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The influence of media and respondent characteristics on the outcome of a campaign to recruit host families for adults with learning disability
- Author:
- HANRAHAN Des
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 36(6), September 2006, pp.979-996.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Family-based short break schemes depend on accessing suitable hosts. Recruitment is seen as a major challenge yet there are no published studies that examine this for adult services. This paper aims to redress that by describing what type of person responded to a campaign to recruit hosts for adults with learning disabilities, and to explore if there is a relationship between (i) the outcome of each enquiry and the respondents and (ii) outcome and how the respondents found out about the service. The study involved a retrospective examination of documented information about each of forty-nine respondents, supplemented with telephone contact. The respondents were mainly married women aged thirty to fifty, with two or more children, from urban settings and who were employed outside the home. Most had heard about the service through newspapers and posters. Thirty-nine per cent applied to host. Age, family size, age of children and location were associated with outcome. Experience was an important predictor of outcome. Word of mouth was the most successful means of recruiting. While broad-based advertising is shown to attract hosts, the results can be maximized by follow-up of those who do not apply immediately. Implications for service delivery and research are discussed.
Recruiting and supporting short-break carers for children who are considered 'hard to place'
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Family-based, short-break (shared care or respite care) services provide support services to disabled children or adults and their families, through linking them with families or individuals who can provide short breaks on a regular basis. While disabled children or adults experience new relationships, environments and activities, their families get 'time to themselves'. These services are often a critical support for families with disabled children. However, children and young people who have complex healthcare needs or 'challenging behaviour', and/or who come from minority ethnic families, are often not provided with short break services: they are 'hard to place'. This study by Beth Prewett investigated why short-break carers provided breaks for 'hard to place' children, and looked at their recruitment, assessment, training and support. Outlines the findings.
Committed to caring: the views of short break carers for children who are hard to place
- Author:
- PREWETT Beth
- Publisher:
- York Publishing/Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 109p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Shared care schemes provide a support service to disabled children and their families. They link disabled children with families or individuals who can provide them with short breaks on a regular basis. Disabled children experience new relationships, environments and activities while their families get time to themselves. This report describes: who becomes a short break carer for children who are hard to place and why; how these carers are recruited and assessed; and what training and support is provided. It highlights issues relating to recruiting and retaining short break carers. Includes practical advice and recommendations arising from the research at the end of each chapter.
Respite care in the East End: a multi-cultural challenge
- Author:
- LENEHAN Christine
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- Ilford
Summarises some key structural and service aspects of the project's development, including its publicity, staffing and first recruitment campaign for support families. Looks at the children referred to the project, and their needs. Describes the carers, their recruitment, and training. Outlines how families and carers are brought together and how they are supported. Provides 4 examples of respite care in action. Finally, details some of the realities of working with the Bangladeshi community.
Signposts in fostering: policy, practice and research issues
- Editor:
- HILL Malcolm
- Publisher:
- British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 380p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Brings together seminal papers, previously published in the journal Adoption and Fostering, contributing to the shaping of fostering practice. Includes articles on: local authority fostering in Wales; a comparative survey of specialist fostering; developing leaving care services; recruiting and retaining foster carers; gender, sex and sexuality in the assessment of prospective carers; assessing Asian families in Scotland; involving birth parents in foster care training; using respite care to prevent long term family breakdown; short term family based care for children in need; short term foster care; meeting the needs of sibling groups in care; fostering as seen by the carers children; fostering children and young people with learning difficulties; the importance of networks to partnership in child centred foster care; how foster carers view contact; the role of social workers in supporting and developing the needs of foster carers; the social worker's experience of contact; social work and the education of children in foster care; the health of children looked after by the local authority; the statutory medical and health needs of looked after children; how foster parents experience social work with particular reference to placement endings; foster carers who cease to foster; the implications of recent child care research findings for foster care; and the foster child - the forgotten party.