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3 million; the Quality Protects programme would allocate £60 million a year for children with learning disabilities, a Direct Payment scheme would be established to increase the financial independence of people with learning disabilities; 1.3 million a year was to be committed to advocacy services for the learning disabled; and a further £750,000 over three years would be provided for the development of a national learning development centre and a helpline founded in partnership with Mancap.

The central purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the extent to which these funding innovations, as well as other more recent schemes such as ‘Payment by Results', have improved the lives and the integration into normal society of Britons with learning difficulties. To this end, the dissertation investigates the various funding schemes that run across those sectors providing services for people with learning difficulties: health, education, housing, employment, social services and so on; it will be another crucial duty of the present investigation to discover how efficiently and effectively these various streams are running together, and where future improvements might be located and effected. The dissertation will further analyze the different types of funding available for those with learning difficulties, the complexities of these, and here various successes and failures. The second major work of the investigation is to research and discuss the effect of these innovations upon people with learning disabilities; to test their sense of integration, to test in which places they still feel segregated and excluded from mainstream society, and to inquire as to which areas such service-users themselves believe ought to be further improved.

To this end, the present researcher set-up an extensive exploration of these issues by conducting interviews, and recording them in the form of questionnaires, with twenty people with learning disabilities. The results of these interviews show that the initiatives proposed by the white paper Valuing People and recently implemented by the present government have had a double-influence over the minds and experiences of people with learning disabilities. The results reveal a very clear distinction, drawn by those with learning disabilities, between the theoretical and rhetorical intentions of the government - these being noble, meritorious, idealistic and prejudice-free - and the practical and concrete achievements and improvements in funding engendered by the government.

The tale is thus, largely, one of promising rhetoric and bold intentions, but also deep failure to improve integration and erase segregation.

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