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Advocacy schemes : a way to help residents and staff
- Author:
- GREENGROSS Sally
- Journal article citation:
- Residential and Day Care Weekly, 1.4.88, 1988, pp.8-9.
Advocates can enrich the quality of elderly residents lives, and volunteers organised by groups such as Age Concern may have an important role when s1 and s2 of the Disabled Persons Act are implemented.
Direct experience: a guide for councils on the implementation of direct payments in children's services
- Authors:
- CARLIN Jeanne, LENEHAN Christine
- Publisher:
- Council for Disabled Children
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 62p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Direct payments to parents of disabled children and to 16 and 17 year old disabled young people in their own right, form a key part of the government’s strategy for supporting families. This guide is based on the experience of 13 councils who met with the Council for Disabled Children over an 18-month period. It details their experiences, concerns, developments and successes. The guide looks at the reality of implementing direct payments services within a children’s legislative context. It will be useful for all councils working with direct payments, children’s disability services and the advice and advocacy services that support them.
Policy politics and the silencing of 'voice'
- Author:
- SCOTT-HILL Mairian
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 30(3), July 2002, pp.397-409.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This article argues that socio-political understandings of disability have not impacted on legal discourse, this article asks two questions. The author questions why a substantive solution, framed by rights discourse, to the problems of disabled people 's oppression and how perceptions of struggle, representation and participation in disability politics influence the way in which it engages with matters of policy. The article suggests that both questions ultimately concern discourse in situations where struggle and contest are highlighted. It argues that, in the search for solutions to social oppression, disabled people would gain much from developing a deeper understanding of "relational politics" that moves beyond perceptions of disability as power and dominance.
Mental health services users and disability: implications for future strategies
- Authors:
- BERESFORD Peter, HARRISON Chris, WILSON Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 30(3), July 2002, pp.387-396.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This article investigates what appears to be an ambiguity in the approach of disability policy and disability politics to mental health service users. Mental health policy, which has always had powers to restrict their rights, is now increasingly associating mental health service users/survivors with "dangerousness" and focusing on them as a threat to "public safety". Mental health service users"/survivors" organisations, which have so far tended to focus their activities on mental health policy and partnership approaches to making change,are now beginning to look to disability policy and politics to develop their thinking and activities for the future, while retaining their own distinct and independent identity. This has important implications for disability studies, policy and politics.
Social work practice with people with disabilities in the era of disability rights
- Authors:
- BEAULAURIER Richard L., TAYLOR Samuel H.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Health Care, 32(4), 2001, pp.67-91.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Social workers, especially those in health care and rehabilitation systems, must consider practice changes necessitated by recent legislation and the growing activism of disability rights groups. The authors review from an American perspective, essential elements of the emerging sense of both oppression and empowerment that is occurring for many people with disabilities and groups; consider key aspects of ADA and other pertinent legislation that place new emphases on the self-determination of people with disabilities; and discuss what implications changing practice roles might have for social workers' relationships and patterns of interaction with other professionals in medical, health care and rehabilitation settings. The authors also outline a beginning effort at designing a conceptual framework. This framework may also be useful in work with people who have other long term care needs and chronic conditions.
Direct payments and older people: the principles of independent living
- Authors:
- HASLER Frances, ZARB Gerry
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 18(2), 2000, pp.7-12.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
The main part of the paper focuses on the extension of the Community Care (Direct Payments Act) to older people, drawing on research carried out by PSI and others, the recent practice guide on local authority implementation of direct payments produced by PSI and NCIL, as well as as NCIL's development work on IL and older people. It then considers the specific issues of : interpreting key direct payment criteria such as consent and 'willing and able'; models of assessment compatible with IL principles and putting in place appropriate forms of advice and support to enable older people to manage their own support arrangements.
Neither seen or heard
- Author:
- EATON Lynn
- Journal article citation:
- Search, 30, Summer 1998, pp.32-35.
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
The first studies from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Disabled Children and Young Person's Programme are now starting to be published. The author examines what they reveal about this often overlooked group.
Disabled children's rights: a practical guide
- Author:
- JONES Hazel
- Publisher:
- Save the Children Sweden
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 98p.
- Place of publication:
- Stockholm
The purpose of this practical guide is to provide a tool for the use by everyone, whether governmental, or non-governmental, local or international, disabled people's, children's or parents' organisations in becoming more aware of the situation of disabled children and in taking action to promote the rights of disabled children everywhere.
Children with fragile X syndrome: a parents' guide
- Author:
- DIXON Webber Jayne
- Publisher:
- Woodbine House
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 470p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bethesda, MD
Guide for parents of children with fragile X syndrome, a genetic condition which can cause physical and learning disabilities. Describes the syndrome, then looks at topics including the emotions of parents; genetics and genetic counselling; health of children with the syndrome; daily care; family life; child development; education; legal issues; and advocacy.