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Learning disability strategic action plan 2022 to 2026
- Author:
- WALES. Welsh Government
- Publisher:
- Wales. Welsh Government
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 20
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This action plan sets out the Welsh Government's overarching strategic agenda for the development and implementation of learning disability policy for the remainder of the current term of government, 2022 to 2026. The action plan (and associated delivery plan) is a living document and will be updated to reflect any changes to priorities and circumstances as they arise. It is designed to be flexible and contains actions that can reasonably be expected to be achieved given the ongoing focus on pandemic recovery and limits on available resources. Priority areas identified in the plan include: overarching/cross-cutting, including cross-government activity that may not sit in one specific area; COVID recovery; health, including reducing health inequalities and avoidable deaths; social services and social care; facilitating independent living and access to services through increased access to advocacy and self-advocacy skills, engagement and collaboration; education including children and young people's services; employment and skills; housing - appropriate housing, close to home, access to joined-up services; and transport. (Edited publisher abstract)
Carers (Scotland) Act 2016 Implementation Plan 2021-2023 (March 2021)
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Government
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Government
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The Carers (Scotland) Act 2016 came into force on 1 April 2018. This plan sets out outcomes and actions in relation to six key priorities for implementation of the Act in 2020/21, 2021/22 and 2022/23. The Act extends and enhances the rights of carers. The aim is to better support carers on a more consistent basis so that they can continue to care, if they so wish, in good health and to have a life alongside caring. In relation to young carers, the intention is similar to that for adult carers but also that young carers should have a childhood similar to their non-carer peers. The six key priorities set out in this report are: strategy and leadership; legislation and guidance; workforce and systems support and development; raising awareness; carer involvement and choice; measuring progress and impact. (Original abstract)
Youth in foster care and the reasonable and prudent parenting standard
- Authors:
- MCRELL Amanda Stafford, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child Maltreatment, 26(3), 2021, pp.302-312.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Children in foster care face disproportionate rates of biopsychosocial challenges but social and extracurricular activities (SEAs) may support their healthy development. The Reasonable and Prudent Parenting Standard (RPPS), a 2014 federal policy, aims to increase access to these opportunities for children in foster care. Analyses of statutes from 50 US states and the District of Columbia (n = 51) revealed similarities and differences in state-level RPPS policy implementation. Building on these findings, researchers conducted semi-structured retrospective telephone interviews with foster parents across one southeastern state (n = 20) to identify local retrospective perspectives on RPPS implementation. Using thematic inductive coding two unique themes emerged about SEAs prior to RPPS: 1) negative social impacts and 2) complicated activity approval processes. Three unique themes emerged after RPPS: 1) empowerment, 2) implementation disparities and 3) resource recommendations. Policy implications include the need to support foster parents by increasing resources (funding, transportation, access), clarifying liability and clarifying motivation expectations. (Edited publisher abstract)
Policy measures adopted to support unpaid care across Europe
- Authors:
- LE BIHAN Blanche, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Eurohealth, 25(4), 2019, pp.10-14.
- Publisher:
- European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
- Place of publication:
- Brussels
Providing informal care can have significant negative effects for carers in terms of reducing psychological and physical health outcomes, constraining social participation and limiting ability to remain in formal employment. Developing policies to support informal carers is therefore an important policy objective to enable carers to continue caring for as long as they wish to do so and to ensure that the future availability of unpaid care is sufficient to meet demand. There are different types of policy measures addressed directly to carers that have been implemented across Europe to support provision of informal care. (Edited publisher abstract)
The 2014 Scottish independence debate: questions of social welfare and social justice
- Authors:
- MOONEY Gerry, SCOTT Gill
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 23(1), 2015, pp.5-16.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This paper aims to foreground some of the main ways in which issues of social welfare and social policy came to occupy centre stage in the Scottish independence debate during recent years, culminating in the September 2014 Scottish independence referendum. It considers how issues relating to social welfare and the future of the welfare state more generally were advanced by the pro-Scottish independence YES camp as key arguments in the overall case for independence. This then disputes suggestions to the contrary that the pro-YES movement was a campaign driven primarily by issues of Scottish nationalism and national identity. Instead issues of social welfare, social justice and the creation of a more equal Scotland dominated.
