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Institutional talk and practices: a journey into small group-homes for intellectually disabled children
- Author:
- FYLKESNES Ingunn
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 36(6), 2021, pp.999-1020.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article sheds light on a group of children who are hardly visible within the body of research: intellectually disabled children living away from home in full-time institutional settings. The purpose of the study was to contribute to the extended knowledge of these children’s everyday life and to inform researchers, authorities and service providers. Participant observations have been the main method of generating data, supported by interviews with professionals and parents. An interpretive analytical approach was employed. The results presented in this article show how institutional talk and practices can evolve within institutional systems, and how these factors affect the everyday lives of children. (Edited publisher abstract)
Going home to the community
- Authors:
- HALL S., COLLIN J.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 9.2.89, 1989, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
For a group of children with learning disabilities, moving to a smaller community home proved a positive experience.
They keep going away: a critical study of short-term residential care services for children who are mentally handicapped
- Author:
- OSWIN Maureen
- Publisher:
- King Edward's Hospital Fund for London
- Publication year:
- 1984
- Pagination:
- 276p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Unchecked cruelty
- Author:
- FISER Ivan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.07.03, 2003, p.45.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on an inquiry's failure to bring prosecutions or recommend safeguards to prevent future ill-treatment of children with learning difficulties in state homes in Bulgaria.
Tiny trust, big dreams
- Author:
- STRONG Susannah
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 3.6.94, 1994, p.12.
Looks at the work of the May Trust run by parents of children with learning and/or physical disabilities who were brought up in Camphill communities.
Dundee residential project: the first two years
- Author:
- HUGHES Mike
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 32p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Dundee
Study tracing the early history and describing the first 2 years of a community care project for children and young people with a mental handicap. Examines the expectations families have of staff, and the characteristics of the young people who were referred for consideration.
Normalisation and the Children's Society: findings and impressions from studies of the Society's interest in and application of normalisation 1983-1988
- Authors:
- WILLIAMS Paul, RACE David
- Publisher:
- Community and Mental Handicap Educational and Research Association
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 48p., tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Normalisation and the Children Society's work with children with mental handicaps : values, ordinary housing, organisational change.
Building trust
- Author:
- COSH Jackie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 23.9.10, 2010, p.20.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The students and residents of the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) Rushton School and Children's Home in Coventry have severe learning disabilities and complex needs. This article describes how staff worked with a construction company to ease the transition for children from the old school and home to a new purpose-built school next door.
Parents whose children with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour attend 52-week residential schools: their perceptions of services received and expectations of the future
- Authors:
- McGILL Peter, TENNYSON Alan, COOPER Vivien
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 36(4), June 2006, pp.597-616.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This paper reports the findings of a survey of parents whose children attended 52-week residential schools. Seventy-three parents completed a postal questionnaire which asked questions about three main areas: support and services received prior to their child’s entry into residential education; perceptions of the quality of care and education provided by residential schools; and concerns for their child’s future care and welfare. Telephone interviews were conducted with 14 parents, to obtain additional information on the topics addressed by the questionnaire. Parents were critical of services and support received prior to their child’s entry into residential education and reported high rates of exclusion from local services. Residential schools were generally perceived as providing a good quality of service, though considerable concern was expressed about their geographical distance from the family home, and this had a significant impact on the frequency of visits. Parents expressed high levels of concern about the future care and support needs of their children. Further research is required to understand the relationship between the availability and quality of local services and the need for 52-week residential schools. The impact of distant residential education on parent–child relationships and on future demand for residential care is considered.
The cost of caring: the economics of providing for the intellectually disabled
- Authors:
- KAVANAGH Shane, OPIT Louis
- Publisher:
- Politeia
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 82p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Disability surveys, including adjustment for the mid-1990s balance of care, found that 93 per cent of children lived in ordinary households. Average weekly costs for children (0-16 years) resident in private households was £330 per week at 1994-95 prices. Fifty-four per cent of costs accrued to education services, 34 per cent to the family, 7 per cent to primary and secondary health care, and 4 per cent accrued to social care services. For children in communal establishments, the average weekly cost of the placement and other service use was between £554 (private residential homes) and £1128 in local authority residential homes.