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Update on the National Disability Information Project
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Caring for people, 8, 1991, p.9.
Summarises the Department of Health's initiative on providing information to disabled people. This includes 12 pilot "federations" of local disability information providers, which will be supported and co-ordinated by a team from the Policy Studies Institute who will also be working with national bodies.
Disability in Europe
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 26.9.91, 1991, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how Europe is addressing disability and the implications of 1992.
Information for people with disabilities
- Author:
- FLEMING Stephen
- Journal article citation:
- ReHab NetWork, 24, Winter 1991, pp.12-14.
- Publisher:
- National Vocational Rehabilitation Association
Describes recent and future developments in using information technology to provide information directly to people with disabilities and their carers; includes list of participants in the National Disability Information Project.
Adoption outcomes for children with handicaps
- Authors:
- ROSENTHAL James, GROZE Victor, AGUILAR Gloria D.
- Journal article citation:
- Child Welfare Journal, 70(6), November 1991, pp.623-636.
- Publisher:
- Child Welfare League of America
Reports on a survey of families who had adopted children with physical and learning disabilities.
PSSRU/CHE survey of private and voluntary residential care and nursing homes
- Authors:
- DARTON Robin, WRIGHT Ken
- Journal article citation:
- PSSRU Bulletin, 8, October 1991, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Personal Social Services Research Unit
Reports on a surveys carried out among private and voluntary homes and local authority residential homes, comparing characteristics of residents, dependency levels, and the relation between resident characteristics and variations in fees charged.
Paying the premium
- Author:
- WITCHER Sally
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 26.9.91, 1991, p.14.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Argues that the birth of the severe disability premium was a mistake and that the government would do well to start afresh.
Unravelling disability allowances
- Author:
- BURGESS Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.9.91, 1991, p.9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Briefly outlines the Independent Living Fund and considers the implications of its winding up in June 1993.
Right to work?
- Author:
- SCOTT Nicholas
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.9.91, 1991, p.19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The Minister for Disabled People writes in defence of the Disability Working Allowance.
Living options in practice
- Journal article citation:
- Caring for people, 6, August 1991, pp.6-7.
The Living Options Working Party in conjunction with the Prince of Wales Advisory Group on Disability aims to encourage the development of local comprehensive services for adults with severe physical disabilities and to enable users to participate in planning. Describes 3 projects.
Still caring
- Authors:
- WRIGHT Fay, ALISON Virginia
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.8.91, 1991, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on research carried out by Age Concern and the Spastics Society into older people caring for an adult disabled child.