It is recognised that the quality and closeness of personal relationships underlie a fulfilled life. However, services for people with learning disabilities often find this aspect of human life the most difficult to promote. Recently, befriending schemes have represented one initiative designed to fill the gap. This paper follows the progress of one pilot project and its outcomes for four participants with learning disabilities. It is concluded that caution should be exercised in any similar scheme, and that careful monitoring should ensure that new relationships are not being formed at the expense of prior, possibly less transient ones.
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