Abstract
During the last decades, people with intellectual disabilities have moved to regular neighbourhoods and policies have incorporated goals related to social inclusion. However, people with intellectu...
Highlights
Over the last decades social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities has become an important goal of policy makers
We investigated the role of group home staff members, on the assumption that neighbourhood social inclusion cannot be considered a standard element of their professional role identity
Our study showed that individual perceptions of a professional role identity primarily focused on care tasks, and the experienced support from service providers hinders staff in creating opportunities for social inclusion in the neighbourhood
Summary
Over the last decades social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities has become an important goal of policy makers. People with intellectual disabilities were placed in large institutions, often separated from society (Schuurman, 2002) These institutions aimed to provide a safe and secure environment which was not ensured in society (Mans, 1998). As in many other Western countries, the large institutions were closed, and care provision increasingly became organized through small-scale group homes situated in regular neighbourhoods (Beadle Brown, Mansell, & Kozma, 2007; Nieboer, Pijpers, & Strating, 2011). These group homes house people with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities who receive 24-h residential care
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