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Choice of where and how you live: how families can create new solutions to a familiar problem
- Author:
- KING Nigel
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 6(1), February 2003, pp.27-32.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Describes how carers, families and social workers can find out more about the various housing and support options for people with learning difficulties. It explains the choices, how to go about getting housing and the support people can expect to find.
Fearful of help
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.4.00, 2000, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
An elderly woman and her family were living in squalor and social isolation and repeatedly rejected the offers of help. The author talks to a social worker about the uphill struggle she faced when she tried to improve their lives.
The ownership option
- Author:
- WOOLRYCH Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, November 1998, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Home ownership can give people with disabilities the independence and quality of life they want. Reports that it can be a reality even for people on income support, and social workers should know the options available.
Social work law in Scotland
- Authors:
- FABB Janet, GUTHRIE Thomas G
- Publisher:
- Butterworths
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 341p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Provides a clear outline of the legal framework within which social work operates in Scotland and is aimed primarily at those with no previous knowledge of the law. Begins with a general introduction to legal terminology and procedure and goes on to discuss different areas of law, including: housing, benefits, debt recovery, and discrimination. Also takes into account the Children(Scotland)Act 1995. Concludes with a chapter on professional responsibility and accountability.
Rights, needs and the user perspective: a review of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990
- Editors:
- BALLOCH Sue, et al
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Social Work
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 105p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Review looking at the diverse and sometimes contradictory perspectives and experiences of a wide range of stakeholders in community care services. Aims to record what they think has really been taking place. Contains chapters on: key issues; identifying need; users' perspectives; the perspective of black communities; older people; older people with dementia and their carers; people with learning difficulties; rationing, charging and costs; housing and community care; community care and substance misuse; and social services departments and their staff.
Tackling violence against disabled women and girls: a toolkit for social care, housing, mental health and safeguarding services 2019
- Authors:
- BALDERSTON Susie, et al
- Publisher:
- Disability Rights UK
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Pagination:
- 105
- Place of publication:
- London
This toolkit aims to help social workers, mental health and housing professionals to make their services more accessible and relevant for disabled/Deaf women and girls who have experienced violence or abuse. It is based on the findings of use-led research led by Vision Sense and co-produced with Against Violence and Abuse (AVA) and the Centre for Disability Research (CeDR) at Lancaster University. The report provides the results of a literature review on longer term interventions; a review of learning from Safeguarding Adults Reviews (SARs), Domestic Homicide Reviews and Preventable Death Reports to identify learning from service providers; and the results of interviews with disabled/Deaf women and girls who has experienced violence on what they want from services to help them stay safe in the medium and longer term. The research identified severe barriers to equality of outcome for disabled or Deaf women who are survivors of violence, particularly at the intersection of gender, disability, ethnicity, poverty and multiple disadvantage. It concludes that the co-production of solutions with disabled survivors who have a lived experience of violence can help to achieve quality of outcome and improve life chances. The research also found that much regulation in safeguarding, inspection, commissioning and for-profit or charity provision is failing disabled people. The report includes checklists and recommendations for all services and specific recommendations for individual services, including Safeguarding Board; health and social care services; and housing services. The project was funded by Big Lottery Fund through DRILL (Disability Research on Independent Living and Learning) Fast Track. (Edited publisher abstract)