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Mentoring across generations: partnerships for positive youth development
- Authors:
- TAYLOR Andrea S., BRESSLER Jeanette
- Publisher:
- Kluwer Academic
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 135p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- New York
Describes the work of Across Ages, a project based in Philadelphia which uses mentoring by older people to help disadvantaged children to avoid drugs and develop as individuals. Explains the theories behind mentoring and how to set up a project. Outlines lessons from Across Ages and makes recommendations for future practice.
Draft National Care Standards: first tranche - a consultation paper
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 99p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This consultation document sets out the first three draft National Care Standards for care of older people, people with mental health problems, and children and young people. This first tranche focuses on standards in care homes.
Draft national care standards: consultation document - first tranche
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 99p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The proposal to develop National Care Standards for a wide range of social care provision was set out in the White Paper: Aiming for Excellence (March_1999). The standards need to be in place for the proposed new Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care. (S.C.R.C.) This consultation document sets out the first 3 draft National Care Standards for care of - Older People, People with Mental Health Problems and, Children and Young People. This first tranche focuses on standards in care homes. Subsequent tranches will cover other groups and also domiciliary and day services
Schooling across the generations
- Author:
- HEPTINSTALL Derek
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 4(3), July 2000, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Reports on the Trans Age Action scheme, where older volunteers in Camden are helping children in schools and play centres.
How important is parenthood: childlessness and support in old age in England
- Authors:
- WENGER G. Clare, SCOTT Anne, PATTERSON Nerys
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 20(2), March 2000, pp.161-182.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This article asks whether the distinction between parenthood and childlessness make much difference to social support in old age. Using data from Liverpool, it compares the support networks of older people in three categories: parents; married but childless and unmarried and childless. The principal finding is that childlessness has a negative impact on support network strength only for single men and married women. The findings have implications for the evaluation of social policies that are based on the expectation that individual female family members, in the context of a male-breadwinner family, will provide 'caring' for dependent persons. Such provision of care may incur diminished receipt of care for some women in old age.
A sensitive mission
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 28.1.00, 2000, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author talks to members of an older people's team who performed a delicate balancing act to protect an elderly widow and her daughter with learning difficulties without upsetting family relationships.
Family poverty and social exclusion
- Author:
- FAMILY POLICY STUDIES CENTRE
- Publisher:
- Family Policy Studies Centre
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 12p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Sets out the scale of the problem for families presented by poverty and social exclusion, including a discussion of the definition, causes and alleviation of poverty. Describes the Government's policy for tackling this problem and lists the indicators against which the resulting programme will be monitored.
Facing the future: Building on the lessons of winter 1999/2000
- Author:
- NORTHERN IRELAND. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
Report reviewing the demand for health and social services in Northern Ireland during the winter of 1999/2000 and evaluating the effectiveness of arrangements that were put in place to deal with the high levels of demand placed on services. Draws on the lessons learned to identify actions required to develop services to cope with future demands.
Adult children of elderly parents who remarry: aetiology of domestic abuse
- Authors:
- LOWENSTEIN Ariela, RON Pnina
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adult Protection, 2(4), November 2000, pp.22-32.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This research paper from Israel examines damaging family reactions to later-life remarriage. It describes a study based on qualitative data from interviews with 17 children of elderly parents who had remarried and later reported their adult children to the social service agencies as abusers. An analysis of the interviews shows that the main cause of the abuse was financial and involved matters of inheritance, wills and the distribution of assets. The dynamics which lay behind this pattern of family behaviour are explored.
Adults only: disability, social policy and the life course
- Author:
- PRIESTLEY Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 29(3), July 2000, pp.421-439.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
This article examines the relationship between disability, generation and social policy. The moral and legislative framework for the post-war welfare settlement was grounded in a long-standing cultural construction of 'normal' life course progression. Disability and age (along with gender) were the key components in this construction, defining broad categories of welfare dependency and labour force exemption. The article suggests that, as policy-makers pursue their millennial settlement with mothers, children and older people, they also may be forced to reconstruct the relationship between disabled people and the welfare state.