What is it about?
In the interwar period local authorities developed services in response to the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. This case study explores an area where there seemed little enthusiasm for the care and control measures adopted elsewhere.
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Why is it important?
Learning disability services are currently in the news as there is pressure to reconfigure services in an age of austerity. Understanding the dark past is an important way of making sure that service users and their families are at the heart of future provision and have their real rather than assumed needs met.
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Pamela Dale is a member of the Social History of Learning Disability Group which promotes a respectful and inclusive history of learning disability services.
Dr Pamela Louise Dale
University of Exeter
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This page is a summary of: A Halifax case study that offers an alternative history of care provided by local authorities under the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act, British Journal of Learning Disabilities, January 2013, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/bld.12021.
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