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They have to be special
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.1.04, 2004, p.36.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Earlier this year Amaze, a Brighton based voluntary organisation, brought together a group of parents whose children are at residential special schools to write an information booklet on choosing a school. Looks at what parents want.
Schools morass
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.4.02, 2002, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at the placement of disabled children in residential schools and why it brings into question the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Still missing: volume 2; disabled children and the Children Act
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- Who Cares Trust
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 121p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report looking in detail at how three local authorities are implementing the Children Act 1989 as it applies to disabled children, and attempts to answer some of the policy and practice implications of the experiences recorded in volume one, which presented the views of thirty disabled people who spent most of their childhood away from home.
Still missing: volume 1; the experience of disabled children and young people living away from home
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- Who Cares Trust
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 57p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Presents the experiences of thirty disabled people who spent most of their childhood away from their families. A companion volume examines policy and practice implications of the experiences recorded here and looks in detail at how three local authorities are attempting to meet the needs of disabled children.
Growing pains
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.7.95, 1995, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
For many disabled young people who have spent most of their lives in residential care, leaving just means moving into adult residential homes. Asks what should be done.
At arm's length
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.7.95, 1995, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Many children with disabilities are often in care in the sense that they spend a lot of time in institutions but, sometimes, they are not formally in care because their local authority has not taken over parental responsibility for them. Asks if there are any support systems which would enable disabled children to experience family life.
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.
No home from home
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.7.93, 1993, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Disabled young people often have difficulty in creating an independent life away from their parents and residential care can seem to be their only option. Shows how the experience can often be bitter and demeaning; and a difficult situation to move away from, even when residential establishments support people's wishes to live independently. Concludes that a better understanding of what it is like in residential care is needed particularly in the light of government plans to consign people to such care if their personal assistance costs are more than five hundred pounds a week.
Independent lives?: community care and disabled people
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 199p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Draws on in-depth interviews with disabled people to explore the experience of receiving help with daily living activities. Covers: the development of community care policies and their application to disabled people; the ideas of the independent living movement; the debate on informal care; the experience of residential care, of being dependent on a partner or relatives for assistance and the experience of statutory services. Calls for policy-makers and professionals to recognise the civil and human rights of disabled people.
The decision to go: disabled children at residential schools and the role of social services departments
- Authors:
- ABBOTT David, MORRIS Jenny, WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 14(1), 2002, pp.5-16.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Sending a disabled child to a specialist residential school may mean that live for much of the year at a school a long way from home. This article explores the views of social services staff on residential schools and the issues the face around how best to work with families who are thinking about a residential school for their child.