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The social exclusion of disabled children: the role of the voluntary sector in the contract culture
- Author:
- MIDDLETON Laura
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 14(1), January 1999, pp.129-139.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Argues that the role played in educational terms by special schools is being mirrored in welfare by voluntary organisations who provide separate services for disabled children. The impact of the contract culture is reinforcing this trend so that the imperative in the Children Act 1989 to integrate is being undermined by the growing role of voluntary organisations as providers, rather than innovators or advocates. The article draws on previously published research into the changes in social workers role in relation to child protection, since the Children Act and a previously unpublished case study in a voluntary sector project.
Services for disabled children: integrating the perspective of social workers
- Author:
- MIDDLETON Laura
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Family Social Work, 3(4), November 1998, pp.239-246.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article addresses questions about the appropriate focus and direction of social work with disabled children, by triangulating parental views with those of social workers. Parents of nine disabled children were interviewed following the introduction of a specialist disability team in an inner city borough, following the implementation of the Children Act 1989. The parents' views reflect confusion and the need for emotional as well as material support, the last framed variously as counselling, advice and someone to listen. Social workers' comments on these findings, revealed a lack of confidence in their own abilities, a lack of clarity in their role and increasing disillusion with the services of their organisations.