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Growing pains
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.7.95, 1995, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
For many disabled young people who have spent most of their lives in residential care, leaving just means moving into adult residential homes. Asks what should be done.
The power to change: commissioning health and social services with disabled people
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- King's Fund
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 46p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Sets out guidelines for those commissioning health and social services for people with physical and/or sensory impairments between the ages of 16 and 65.
Easy targets: a disability rights perspective on the 'children as carers' debate
- Authors:
- MORRIS Jenny, KEITH Lois
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 44/45, Autumn 1995, pp.36-57.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Looks at how the children of disabled parents are being defined as 'young carers', arguing that the way in which this is happening undermines both the rights of children and the rights of disabled people. Analysis of the social construction of 'children as carers' illustrate that researchers and pressure groups are colluding with the government's insistence that 'care in the community' must mean 'care by the community'.
At arm's length
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.7.95, 1995, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Many children with disabilities are often in care in the sense that they spend a lot of time in institutions but, sometimes, they are not formally in care because their local authority has not taken over parental responsibility for them. Asks if there are any support systems which would enable disabled children to experience family life.
Your rights to housing and support
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- Spinal Injuries Association
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 68p.,list of orgs.,disab.
- Place of publication:
- London
Practical guide aimed at older people, disabled people, sensorily impaired people, people with learning difficulties, and people with mental health problems. Sets out rights entitlements to housing and support and provides information about where these rights come from. Provides a list of organisations who provide more detailed information or who provide help in getting benefits and services.
Gone missing: a research and policy review of disabled children living away from their families
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- Who Cares Trust
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 106p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report looking at the experiences of children and young people with disabilities who spend most or all of their childhood away from their families in some form of residential provision. Contains 10 life stories of adults who lived away from home as children.