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Independent living strategy: a review of progress
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publishers:
- In Control, Disability Rights UK
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 25
- Place of publication:
- Wythall
This report summarises the findings of a review of evidence about the impact of the 2008 Independent Living Strategy and seeks to measure progress against some of the most important specific aims of the strategy. The review found that there is no evidence of significant progress in disabled people’s experiences of choice and control in their lives since 2008. Personal budgets for social care tend to improve outcomes but there is evidence that inadequate funding and restrictions on how personal budgets/direct payments may be used can inhibit choice and control. Disabled people who need support in their daily lives and older people are experiencing diminishing opportunities to participate in family and community life. People with high levels of support needs are at increasing risk of institutionalisation while access to mental health services is becoming more difficult. There have been significant reductions in advice and advocacy services, particularly those funded by legal aid. There is no evidence that current policies to support disabled people into work are improving employment opportunities and large numbers of disabled people have experienced a reduction in their household income since 2010. Disabled people are experiencing a reduction in housing opportunities and an increasing number are living in accommodation which is not suited to their needs and there have been significant reductions in expenditure on important programmes intended to increase transport opportunities. (Edited publisher abstract)
Mind and body together
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 30.09.04, 2004, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on the findings of a research which looked at the support needs of people with physical impairments who also have mental health and their experiences of both types of services. The study was carried out by Jenny Morris in partnership with Mind for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The research found that people experienced significant barriers to getting their needs met
Where to now?
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 26.9.96, 1996, p.25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author argues that community care assessments are a crucial element in working towards a society where disabled people can participate and have full human rights.
Gone missing: a research and policy review of disabled children living away from their families
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- Who Cares Trust
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 106p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report looking at the experiences of children and young people with disabilities who spend most or all of their childhood away from their families in some form of residential provision. Contains 10 life stories of adults who lived away from home as children.
'Us' and 'them'? Feminist research, community care and disability
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 33, Winter 1991, pp.22-39.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Feminist research on community care is concerned with women's position in the family. Such research has failed to take on the reality and the interests of those groups of people who receive 'care'. This had led some feminists to conclude that non-sexist forms of community care are impossible and to advocate new forms of institutional care as an alternative. Disabled people experience such research as oppressive and alienating. Research which incorporated the subjective reality of disabled people would ask different questions but, although rejecting institutional care, would still support feminism's rejection of the way that 'community care' too often means 'family care'.
Minimum income for healthy living: older people
- Authors:
- MORRIS Jenny, et al
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 58p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Research by the London School of tropical Hygiene and Medicine found people over 65 are not spending enough money each week on food and have worryingly low levels of exercise. It concluded pensioner poverty is leaving people at risk of falls, heart disease and is destroying their independence. Only 17% of people over 60 said they keep fit and up to 30% of 65-74 year-old men and women of the same age are obese. The report identified diet and nutrition, physical activity, housing, health care and social life as the vital elements needed for older people’s well-being. It calculated the weekly cost meeting these is £32.20 a week. Inadequate income clearly has a major impact on the health of the nation’s people in later life, but urgent action to tackle barriers, such as poor health awareness and access to health and leisure facilities, is also needed. The report called on local authorities to provide accessible and affordable leisure activities close to where older people live and to involve older people in planning new services to ensure their health needs are taken into account.
A study describing mothers' opinions of the crying behaviour of infants under one year of age
- Authors:
- NASH Chris, MORRIS Jenny, GOODMAN Benny
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse Review, 17(3), May 2008, pp.191-200.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The focus of this study arose from a literature review related to the part infant crying may play in shaken baby syndrome. A common finding of studies exploring the mechanism and management of infant crying is that, despite the difficulties in agreeing a definition for excessive crying, there is no doubt that parents find prolonged crying episodes challenging. This may lead to interaction problems and abuse. The aim of the study was to describe mothers' opinions of the crying behaviour of infants under one year to establish some baseline information that could be used in the design of preventative programmes and parent education. Some themes and directions for further research are suggested. Evidence on how parents cope and findings regarding parental perceptions about why infants cry could be valuable in prevention and parenting programmes. Other findings were that mothers feel guilty when unable to console a crying infant, that they perceive that fathers would respond by passing the baby to a female carer, that they think infants cry to gain attention and as a reaction to parental stress, and that tiredness influenced their ability to cope. There are indications that many parents believe boys can withstand rougher handling, an area which therefore requires more investigation.
The best place to be? Residential school placements for disabled children
- Authors:
- ABBOTT David, WARD Linda, MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Children Now, 13, Summer 2002, pp.7-8.
- Publisher:
- Haymarket
Reports on recent research from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation which examined residential school placements for disabled children. Focuses on the experiences of the children, parents attitudes, and whether placements are monitored by local authorities.
Working together to support disabled parents
- Authors:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, MORRIS Jenny, WATES Michelle
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 79p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide is to support children’s and adults’ services in working together to develop joint protocols. It shows how to develop inter-agency protocols to support families in which parents have additional needs related to physical and/or sensory impairments, learning disabilities, mental health, drug and alcohol-related problems or serious illnesses. Protocols enable agencies to: agree on a common set of core principles; establish clarity about the respective roles and responsibilities of relevant agencies; agree and jointly own procedures for all stages of the relationship between families and agencies from referrals to assessments, to information-sharing, to planning, to service provision, to funding and to review; and ensure a joined-up approach to families’ needs through the commissioning process. The guide includes information on involving parents and case examples. [Previously published as SCIE Resource Guide no. 9].