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Beyond the labels: a SEND system which works for every child, every time
- Author:
- CHILDREN'S COMMISSIONER FOR ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Children's Commissioner for England
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 37
- Place of publication:
- London
This paper outlines the key messages the office has heard from children and translates them into three over-arching ambitions: to ensure all children and young people get support that reflects their ambitions; to ensure that all children are getting timely and effective support, locally, with a focus on early intervention; to ensure that all children have consistent, excellent experiences wherever they are in the system. The Children's Commissioner is committed to ensuring that children's voices are at the heart of the Department for Education's (DfE) SEND Green Paper consultation. To inform this, the Children's Commissioner's Office (CCo) spoke with 55 children, and young people with additional needs across a range of education settings and analysed the consistency and accessibility of 650 Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs). In addition, as part of the office's attendance work, the team spoke to hundreds of children, teachers, and local authorities to understand why children with SEND are overrepresented in terms of low attendance at school. Four key messages emerged from the office's work: children are ambitious, but do not always have excellent support; the SEND system should work for all children; children want services to work together to provide seamless support; children don't always feel understood. These four core messages from children have been developed into three over-arching ambitions for the Government's SEND Green Paper. These are: ensure all children and young people get support that reflects their ambitions; ensure that all children are getting timely and effective support, locally, with a focus on early intervention; ensure that all children have consistent, excellent experiences wherever they are in the system. (Edited publisher abstract)
Required to be creative. Everyday ways for dealing with inaccessibility
- Author:
- WASTERFORS David
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 36(2), 2021, pp.265-285.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Today’s society promises that people with disabilities can access anything, but in practice there are numerous obstacles, and the ways in which people deal with them can be easily missed or taken for granted by policy makers. This article draws on a project in which researchers ‘go along’ people with disabilities in Sweden who demonstrate and recount accessibility troubles in urban and digital settings. They display a set of mundane methods for managing inaccessibility: (a) using others, (b) making deals and establishing routines, (c) mimicking or piggybacking conventions, (d) debunking others’ accounts and performing local politics. The employment of these shared but tailored methods shows the difficulties to be accepted that people with disabilities still face, as well as the wide-ranging tension that exists between the grand rhetoric of inclusion and modest results. The tension implies that people with disabilities are required to be creative. (Edited publisher abstract)
Addressing barriers to work for disabled people and those with long term health conditions in Brighton & Hove: research report
- Authors:
- BENNETT Lauren, RAY Kathryn, WILSON Tony
- Publisher:
- Learning and Work Institute
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 65
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
A research study into the barriers to employment, volunteering and skills development for disabled people and individuals with long term health conditions in Brighton & Hove. The research comprised a scoping stage, stakeholder research and consultation workshops. Key themes covered in the report include: experiences of employment support – those further from work wanted more intensive and personalised employment support, including help to prepare for work, look for work and to apply for jobs and disabled people’s experiences of support often reflected the quality of their relationship with the adviser or staff who supported them; provision of support in Brighton & Hove – there is a range of provision available in Brighton & Hove, but a lack of awareness of such provision amongst employees and local residents; experiences of employment – some employers held misconceptions about disabled people and individuals with health conditions, including the automatic assumption that disabled employees would have a physical impairment and therefore be unsuitable for certain roles; support for employers – when employers received appropriate support, this was often key to their decision and ability to hire a disabled person. However, there was a lack of awareness of wider local and national support services amongst employers and employees. (Edited publisher abstract)
Top tips for including BME disabled people
- Author:
- EQUALITIES NATIONAL COUNCIL
- Publisher:
- Equalities National Council
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 2p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A list of 12 tips to help services promote and enable equal access to personalisation services for black and minority ethnic disabled people.
Access to health care for disabled people: a systematic review
- Authors:
- GIBSON Jeremy C., O'CONNOR Rory J.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Care and Neurodisability, 1(3), 2010, pp.21-31.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
... that many of the identified studies centred on subjective opinions rather than objective assessments. They assert that more objective evidence is needed, especially in the UK, to clarify the true level of access to health care in people with disabilities.
Health and care services for disabled people: how are we doing?: easy read
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 37p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This document is for those who own or attend primary care health services such as GP or dentistry surgeries, community clinics, walk-in centres, out-of-hours services, pharmacies or specialists such as podiatrists. It can help you to understand the duties under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA) and what action you can take to meet the needs of your disabled service users.
Disability policy: help or hindrance?
- Author:
- MALACRIDA Claudia
- Journal article citation:
- Disability, Pregnancy and Parenthood International, Autumn 2008, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- National Centre for Disabled Parents
The author reports on the findings of Canadian research which interviewed mothers with disabilities about their triumphs and challenges. The barriers the faced in finding out about and accessing services are highlighted.
Parents' experiences in seeking child care for school age children with disabilities - where does the system break down
- Authors:
- JINNAH Hamida Amirali, STONEMAN Zolinda
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Youth Services Review, 30(8), August 2008, pp.967-977.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
The purpose of this study was to examine the process through which families of school age children with disabilities seek care and to identify the points in the process where the system fails families. Using a qualitative approach, the authors track the pathways that families follow in their quest to secure care. Focus groups and phone interviews were conducted with 37 parents in the United
Access-ability: making technology more usable by people with disabilities
- Author:
- GILL John
- Publisher:
- Royal National Institute for the Blind
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 36p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This publication provides an overview of guidelines that are now available on the Internet to help designers, engineers and technicians solve the problems of making the technology in our everyday lives accessible and easier to use by elderly people and people with disabilities. It is the experience of many who are neither elderly or disabled, that the technology in our everyday lives is both complex and difficult to deal with. From video recorder and television controls to mobile phones, ticket selling machines, screen interfaces and e-mail systems. Almost nothing is simple. Most devices are complicated and off-putting. People with disabilities, such as low vision or poor manual dexterity, have long had to deal with devices that have not been designed with their needs in mind. There is now
There and back 2006: a travel guide for disabled people
- Editors:
- STANFORD John, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- RADAR Promotions
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 120p.
- Place of publication:
- London
There and Back is RADAR's 2006 guide for disabled people, which gives information on non-local travel. It pays particular attention to the links between the different methods of transport, whether by air, rail, road or sea. Whilst in the UK and in most countries we are still far from having an integrated and accessible transport system, there have been significant improvements over the last 5 years or so. The aim of There and Back is to highlight transport options that may now be available to disabled people and help as many people as possible plan their travel.