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Wight for the job
- Author:
- DONALDSON Liza
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 16.4.92, 1992, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Reports on three private companies set up by the Isle of Wight SSD, which offer employment for people with mental or physical handicaps.
Channel crossing
- Author:
- HUNTER Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 16.09.04, 2004, pp.42-43.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on an Anglo-French partnership, between Medway Council and the Maison de l'Initiative in the Grande Synthe region, which is pioneering 'cultural mediation' as a way to combat exclusion among ethnic minorities. The project is funded until July 2005 by the European Union's Interreg IIIA programme. In Medway the project is focusing on improving access to social services for people from ethnic minorities with mental health needs, physical disabilities and learning difficulties. In France the mediators are targeting employment issues for ethnic minorities.
Tools for inclusive activation: improving the social inclusion of people furthest from the labour market
- Author:
- EUROPEAN SOCIAL NETWORK
- Publisher:
- European Social Network
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Pagination:
- 51
- Place of publication:
- Brussels
This toolkit for senior social services professionals provides guidance and practice examples on inclusion strategies of people furthest from the labour market. These include the long-term unemployed, people with disabilities, young people, migrants and refugees, homeless people, people with mental illness or single parents. It is based on the findings from a literature review and a questionnaire focus group discussion from members of the Social European Network. Drawing on an analysis of the literature, a questionnaire and seminar discussion with members of the Social European Network, the toolkit covers three key areas of guidance when designing inclusive activation policy and practice. These are: coordination between services - which could involve care coordinators, On-stop-shops or public-private partnerships; availability and adequacy of resources; and designing pathways to inclusion for specific groups who are not immediately employable and need tailored support to integrate in the labour market. These populations include the long-term unemployed, people with disabilities, young people, migrants and refugees, homeless people or people suffering from mental illness, and single parents with caring duties. Practice examples include the Disability and vulnerable people employment strategy implemented in Gloucestershire County Council in the United Kingdom. (Edited publisher abstract)
'It's the system working for the system': carers' experiences of learning disability services in Ireland
- Author:
- POWER Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 17(1), February 2009, pp.92-98.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The aim of this article is to examine the experiences of families with young adults with learning disabilities trying to access services. The landscape of disability services for this group is made up of day care, special vocational training and respite places. It aims to identify the extent of an implementation gap between government rhetoric and the degree to which services are characterised as being non-supportive interactions on the ground. Using Ireland as a case study, during a time when the economy is booming and government rhetoric claims unparalleled developments in allocating resources and extra respite 'places', this article identifies the main challenges faced by family carers associated with accessing appropriate services for their disabled adult child, in their attempt to achieve greater independence. This article reports the findings of a qualitative study in which individual semi structured interviews were held with family carers (n = 25) and representatives from national carer organisations (n = 6) in Ireland. These were people caring for an adult (18–30 years) with a learning disability and their experiences were also useful in cross-checking the carer organisation interviews. The findings show that there is limited flexibility, choice and availability in meeting the preferences of the service-users, and throughout the study, services were characterised as being non-supportive interactions. This is not simply symptomatic of a lack of resources. Despite improved funding, supportive attitudes and flexibility are still crucial in meeting user requirements at the level of delivery; thus highlighting that often the system works for the system, not for the user.
Minding the gap
- Authors:
- HISLOP Pauline, MALLETT Robina
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 16(3), 2003, pp.17-20.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Reports on a recent study which aimed to discover whether legislation and guidance were being followed to help young people with learning difficulties and their families cope with the complexities of transition from child to adult services. The study, undertaken by the Home Farm Trust and the Norah Fry Research Centre, surveyed 283 families and interviewed 27 young people and 27 parent carers in England.
Getting the message across
- Authors:
- BIRCHALL Christine, WARREN Derek
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.6.00, 2000, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
In the first half the article, the author who is employed in a project to help adults with learning difficulties back into work, offers some pointers on publicising its good work. In the second part, the author, advises how a project which set up the first behaviour resource service in Southampton to help children and young people with complex mental health problems and behavioural difficulties, could gain positive publicity.
Widening the loop: the co-ordination of rehabilitation services for people with disabilities
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Inter-Departmental Group on Disability. Sub-Group on the Co-ordination of Rehabilitation Services for People with Disabilities
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Inter-Departmental Group on Disability
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 19p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report looking at ways of improving communication and co-ordination of service planning and delivery between national and local statutory and non-statutory agencies concerned with rehabilitation, education and training (including employment) for people with disabilities.
Social services made simple. 4th ed
- Authors:
- BYRNE Tony, PADFIELD Colin F
- Publisher:
- Heinemann
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 512p., tables, diags.
- Place of publication:
- London
Provides a historical background to the modern welfare state, and chapters on social security, various client groups, housing, employment, offenders, social work, Social Services Departments finance, and complaints procedures.
Practitioner social work research in action
- Editors:
- BROAD Bob, FLETCHER Colin
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 194p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains research findings, as well as accounts of the development and adaptation of relevant research methods. Chapters are grouped into 4 types of practitioner research: investigation; appraisal; innovation; and state of the art reviews. Includes papers on: placing people with learning difficulties in employment; emergency social service duty systems; women in social services management; perceptions of a children's observation and assessment centre; problem drinkers on probation; dealing with clients with mental health problems; assessment of user needs; applying life history work; recognising elder abuse; the tutorial system in social work education; the adoption of children with learning difficulties; and an agenda for practitioner research.
Social work in a multi-racial society
- Authors:
- ELY Peter, DENNEY David
- Publisher:
- Gower
- Publication year:
- 1987
- Pagination:
- 231p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot