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Working with natural parents to prevent long-term care
- Author:
- ADCOCK Margaret
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption and Fostering, 7(3), 1983, pp.8-16.
- Publisher:
- Sage
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Positive choices: services for children with disabilities living away from home; report of two seminars ... to identify key issues and positive choices in the development of short and long-term care
- Author:
- RUSSELL Philippa
- Publisher:
- National Children's Bureau
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 142p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Adopting a stance on the act
- Author:
- BECKETT Celia
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.8.92, 1992, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The imminent Adoption Law Review, coupled with the Children Act raises questions for children in long-term care. The author outlines her research.
Social services: care across generations
- Author:
- EUROPEAN SOCIAL NETWORK
- Publisher:
- European Social Network
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 35p.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
The report looks at child poverty and long term care. The author is the European Social Network (ESN), the independent network for social services in Europe. ESN Members are key providers of vital social services and work closely with health, employment and education services and voluntary and private providers. While models of organisation and financing vary, social services across Europe have a strong tradition of delivering care, support and protection to vulnerable people in disadvantaged communities.
Self-management education for children with epilepsy (review)
- Authors:
- STOKES T., et al
- Publisher:
- John Wiley and Sons
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 13p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
There is increased interest in the use of self-management education which helps patients to become 'experts' in their own illness. This is particularly important for children and young people with long-term illnesses, such as epilepsy. Epilepsy self-management programmes can include a variety of actions that can be taken by people with epilepsy to improve their quality of life; such as taking antiepileptic medication as prescribed, changing one's lifestyle to control seizure frequency, physical safety, and addressing difficulties at school or in social situations.
From hospital to home: guidance on management and community support for children using long-term ventilation
- Authors:
- NOYES Jane, LEWIS Mary
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 136p.
- Place of publication:
- Barkingside
This guidance, commissioned by the Department of Health, aims to improve the management of services for children who are discharged from hospital requiring long-term ventilation. It is based on the National Service Framework (NSF) for Children, research evidence, best practice and current thinking, and builds on earlier reports and studies. The guidance focuses on children whose needs are at the more complex end of the spectrum, and who require multi-agency support in the community. It is divided into sections which include: core principles underpinning the organisation and delivery of care; a care pathway which has been adopted as an NSF exemplar; hints, tips and tools for using the care pathway locally; a bibliography and list of statutory and voluntary organisations.
Outlooks Family Centre NCH Action for Children Project: perspectives of parents and professionals
- Authors:
- JACKSON Dawn, GALVIN Kathleen
- Publisher:
- Bournemouth University. Institute of Health and Community Studies
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 75p.
- Place of publication:
- Bournemouth
Describes the NCH Action For Children project which is involved in the care planning process once the possibility of long term residential care is an option. Parents of a child may be invited to visit the unit prior to an application being made to the admissions panel. The child or young person concerned, will not be introduced to the unit unless an agreement to proceed with an introduction to the unit has been made by the panel. He or she will explore with the social worker responsible for care planning, whether the unit can provide the appropriate placement and arrange for parent, legal guardian or other significant adults in the child's life to visit the unit.
Early intervention: decision-making in local authority children's services: final report
- Author:
- ANDERSON Beth
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 58
- Place of publication:
- London
This is a study of local authority decision-making in respect to long-term decision making and early intervention services. The study seeks to gain a better understanding of the factors that facilitate and hinder delivery of improved outcomes for children and families over the longer-term. This report synthesises the data gathered from: a literature review; 30 telephone interviews with senior officers and members in local authorities in England; and feedback from 49 subject matter experts attending five regional events. (Publisher abstract)
Politics of defamilialization: a comparison of Italy, Japan, Korea and Spain
- Authors:
- ESTEVEZ-ABE Margarita, NALDINI Manuela
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of European Social Policy, 26(4), 2016, pp.327-343.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article investigates the politics of ‘defamilialization of care’ in four familialist countries – Italy, Japan, Korea and Spain – during the past 15 years. By ‘defamilialization of care’, the authors refer to those public policies, which aim at reducing the care responsibility of the family – both for the young and the old. They build upon the existing literature on new social risks by highlighting the role of those macro-political institutions such as electoral systems and government types in order to demonstrate that there are two very different types of politics of defamilialization: (1) election-oriented and (2) problem-oriented. The authors attribute different policy outcomes in the four familialist countries to their specific institutional configurations rather than to partisan government composition or different cultural orientations. (Edited publisher abstract)
‘My heart is always where he is’. Perspectives of mothers of young people with severe intellectual disabilities and challenging behaviour living at home
- Author:
- HUBERT Jane
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 39(3), September 2011, pp.216-224.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
To date, there is a dearth of research examining the perspectives of families caring for someone with severe or profound intellectual disabilities and challenging behaviour. This study investigated the experiences and perspectives of families, particularly mothers, of young people with these complex needs, including attitudes to long-term residential care. Data was drawn from interviews with mothers over a two year period, and participant observation of 10 young men and 10 young women aged 15 to 22. Findings revealed that the mothers’ main focus was on their son or daughter with intellectual disabilities. Most were socially isolated, even from close family. Negative attitudes to institutions and fears for the safety and well-being of their children led to determination not to put them into long-term care. In spite of the difficulties, mothers struggled to care for the young people at home. Lack of effective services, especially around transition to adulthood, increased parents’ protectiveness of their children.