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Services for People with Learning Disabilities provides a broad review of available services for people with learning disabilities. It describes the present network of services and explains the NHS and Community Care Act (1990) in terminoloy accessible to health care professionals and others engaged in this area. It looks in detail at the concepts underpinning new legislation, including care-management and assessment, quality and inspection, and inter-agency planning, and it supplies up-to-date information on current topics such as advocacy and empowerment, and recreation and leisure. An inval

Following the open government trend and based on its three principles - collaboration, transparency and participation; participation initiatives are been conducted by many governments around the world. Despite the wide range and variety of such initiatives, most of them face a common technical challenge - lack of technical tools to automatically summarize stakeholders' opinions and discussions. Addressing the challenge, this paper introduces a new concept on e-Participation research - Electronic Empowerment (E2) Participation, a new approach to automatically identify collective thinking patterns in e-Participation initiatives. The concept was coined as part of a multi-disciplinary research project aiming at integrating Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering techniques and tools with Electronic Governance models and principles to design innovative tools for e-Participation. Since our research work is at its early stages, the main contribution of this paper is introducing the E2 Participation concept and outlining a framework for its implementation. ; Peer Reviewed