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A study of partnership relationships at the Family Link project
- Author:
- LYON Kate
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's/University of Bristol. School of Applied Social Studies
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 58p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Ilford
Summary of the research methods, aims, and findings of a project studying partnership relationships within a project providing family based respite care for children with mental handicaps.
Give us a break
- Authors:
- COTTERILL Lesley, HAYES Lesley, SLOPER Tricia, FLYNN Margaret
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 23.3.95, 1995, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
In the main respite provision for adults with learning difficulties is associated with the notion of 'care burden'. Looks at a service provided by Natural Breaks which differs from most respite services in that it meets the needs of service users and not the carers.
Never mind what I like, it's who I am that matters:an investigation into social pedagogy as a method to enhance the involvement of young people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- CARTER Sid, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 41(4), 2013, pp.312-319.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The involvement of children and young people with learning disabilities in the decision-making of the services they use is recognised as an essential principle. However, implementation of this principle has encountered two main obstacles. One obstacle is that meaningful involvement has largely been subsumed by a provider-driven consumerist agenda. A second obstacle is the lack of methods to gain feedback that take account of an individual's cognitive and linguistic impairments. This article reports on the use of the social pedagogy approach to attempt to overcome these obstacles. The ideas were used to run a group to involve young people with learning disabilities who used short break services. The findings show that social pedagogy, which emphasises a balance between ‘head, heart and hands’, provided a means to establish egalitarian relationships with young people with learning disabilities. Thus, social pedagogy was found to be effective in enhancing involvement in the context of a person-centred approach. (Publisher abstract)
Room for improvement
- Authors:
- ROBINSON Carole, MINKES John, WESTON Clive
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.7.93, 1993, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Research by the authors' into six geographically dispersed local authority homes providing short-term care for children with learning difficulties revealed that although the quality of physical and emotional care the children received was consistently high, few staff have implemented key principles of the Children Act; such as a requirement that children who are accommodated should have a comprehensive child care plan written in consultation with parents and the child. Recommends that services need to be more child-centred and ethnically sensitive and that this may be achieved through training and access to relevant information.
The review of the all Wales strategy: a view from the users; a report on a survey of 50 self-advocacy groups involving 433 service users
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Welsh Office
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Welsh Office
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 52p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Looks at short-term care, help in the home, support and accommodation, day opportunities and consumer involvement.
Short breaks pathfinder evaluation: interim report: end of phase one
- Authors:
- GREIG Rob, et al
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Children, Schools and Families
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 25p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This evaluation report describes what has been happening in the Pathfinder sites and also explain why and for whom those things might have been happening. It then draws conclusions as to what that might mean for transferability of the learning to other situations and settings. The research consisted of a review of relevant national documentation, and discussions with other key national stakeholders and series of interviews, meetings and interactions with stakeholders from the 21 Pathfinder sites. Descriptions of the process and methodology used for the work, a summary of the initial ‘emerging theories of change’ that have arisen from the analysis of the data obtained, and a short comment on other issues and themes arising from the initial fieldwork and analysis. This report includes sections on: the effectiveness of parent participation in developing innovative short breaks; how involving children and young people is leading to more accessible and child focused short breaks; emerging inclusion and increase of ordinary community facilities; effectiveness of partnership working, where it exists; and a ‘softening’ of the process of accessing short breaks leading to a more open service available to more families.
Quality measures for befriending services
- Author:
- HESLOP Pauline
- Publisher:
- Shared Care Network
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 62p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
To date, there has been a lack of research evidence about the effectiveness of befriending services and little guidance about what good practice should entail.This is despite a proliferation in befriending services, their growing popularity and government recognition of their importance to families of disabled children. Key areas include; the aims of the service, publicising the service, referrals, assessment , training, matching befrienders to befriendees, support and supervision arrangements, serviceuser involvement, resources, policies, breaks and endings and evaluation.
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.
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.