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Home and away
- Authors:
- GOODISON Lucy, ARMITAGE Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 14.11.91, 1991, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Looks at the crucial role social workers play in supporting families from ethnic minorities with a child with learning difficulties.
Freedom to budget
- Author:
- COHEN Phil
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 16.5.91, 1991, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Reports on the work of the East Suffolk Project run by the Children's Society in conjunction with Suffolk Social Services Department and Suffolk Health Authority. The service for children with learning difficulties has a flexicare devolved budget administered by a social worker.
Shifting the focus
- Authors:
- KNOWLES Joyce, HARRIS Philip
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.4.91, 1991, pp.20-22.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on a training course in Bristol which aims to confront workers' attitudes to mentally handicapped people with challenging behaviour, encouraging a holistic view and the development of skills necessary to motivate them towards interdependence and interactive relationships.
Staff training in the management of violence and aggression
- Authors:
- McDONNELL Andrew, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap, 19(2), June 1991, pp.73-76.
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Mental Handicap
Training is placed in the context of an organisational system; emphasises the need for clear policies and describes the process of specifying a training system.
Fixed up for life
- Author:
- NELSON Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 9.5.91, 1991, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on Grampian Social Work Department's service brokerage scheme for people with learning disabilities.
When the chips are down
- Authors:
- RANDALL Peter, GIBB Charles
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.1.91, 1991, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Warns that social workers are on their own when it comes to assessing school leavers with disabilities.
Sharing differences towards common practices: an exploratory study of shared training opportunities in work with people with learning difficulties for students on the diploma in nursing studies and the diploma in social work
- Author:
- HARDING Trish
- Publisher:
- Bristol Polytechnic/Avon College of Health
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 65p.,
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
The review of the all Wales strategy: a view from the staff; a summary report on eight staff consultation events involving 250 front-line staff
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Welsh Office
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Welsh Office
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 54p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Looks at services provided and the clients using them, both children and adults. Services include: short term care; family placements; support for families; day services; accommodation for adults; and services for people with challenging behaviour. Goes on to examine views on: education; social security; planning and management; identification and assessment; consumer involvement; training and staff development; and monitoring and evaluation.
Inter-professional collaboration and education: an annotated bibliography
- Authors:
- TOASE Mary, comp
- Publisher:
- London School of Economics
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 40p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Bibliography of documents on inter-professional collaboration and education in primary health and community care. Professionals looked at are: people working in education; GP's; health visitors; nurses; occupational therapists; pharmacists; physiotherapists; psychiatrists; social workers; and speech therapists. Client groups include: addicts; children; older people; people with learning disabilities; and people with mental health problems.