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Supported internships: factsheet
- Author:
- PREPARING FOR ADULTHOOD
- Publisher:
- Preparing for Adulthood
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- Bath
A supported internship is a programme of study based primarily at an employer’s premises. They are designed to better enable young disabled people to achieve sustainable paid employment by equipping them with the skills they need for the workplace. For the young person, the internship should contribute to their long-term career goals and fit with their working capabilities. For the employer, the internship must meet a real business need; with the potential of a paid job at the end of the programme of study should the intern meet the required standard. This factsheet explains what a supported internship is, the policy surrounding them, and how to set one up. It includes some cases examples of supported internships provided by Employment Works, a supported internship project in Surrey in partnership with 4 colleges, local employers, and specialist employment service EmployAbility.
Employment: what we have learned
- Author:
- SPENCER Charlotte
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 16(2), April 2011, pp.33-38.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
It is clear from many UK and international examples that people with learning disabilities can secure and retain jobs that employers value. With the right support, this applies to people with severe impairments as well as those with milder disabilities. This article summarises work done under Valuing People Now to improve employment prospects and outcomes for people with learning disabilities in England. It summarises the barriers to improvements, such as the benefit system, employer prejudice, and families’ low aspirations. It explains how understanding these barriers has helped to unlock solutions and new approaches. The Valuing People Employment Team has been attempting to tackle the barriers through: the Getting A Life demonstration sites; Project Search internships; the Jobs First project; and campaigns and training to increase work aspirations and expectations. Case examples demonstrate the use of these initiatives.
Mental health issues
- Author:
- BURKE Tim
- Journal article citation:
- Young People Now, 1.11.06, 2006, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Haymarket Professional Publications Ltd
Every region in England is expected to have a comprehensive mental health service for young people in place by the end of the December. The author reports on progress to date, and finds some areas are still lagging behind. The article also highlights good practice in Swansea, in the Storm project.
Assistive technology as a means of supporting people with dementia: a review
- Authors:
- BONNER Steve, IDRIS Tahir
- Publisher:
- Housing Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 18p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Awareness of Assistive Technology (AT) products, devices and solutions available is still sketchy and variable around the UK. There is almost a ‘postcode lottery’ relating to the quality of AT solutions available to people with dementia due to the varying approaches taken around the country. This paper reviews the current policy and practice in relation to AT supporting people to live well with dementia, including different housing settings and rounding off with some good practice case studies which highlight the wide array of technology solutions available. Included in this review are: a brief summary of different types of AT; a review of policy initiatives, including legislation, which have attempted to encourage the greater use of AT; ethical considerations; current practice by major housing providers; good practice examples; and people with dementia’s experience.
Government, professional and public efforts in Japan to change the designation of dementia (chihō)
- Authors:
- MIYAMOTO Misa, GEORGE Daniel R., WHITEHOUSE Peter J.
- Journal article citation:
- Dementia: the International Journal of Social Research and Practice, 10(4), November 2011, pp.475-486.
- Publisher:
- Sage
In 2004, the label for dementia was officially changed in Japan. This move was part of a publicity campaign to raise public awareness about dementia and replace the previously stigmatising word ‘chihō’, which translates as a ‘disease of cognition associated with idiocy’. The aim of this study was to examine the name-changing process and to explore its implications for Japan and the field of dementia studies in general. The authors begin by explaining the process through which the new name for ‘dementia’, ‘ninchishō’ (cognitive syndrome), was selected and why. It then looks at the role of the Alzheimer’s Association Japan (AAJ) and the influence of this organisation on the name-changing process. The final part of the article describes the educational initiative developed in response to the name-change decision and evaluates the initial impact of the project. The authors conclude that the whole process proceeded relatively quickly and efficiently. They believe that the multi-faceted public education drive played a prominent role in the name changing process. One year after the decision to change almost 80% of those surveyed recognised ninchishō as the new name for dementia.