Better services for people with an autistic spectrum disorder
- Author:
- CHAPLIN Eddie
- Journal article citation:
- Advances in Mental Health and Learning Disabilities, 1(4), December 2007, pp.27-28.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The author provides a critical commentary of 'Better Services for People with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder', published by the Department of Health in 2006. The document sought to clarify the nature and intent of current government policies and to encourage local health and social care providers to develop 'local agendas for action' in ensuring its implementation.
So many contradictions
- Author:
- TAYLOR Amy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 6.12.07, 2007, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author discusses the contradictions in government policy for carers. The article highlights the extended school initiatives and how they fail to take into account carers looking after disabled children; truancy policies which neglect the difficulties facing young carers; the Fair Access to Care guidance which takes little account of an adults family and caring responsibilities when assessing for services; and tax credits policy.
Basic sanitation in Brazil: lessons from the past, opportunities from the present, challenges for the future
- Author:
- HELLER Leo
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Comparative Social Welfare, 23(2), October 2007, pp.141-153.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper presents an analysis of water supply and sanitation (WSS) services in Brazil, and focuses on the broader concept of "basic sanitation" used in Brazil. The analysis departs from the assumption that there is a need to combine appropriate technological approaches with a public-policy perspective that recognises the relevance of the political dimension. The author adopts the concept of "systemic conditions" as an analytical tool to integrate the structural factors and processes that influence and even determine the development of WSS services. A brief description of the sector's historical evolution is included, and key obstacles and opportunities facing the sector are identified. The article examines the current state of access to the services, including the political, institutional and legal aspects, and highlights some of the challenges ahead. It shows that, although the Brazilian WSS sector has achieved important advances, there are significant deficits in several areas that need to be addressed. Closing this gap will require the adoption of a new institutional framework oriented at the universalisation of the services based on the principle of equity, and the recognition and understanding of the existing asymmetries in service provision. Moreover, it will also require an in-depth understanding of the systemic conditions and of the tensions and contradictions characterising the interrelations between the different actors, particularly in the face of the resistance to change already experienced in relation to ongoing institutional changes in the sector.
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.
Pushed to the edge: life for unpaid carers in the UK: the voices and experiences of unpaid carers
- Author:
- CARERS TRUST
- Publisher:
- Carers Trust
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 37
- Place of publication:
- London
Findings from a survey of over 1,550 unpaid carers across the UK, providing evidence of a deep-rooted failure by successive governments to understand and meet the basic support needs of millions of people struggling to provide unpaid care for a family member or friend. Headline findings include: 91% of unpaid family carers feel ignored by the Government; 84% of survey respondents disagreed, or disagreed strongly, with the statement ‘I have confidence in the Government’s ability to improve the lives of unpaid carers; 49% of survey respondents said they’d had to use their personal savings because of their caring role; 51% of survey respondents said they’d had to give up on hobbies or personal interests because of their caring role. The report calls on the UK governments to develop at pace a strategy and approach which meets the following objectives: 1. Governments across the UK must develop and deliver strategies for transformational and lasting change for unpaid carers, with unpaid carers at the heart of this; 2. Improve the availability of statutory care and support for people with care and support needs of all ages, so that unpaid carers’ caring roles are sustainable and unpaid carers have a real choice; 3. Unpaid carers need access to their own support when they need it – Governments should sustainably fund support for unpaid carers, including regular breaks and respite, and support that means unpaid carers can live a meaningful life alongside caring; 4. Governments across the UK should act to ensure unpaid carers are protected from financial hardship and poverty – unpaid carers should not be financially worse off because of caring. (Edited publisher abstract)