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The school lives of children and young people with a spinal cord injury
- Authors:
- KNIGHT Abigail, et al
- Publisher:
- University of London. Institute of Education. Thomas Coram Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 87p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This research study was carried out by the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, between January and July 2008. The study was funded by The Back-Up Trust, an organisation working with spinally injured adults and children, as part of their Schools Project. The main purpose of the study was to explore the experiences of children and young people with a SCI in mainstream school. This was to inform The Back-Up Trust’s Schools Project, which has the aim of improving the quality of school provision for children with a spinal cord injury. The study asked young people, parents and carers about their positive and negative experiences. It also aimed to investigate schools’ experiences of working with young people with a SCI and the challenges and factors that help them work effectively with children with a SCI.
Dementia and well-being: possibilities and challenges
- Author:
- COOK Ailsa
- Publisher:
- Dunedin Academic Press
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 90p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
In recent years, policy and legislation in both England and Scotland has sought to promote the well-being of users of health and social care services, such as people with dementia. Most recent policy across the UK has identified key objectives, attainment of which is essential to the well-being of service users as governments have introduced a range of initiatives to ensure that services deliver good outcomes to service users. To date, however, there has been very little consideration of how inclusive this agenda is to people with dementia. Ailsa Cook addresses this gap by reviewing critically recent health and social care policy in Scotland and England in light of the growing body of empirical research into the experiences and perspectives of people with dementia. She draws on this evidence to consider the particular challenges associated with delivering four key outcomes to people with dementia identified by policy makers as fundamental to well-being. These are: independence, health, choice and social inclusion. The book examines the potential for current policy proposals to meet the needs of people with diverse experiences of dementia and considers the particular issues relating to including people with dementia as partners in policy and practice - a key principle underpinning all health and social care. In so doing the book contributes a much needed policy perspective to the field of dementia, as well as providing a fresh lens through which to consider the difference that proposed policies can make to a diverse range of service users. Intended as a text for Dementia Studies and gerontology students the specific focus of this book on the inter-relationship of policy and dementia ensures its place as a key reference for policy makers and administrators assessing the impact of policies, both implemented and proposed.
Children with a spinal cord injury returning to school
- Author:
- KNIGHT Abigail
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.10.08, 2008, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Summarises the findings of a study to explore the experiences of children and young people with a spinal cord injury (SCI) in mainstream school in England and Wales. The study asked young people, parents and carers about their positive and negative experiences. It also aimed to investigate schools' experiences of working with young people with SCI and the challenges and factors that help them work effectively with these children. The study was carried out by the Thomas Coram Research Unit, the Institute of Education at the University of London, and was funded by the Back-Up Trust.