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A review of the North Powys family aide service: a community support service for people with learning difficulties and their families
- Author:
- EVANS Gerry
- Publisher:
- Mental Handicap in Wales Applied Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 41p., tables, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Reports on research into the use of family aides to support people with mental handicaps and their families in the community.
Dundee family support team: side by side respite care scheme
- Authors:
- ANDERSON David, BEVERIDGE Colin
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 46p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Report on a collaborative project between Tayside Health Board, Tayside Social Work Department, and Barnardo's, which offers support services to families with a child or young person with learning difficulties living at home. Concentrates on one aspect of the services offered - respite care. Describes the setting up and running of the scheme, and looks at recruitment, assessment, training and support for carers.
Bringing home the bacon
- Author:
- PHILPOT Terry
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 16.11.89, 1989, pp.21-24.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
High levels of public spending and widespread decentralisation have been the keys to Denmark's community care policies.
Why do we do it?: a consumer study of family-based respite care
- Authors:
- HUGHES Mike, HIND Dorothy
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 58p.
- Place of publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne
Based on interviews with 70 families with a child or young person with learning difficulties living at home in the Durham area.
Respite and family support services: responding to the need
- Authors:
- STARKEY J., SARLI P.
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 6(4), Winter 1989, pp.313-326.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Outlines various services, their value in preventing permanent institutional care, and issue arising.
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.