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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.
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.
Learning to help : training for respite carers
- Author:
- ROBINSON C.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 2.6.88, 1988, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Looks at the needs of, and provision of, training for people giving respite care for children with severe handicaps.
Learning disabilities and behaviour that challenges: service design and delivery
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Place of publication:
- London
This guideline covers services for children, young people and adults with a learning disability (or autism and a learning disability) and behaviour that challenges. It is based on the principle that children, young people and adults with a learning disability and behaviour that challenges should have the support they need to live where and how they want. It aims to promote a lifelong approach to supporting people and their families and carers, helping local areas to move their focus towards prevention and early intervention and minimising inpatient admissions. The guideline recommends ways of designing and delivering services that: help people to have a good quality of life, maximise people's choice and control, promote person-centred care and support, and identify when children, young people and adults are at risk of developing behaviour that challenges, so that support can be offered as early as possible. Specific recommendations cover strategic planning and infrastructure to achieve change, enabling person-centred care and support, early intervention and support for families and carers, carers break services, services in the community, and staff skills and values. The guideline should be read alongside the NICE guideline 11 on challenging behaviour and learning disabilities: prevention and interventions. (Edited publisher abstract)
All together now: meeting special educational needs through rural childcare services
- Author:
- NELSON Julia
- Publisher:
- Children in Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 9p.,list of orgs.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Discusses how Scottish rural childcare services, such as playgroups, childminders, nurseries and out-of-school groups, can support children with a learning or physical disability. Covers issues related to legislation; childcare/respite care; inclusive/separate approaches; training; transport; information; resources and contacts.
Services for children with learning disability: international perspectives on residential child care
- Editor:
- BARLOW Gerald
- Publisher:
- University of Strathclyde. Centre for Residential Child Care
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 50p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
Includes papers on: services for children with learning difficulties; between the ideal and the reality; exploring the relationship of the child educator; the Camphill Diploma Course in Curative Education; respite care in the Ottawa Rotary Home; a holistic approach at the Linn Moor Special Residential School; twenty two years of residential care for special needs children; education, care and therapy at the St. Margaret's School; the network family programme in Tasmania; and putting the concept of quality of care into operation.
Influence of gender, parental health, and perceived expertise of assistance upon stress, anxiety, and depression among parents of children with autism
- Authors:
- SHARPLEY Christopher, BITSIKA Vicki, EFREMIDIS Bill
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 22(1), March 1997, pp.19-28.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
A survey of Australian parents of children with autism was administered on a confidential and anonymous basis to find out influences on their levels of stress, anxiety and depression. Independent variables were: gender of parents, age of child and age of onset, parental health, access to other family members, and level of understanding of those family members of the child's problems. Data indicated that, although social support has previously been posited as an alleviating factor for parental stress, this may be a result of the perceived expertise of the family member who provides respite care for the parents. Issues of self-efficacy, training in behaviour management, and provision of home-based care for parents are discussed.
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.