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The Human Rights Act 1998: the social services function of local authorities: implications arising from the Human Rights Act 1998; no.3
- Author:
- TEASDALE Jonathan
- Publisher:
- Local Government Information Unit
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 26p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Briefing paper exploring the effects of the Human Rights Act 1998 on social services provision, and looking specifically at: children's services; adult services (including residential care); services for disabled people and people with mental health problems; availability and rationing of medical treatment; and registration and closure of residential homes.
The American adoption of Indian children from Mother Theresa's orphanages
- Authors:
- GOODMAN Joan F., KIM Stacy
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption Quarterly, 3(2), 1999, pp.5-27.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia
This study explores the family backgrounds and personal motives of 70 families who adopted Indian children from orphanages in the late 1970s and 1980s. Asks what kind of people seek to adopt children of another ethnic group and colour who also are highly likely to have chronic disabilities-physical, emotional, behavioural, intellectual.
The social services function of local authorities: implications arising from the Human Rights Act 1998
- Author:
- TEASDALE Jonathan
- Publisher:
- Local Government Information Unit
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 26p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Briefing paper exploring the effects of the Human Rights Act 1998 on social services provision, and looking specifically at: children's services; adult services (including residential care); services for disabled people and people with mental health problems; availability and rationing of medical treatment; and registration and closure of residential homes.
The adoption experience: families who give children a second chance
- Author:
- MORRIS Ann
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 223p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Uses real life stories to take the reader through every stage of the adoption process. Aims to inform professionals, adoptive parents, potential adopters and all those whose lives are affected by adoption. Contains chapters on: first meetings and first months; adopting babies and toddlers; adopting schoolchildren; taking on young people; adopting a disabled child or a child with learning difficulties; adopting an emotionally, physically or sexually abused child; single, unmarried, and gay adoptive parents and adoption over birth by choice; adoption and race; openness; attachment; adoption breakdown; tracing; a birth mother's story; and an adoptee's story.