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Approaches to case management for people with disabilities
- Author:
- PILLING Doria
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 216p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at why case management has come to assume such importance in community care policies. Surveys a number of current and recent case management and coordination projects and services in Britain, describing their main features, and the differences between them, and their successes and failures. Examines the available evidence on whether any type of case management is particularly beneficial. Finally, evaluates two specific projects, focusing on user views.
Care managers can be champions for direct payments
- Author:
- BEWLEY Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 6(4), June 2000, pp.13-16.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Since the introduction of direct payments in 1997, only limited progress has been made in introducing schemes for people with learning difficulties. This article reviews the developments and the challenges, including the difficulties caused by publicity over the South Lanarkshire case. Care managers should do more to support and promote direct payments which are "exciting, challenging, innovative tools that help us towards empowerment and equality".
Care management pilots: annual report April 1991-March 1992
- Author:
- HAMPSHIRE. Social Services Department
- Publisher:
- Hampshire. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 200p.
- Place of publication:
- Winchester
Reports from 4 pilot care management projects looking at what has been learnt from them, and comparing the different models used.
Developing new lifestyles with disabled people
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
There is growing consensus that daytime opportunities for people with learning difficulties and disabled people need to be improved. People want to work, learn and enjoy a greater variety of leisure interests, spending more time in ordinary community settings with old and new friends. Supporting people to achieve this - in essence, a more ordinary lifestyle - is the challenge for service providers. This project implemented recommendations from the national Changing Days Project about how to improve people's lifestyles. Focusing on people with learning difficulties and disabled people living in four residential homes run by the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust.
Unlocking the future: developing new lifestyles with people who have complex disabilities
- Editors:
- McINTOSH Barbara, WHITTAKER Andrea
- Publisher:
- King's Fund Centre
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 212p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Explores ways in which services need to change to provide people with learning difficulties and very high support needs with lifestyles based on their own wishes and needs. Provides practical guidance for providing person centred services that will result in a better quality of life for users. Includes chapters on:planning; communication; health care in the community; education; transition to adulthood; supported employment; leisure; day care; managing changes in lifestyle; measuring progress; and care management and planning circles.
Keeping consumers at the centre of planning
- Authors:
- BRANDON David, HAWKES Annie
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 6(1), September 1999, pp.8-14.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
The authors suggest that assessment and care planning needs a system which can be understood by services users as well as by professionals. They show how the 'four magnets' - control, skills, pain and contact - can be unifying and holistic.
Round pegs in round holes: a social work care management service for 'vulnerable adults' in West Oxfordshire
- Author:
- GILDERS Ian
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 9(3), 1997, pp.45-58.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Over recent years many Social Services Departments have tended towards specialist teams and away from genericism. This article describes a pilot post of social worker
Good practice in child protection: a manual for professionals
- Editors:
- OWEN Hilary, PRITCHARD Jacki
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 240p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Practical manual for use by all professionals involved in child abuse cases. Includes sections on: the Children Act 1989; recognition of abuse; preventing female genital mutilation; children with disabilities; communicating effectively with children about abuse; promoting inter professional collaboration; child protection conferences; child protection plans; the giving of evidence by victims of child abuse; child protection from the police perspective; and supervision and support of social workers and other professionals working in the child protection field.
Supporting rural communities
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 22.2.90, 1990, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Summarises a range of services provided by shire counties to their rural areas.