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Jointly funded care package
- Author:
- EVERINGTON Shanta
- Journal article citation:
- Disability, Pregnancy and Parenthood International, 68, Spring 2010, pp.6-7.
- Publisher:
- National Centre for Disabled Parents
Charlotte Foulkes, a single parent with arthritis living in London, talks about her experience of social services needs assessments from both adult, and children and families teams. As a disabled parent with a one-year old daughter she has been assessed by both these teams but with mixed results. She describes the consultation process, the delays, the stress, manner and accuracy of some assessments and the way in which she was bounced between services. After being turned down for support by adult services, she contacted Disabled Parents Network and complained. Eventually, the adult team got the children and families team involved which provided a much better experience of assessment with the outcome of a jointly funded direct payment package. Charlotte’s advice to other disabled parents seeking support from social services is not to be afraid of making a complaint; in her case she believes it was the only way that things moved forward.
Learning difficulties: self advocacy
- Author:
- DILLON Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Disability, Pregnancy and Parenthood International, 69, Summer 2010, pp.4-5.
- Publisher:
- National Centre for Disabled Parents
In October 2007, parents with learning disabilities from Maidstone, Kent, came together for a two day conference to discuss their experiences, and how they could change things within services for the better. A follow-up conference in 2008 was help to decide what actions needed to be taken. The action group now meets weekly in the Voice4Kent offices to plan events and meet with professionals in the field of learning difficulties. Since the conferences, training has been carried out for midwives and care managers. This training has led to a group of parent trainers who offer a one day course to professionals and interested others. Training subjects include communication, working together, support, assessment, and general information about learning difficulties. The article briefly describes Voice4Kent’s involvement in strategy development, and it’s review of training presentations.
Involving parents is key to success
- Authors:
- MORRIS Jenny, WATES Michele
- Journal article citation:
- Disability, Pregnancy and Parenthood International, 60, Winter 2007, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- National Centre for Disabled Parents
'Working together to support disabled parents', published by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), addresses how to develop inter-agency protocols to support families in which parents have additional needs. This article provides an extract of the guidance, focusing on the importance of involving disabled parents when developing protocols and parent support services.