 2003.

Extract from the Foreword: The use of an Individual Service Fund as a way that people can have more control, choice and flexibility in their support is not a new idea. In Scotland, Individual Service Funds have been used by a small number of organisations for more than 20 years as a way to enable people to take more control over their life and their support, even if they were not deemed to have the capacity to take a Direct Payment. The authors of this paper have a long standing commitment to this approach and can describe clearly how an Individual Service Fund works and why it makes Self-Directed Support available for everyone. This paper was commissioned by In Control Scotland with the aim of promoting inclusion and social justice through greater understanding of the benefits of the creative use of Individual Service Funds It is intended to be an enabling document which will be of value to individuals, families, care providers and funders It is intended to inspire greater consideration of the untapped transformational potential of Individual Service Funds by providing lived examples It also takes the form of a provocation, intended to stimulate questions and conversations about where power, choice and control lie in any situation involving an individual budget.

The concept of welfare is a somewhat neglected area within tourism studies, despite the continued growth of interest in key issues such as ethics, tourist safety, employee's well-being, human rights, ethnocentrism, cultural sensitivity and behaviour codes, green consumerism, and the perceptions of management of 'sustainability'. This book provides an explanation, definition and a critique of welfare and a welfare approach covering these issues. Chapters cover the welfare of tourists, employees in the tourism industry, residents in tourism destinations, animals as tourist attractions and the natural environment.

Tourism Reassessed: Blight or blessing? provides a balanced assessment of the effects of tourism on 20th century life and evaluates its significance in international relations. Inspired by Sir George Young's book, Tourism: Blessing or blight?, published 25 years ago, this book places tourism firmly within its wider context. Tourism Reassessed sees tourism as: · A factor of international relations · A facet of the global economic order It takes a new approach by examining the place of tourism in the global political economy, analysing both how far it is shaped by the political-economic system and its own role in shaping that system. Tourism Reassessed is ideal for educators and researchers in tourism and all those studying or interested in the subject. Policy makers in governments and international and national organizations in tourism and related fields will find this essential reading.

Presenting the major issues faced and generated by tourism, this text examines the place of tourism in the global political economy. It analyzes how far tourism is shaped by the political-economic system and its own role in shaping that system.