Paul Swift is Research Fellow at the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities. He has been involved in social policy research since 1985 working for various universities and for Somerset Social Services assisting in the re-provision of services for people with learning disabilities from the county’s long-stay hospitals.

Between 1994 and 1997 Paul worked at University of Bristol on a research project funded by the Department of Health to explore ways of involving service users in the evaluation of social work students.

From 1997 to 2000 Paul held an ESRC postgraduate studentship exploring the implications of care management for the professional identity of social workers.

His current work includes projects about individualised funding, social inclusion, partnership working between health and social services, fathers of children with learning disabilities and assessments under the Mental Capacity Act.

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