Christine Bigby is Director of the Living with Disability Research Centre at La Trobe University, Australia. Professor Bigby has a national and international reputation for her research on the social inclusion of adults with intellectual disability.

Alan Hough, PhD, combines academic experience with extensive practical knowledge of quality and safeguarding in disability service provision. Alan's expertise lies in what real-world challenges care organisations face while improving their practice.

1: Thinking about disability - implications for practice.- 2: Building strong foundations: Listening to and learning from people with intellectual disabilities and their families.- 3: Supporting community participation and life-long learning.- 4: The importance of economic participation for quality of life.- 5: Relationship-based practice with people with mild intellectual disabilities who have been socially marginalised and excluded.- 6: Supporting engagement in everyday life at home and in the community: Active Support.- 7: Healthy lifestyles and primary health care.- 8: Support for people with complex and challenging behaviour.- 9: Support planning with people with disabilities.- 10: The right to participate in decision making: Supported decision making in practice.- 11: 'Nothing about us without us.' Including lived experiences of people with intellectual disabilities in policy and service design.- 12: Organisational culture in disability accommodation services.- 13: Building quality and safeguarding into disability service provision.