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Think parent: supporting disabled adults as parents
- Authors:
- OLSEN Richard, TYERS Helen
- Publisher:
- National Family and Parenting Institute
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 95p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The key messages of the report include: supportive practice with disabled parents will often involve working closely with professionals in other agencies; disabled parents want support that is timely, appropriate, and flexible and which fits in with, rather than undermines, family life; disabled parents are a diverse group, not only in terms of their impairments and family situation, but in terms of the way they see professionals as helping them. A one-size-fits-all approach to supporting disabled parents will not address this diversity. Good practice may involve large and complex packages of support, but may also include low-cost imaginative solutions to particular problems. Support should be needs-led; disabled parents' perceptions of any difficulties, and their preferred way of solving them, should be at the centre of the relationship between professionals and parents. Support should be flexible enough to respond quickly to the predictable and unpredictable changes in family circumstances as children grow up. The report includes sections on: ·the legislative and policy context; what disabled parents have to say about good practice; what research from a social model of disability perspective has to say about good practice with disabled parents; and strategic issues in the development of policies regarding supporting disabled parents. It also has a section on examples of improving practice, which covers a wide spectrum of social work tasks including referral, assessment service provision and review. It ends with information about a number of other organisations that may be able to provide information, advice and support to disabled parents.
Threshold: determining the extent of impairment to children's development
- Authors:
- LITTLE Michael, AXFORD Nick, MORPETH Louise
- Publisher:
- Warren House
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 78p.
- Place of publication:
- Totnes
This practice tool helps practitioners to collect information about a child's health and development and to analyse it in a logical sequence that identifies the type and seriousness of impairment to development. Weighed alongside other criteria, the results help to improve decisions about if and how to intervene in a child's life. The tool seeks to improve the consistency of practice decisions, both in relation to an individual practitioner's caseload and across children's services. To that end, the tool encourages greater consultation about difficult judgements. The tool also helps practitioners evaluate their own practice.
A lot to say: a guide for social workers, personal advisors and others working with disabled children and young people with communication impairments
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- SCOPE
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 59p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This publication offers advice and information to social workers, Connexions personal advisors and others working with children and young people who have communication impairments. It will be of use in a number of settings, health, social services, education, and private and voluntary sector agencies. It is aimed at professionals who are not specialists in communication impairments, but who have responsibilities to assess the needs, and seek the views, of this important group of children and young people.
Assessing children in need and their families: practice guidance
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 141p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This practice guidance, a companion volume to the guidance in the 'Framework for the assessment of children in need and their families', starts by covering the key theories, research findings and practise wisdom that have underpinned the development of the Assessment Framework. There follows specific knowledge and guidance about working with black and minority ethnic children and their families, and with disabled children and their families. Concludes by outlining the resources which can be used to support staff in their practice and in their professional development.
Every child is special: placing disabled children for permanence
- Author:
- COUSINS Jennifer
- Publisher:
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 71p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This Good Practice Guide tracks the converging processes of planning for a permanent home for disabled children, and recruiting suitable families. It covers: assessing and communicating with children; recruiting and assessing families and making links; planning permanence; profiling and featuring children; and supporting placements. It examines some of the organisational structures that form the context of this work and highlights the changes that are necessary if more disabled children are to have the security of a permanent family. The guide provides an overview of disabled children 'in need' and 'looked after' and describes current models of disability. It acknowledges the problem of definitions and terminology and discusses impairment in terms of language and popular culture. Relevant legal issues are also briefly explained.