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Putting up a fight
- Author:
- SIMS Jean
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 27.7.04, 2004, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
The number of appeals made by parents to the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal (SENDIST) has risen sharply in recent months. Looks at the reasons why.
Disabled children's rights: a practical guide
- Author:
- JONES Hazel
- Publisher:
- Save the Children Sweden
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 98p.
- Place of publication:
- Stockholm
The purpose of this practical guide is to provide a tool for the use by everyone, whether governmental, or non-governmental, local or international, disabled people's, children's or parents' organisations in becoming more aware of the situation of disabled children and in taking action to promote the rights of disabled children everywhere.
The structure of arguments used to support or oppose inclusion policies for students with disabilities
- Author:
- COLE Peter G.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 24(3), September 1999, pp.215-225.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Discusses the arguments which have been proposed to support or oppose the value of the inclusion model in the education of students with disabilities. The author places the arguments in four categories: consequentialist, justice, rights and the needs argument. discusses the arguments in detail which are commonly used to support or deny policies of inclusion.
The voice of the child: a handbook for professionals
- Editors:
- DAVIE Ronald, UPTON Graham, VARMA Ved
- Publisher:
- Falmer
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 184p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Handbook aimed at all professionals working with children. Includes papers on: the law in relation to the wishes and feelings of the child; listening to children in educational contexts; a social work perspective; eliciting children's views - the contribution of psychologists; the voice of the child in mental health practice; learning to listen to children; listening to children with disabilities and special educational needs; listening to and communicating with young children; gender issues; and race and the child's perspective.
The Children Act 1989: children and young people with learning disabilities; some opportunities and challenges
- Author:
- RUSSELL Philippa
- Publisher:
- National Development Team
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 74p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Places services for children and young people with learning difficulties in the context of the Children Act 1989 and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Looks at policy issues and potential service developments.
Legal issues arising from the care, control and safety of children with learning disabilities who also present severe challenging behaviour: an initiative of the Learning Disabilities Committee of the Mental Health Foundation
- Author:
- LYON Christina
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 215p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Research report providing detailed guidance on the impact of criminal, civil and public law provisions in England and Wales on the care and the monitoring of the residential care of children with learning difficulties who exhibit challenging behaviour. Looks in particular at the Children Act 1989 and what it will and will not allow in respect of control and restraint practice. Also presents extracts from the policies of selected SSDs on control and restraint.