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The disability equality duty disabled people's toolkit: for disabled people enquiring about how a public authority has met its duty to promote disability equality
- Author:
- DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Disability Rights Commission
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 17p.
- Place of publication:
- Stratford upon Avon
This toolkit is for disabled people: As a disabled person you might find that a public authority you have contact with does not have a DES in place, or if it does it may not be meeting its other specific duties under the legislation, or it just isn’t meeting one or more elements of the general duty to promote disability equality. If you think that a public authority is not meeting its duties and you want to find out more information from them this toolkit can help. The toolkit is a series of standard letters which disabled people can use to ask further questions of public authorities they have an interest in. Copies should be kept of all correspondence.
Making the duty work: a guide to the disability equality duty for disabled people and their organisations
- Author:
- DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Disability Rights Commission
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 42p.
- Place of publication:
- Stratford upon Avon
How often have you felt frustrated when your local council, local hospital, local school or government department just doesn't take disability equality seriously and discriminates without even thinking? Now is the chance to help them to sort it out. The Disability Equality Duty is a new way to help do this. This is a new approach for public authorities to make them tackle disability discrimination in a proactive and practical way. This guidance is aimed at disabled people and their local disability organisations to help them gear up for this new duty and to communicate the vital role which they have to play in utilising the effectiveness of this duty to achieve better disability equality outcomes from public services.
Employment and the disability equality duty: the disability equality duty and employment: a straightforward guide
- Author:
- DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Disability Rights Commission
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 35p.
- Place of publication:
- Stratford upon Avon
The Disability Equality Duty is a new way to help do this. This is a new approach for public authorities to make them tackle disability discrimination in a proactive and practical way. This guidance is aimed at disabled people and their local disability organisations to help them gear up for this new duty and to communicate the vital role which they have to play in utilising the effectiveness of this duty to achieve better disability equality outcomes from public services.
Pathways to success: good practice guide for children's services in the development of services for disabled children: evidence from the pathfinder children's trusts
- Author:
- WHEATLEY Helen
- Publisher:
- Council for Disabled Children
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 64p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The development of the children’s trust model for delivery of local services is at the heart of legislation and policy regarding all children and young people. The development of the pathfinder children’s trust’s work has been at the forefront in taking forward the duties set out in the Children Act 2004. Thirty five pathfinder children’s trusts were announced in 2003. Their brief was to improve partnership working and try out ways of doing this which suited local needs. Each children’s trust had a specific area which they identified as a focus for the development of an effective model. A third of the children’s trusts had identified disabled children’s services as their priority areas of work.
The disability equality duty: guidance on gathering and analysing evidence to inform action
- Author:
- DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Disability Rights Commission
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 62p.
- Place of publication:
- Stratford upon Avon
This guidance considers the practical issues involved in gathering and analysing evidence about disabled people as part of the public sector Disability Equality Duty. Along with a range of further Guidance documents this guidance will be of support for disabled people in the effective implementation of the duty and help meet organisations' overall strategic objectives. The Evidence Gathering Guidance includes a suggested standardised monitoring form.
Improving support for black disabled people: lessons from community organisations on making change happen
- Author:
- SINGH Becca
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 70p.
- Place of publication:
- York
This study reviews the JRF's Making Change Happen programme, which provided a year’s funding to four grassroots development organisations with a track record in providing support to black disabled people. The report sets out the lessons that emerged from the four development projects. It includes: overviews of the four development projects; lessons and common themes, with boxed illustrations from the projects; detailed case studies from two of the projects; practical pointers and suggestions for voluntary and community organisations wishing to improve support to black and minority ethnic disabled people; and some questions for funders and service providers to consider.
Developing Connexions: young people with disabilities, mental health needs or autistic spectrum disorders
- Authors:
- ROWLAND-CROSBY Nic, GIRAUD-SAUNDERS Alison, SWIFT Paul
- Publisher:
- Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 141p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report outlines a two and half year project evaluating the support offered by the new Connexions Service to young people with learning difficulties, physical impairments, to young deaf people, those with visual impairments, young people experiencing mental health problems or those with autistic spectrum disorders. The project covered five Connexions Services across the country. Lessons for good practice are outlined and recommendations for future service improvements made.
Safe and healthy: health and safety good practice guide for carers and workers providing home and community based short breaks to disabled children and young people
- Author:
- SHARED CARE NETWORK
- Publisher:
- Short Breaks Network
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 57p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
A practical book providing information and advice to short-break carers on keeping the disabled children in their care safe and healthy. Short chapters contents cover: risk assessments, home safety, fire safety, safety outside the home, safety in the care, personal care and hygiene, illnesses, accidents and care for children with pre-existing medical conditions, and pets. The contents will help to support carers in achieving the Children's Workforce Development standards for short-break carers. Also relevant for professionals supporting disabled children and young people including sitters, play scheme workers, befrienders and domiciliary care workers.
Threshold: determining the extent of impairment to children's development
- Authors:
- LITTLE Michael, AXFORD Nick, MORPETH Louise
- Publisher:
- Warren House
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 78p.
- Place of publication:
- Totnes
This practice tool helps practitioners to collect information about a child's health and development and to analyse it in a logical sequence that identifies the type and seriousness of impairment to development. Weighed alongside other criteria, the results help to improve decisions about if and how to intervene in a child's life. The tool seeks to improve the consistency of practice decisions, both in relation to an individual practitioner's caseload and across children's services. To that end, the tool encourages greater consultation about difficult judgements. The tool also helps practitioners evaluate their own practice.
Developments in direct payments
- Editors:
- LEECE Janet, BORNAT Joanna, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 305p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This book charts the change, critically evaluating progress, take-up, inclusion and access to direct payments by different user groups. With contributions from campaigners, academics, practitioners, direct payment users and personal assistants, the book: provides an overview of the history of direct payments; presents findings from key research into direct payments and disabled people, older people, carers, people with mental health problems, people with learning difficulties and disabled children; discusses the implementation and development of direct payments provision; compares developments in the UK with those in North America.