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The Team around the child: multi-agency service coordination for children with complex needs and their families; a manual for service development
- Author:
- LIMBRICK Peter
- Publisher:
- Interconnections
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 39p.bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
The increasing number of children who have multiple and complex disabilities has highlighted the need for new systems of service provision in which health, education and social services and the voluntary sector join together to offer the child and the family a coordinated approach. Although this need is recognised by all tiers of government the call for coordination needs to be accompanied by more practical suggestions as to how to achieve it.
Ignored or ineligible: the reality for adults with autism spectrum disorders
- Authors:
- BARNARD Judith, et al
- Publisher:
- National Autistic Society
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 28p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Argues that people with autism or Asperger syndrome suffer from social exclusion and barriers to accessing services. Surveys problems relating to their rights to assessment and support; the difficulties they experience in maintaining independent living; their lack of choice in employment and housing; their exclusion from social relationships; and the consequences for them in impaired mental health. Makes recommendations for improved practice, particularly the breaking down of eligibility criteria which may exclude them from learning disability services, and the improvement of transition plans for young people moving into adulthood.