The relevance of the Jay Report to the advocacy
training of learning disability nurses was proved
in this research. Fifty percent of nurse respondents
had not had, or could not remember receiving
any formal education in advocacy and the
percentage was even higher in those who qualified
prior to 1985. The largest percentage of nurses
who had received advocacy education were those
whose training under the ‘1982’ syllabus was directly
influenced by the ‘social work model of
community care’ recommended by Jay (