Joint strategic needs assessment and housing: report of a study on the South East region
- Author:
- EDWARDS Margaret
- Publisher:
- DH Care Networks. Housing Learning and Improvement Network
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 22p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Based on a study of documents produced in the South East region as part of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) process, this report examines the extent to which housing needs are covered within the JSNAs produced during 2008. A JSNA is a process that “identifies current and future health and wellbeing needs in the light of existing services and informs future service planning”. The 2008 assessments included information about housing tenure, overcrowding, heating, unfit housing and homeless people, and in several cases these aspects were cross-referenced to age, geographical; location, ethnicity and deprivation.
Explaining and understanding state intervention into the lives of ‘Troubled’ Families
- Author:
- PARR Sadie
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Society, 16(4), 2017, pp.577-592.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This article focuses attention on explaining and understanding state intervention into the lives of families deemed ‘troublesome’ with specific attention on the Troubled Families Programme. Launched in 2011, in part as a response to the London riots, the Troubled Families Programme represented an escalation and intensification of state intervention into the lives of families. Policy analyses have provided important perspectives on how we should explain and understand this government agenda as part of a process of neoliberal state crafting. This article offers a critical yet productive examination of these perspectives, arguing that their utility lies in how they can be employed, and therefore modified and adapted, in conjunction with studies of local practice which emphasise the messy realities of policy enactment and, with that, the possibility for contestation and challenge. Such an approach, based broadly on the tenets of critical realism, is founded on an alternative conception of state power, one that sees state power as having a more complex quality that is dependent on the agency of local actors. (Publisher abstract)
Public health transformation twenty months on: adding value to tackle local health needs
- Author:
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
- Publisher:
- Local Government Association
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 46
- Place of publication:
- London
This compilation of case studies shows how local authorities are continuing to make progress on improving health and wellbeing and tackling health inequalities since public health was formally transferred in April 2013. It illustrates a range of ways in which public health in councils is approaching its new roles. The case studies include councils spread across England, covering both rural and urban environments and with varying levels of deprivation and affluence. Key themes emerging from the case studies include: organisational structure; councils' regulatory and planning functions; commissioning and procurement; integration and system-wide approaches; the offer to the NHS; and outcomes. The document also highlights challenges and future plans around funding, system-wide integration, engagement across the council structure and priority setting. (Edited publisher abstract)
Good practices related to LGBTI asylum applicants in Europe
- Author:
- JANSEN Sabine
- Editor:
- LE DEROFF Joel
- Publisher:
- ILGA-Europe
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 57
- Place of publication:
- Brussels
This report provides information on the current state of affairs in EU Member States in relation to the handling of LGBTI asylum cases and showcases good policy and practices from 13 countries. The report covers a broad range of aspects and issues relating to the asylum application process, including: criminalisation, discretion, credibility, late disclosure, internal flight alternative, country of origin information, interviewers and interpreters, LGBTI sensitivity trainings and special expertise, and the conditions in reception facilities. The document is intended to help frame comprehensive advocacy, capacity building, awareness raising and litigation strategies. (Edited publisher abstract)
New families, new governance and old habits
- Author:
- BUTLER Ian
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 36(4), 2014, pp.415-425.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
In December 2011, the UK Government formally launched its ‘troubled families’ initiative. This is a focused programme of interventions, coordinated at local level and paid for by results. It has been described by the Prime Minister as a part of the ‘social recovery’ that has to be set alongside the economic recovery that is his government's priority. It is illustrative of a decisive shift in the nature of the welfare state as it reflects the neo-liberal political project. It also reflects a purposed shift in social attitudes towards troubled and troublesome families, driven to a considerable degree by a vicious popular press. It is indicative of a marked shift in the pendulum from ‘rehabilitation’ to ‘rescue’ as the focus of welfare practice with children and families. Recent developments in the promotion of adoption of children in the UK should be viewed in this light. This paper considers how those families with tense or divergent relationships with the state are to be governed in the context of a state and a set of social attitudes that represents a decisive break with the post-war welfare consensus. (Publisher abstract)