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Befriending: more than just finding friends?
- Authors:
- HESLOP Pauline, ROBINSON Carol
- Publisher:
- Shared Care Network
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 108p..bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
There is a growing trend for the development of befriending services and increased government recognition that the provision of short break services (of which befriending is one of the range of services) is essential in supporting families of disabled people. Despite this there is a paucity of research evidence about the effectiveness of such services. It is these three factors which have prompted this research, which focuses on the views and experiences of 15 workers at seven befriending schemes for children and/or adults with learning difficulties in England; 34 people with learning difficulties using the schemes; 42 befrienders attached to them; and 46 parent carers of children/young people linked to any of the seven schemes.