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Carers' benefits
- Author:
- CULLEN Paddy
- Journal article citation:
- Benefits, 28, April 2000, pp.35-37.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Provides a basic guide to the benefits available to carers and how these relate to the benefits claimed by the disabled person.
Council tax in Scotland: a guide for people who have special needs and their carers
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
When I'm away from home
- Author:
- CAMIS Jean
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 80p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Workbook designed to record specific information about the individual care requirements of a disabled child. Provides for comprehensive description of medical and physical needs, their routine, and for their own notes on personality, preferences and habits. Useful for the carer, the child, and to relieve the anxieties of everybody involved in entrusting the child to someone other than their primary carer.
Imagining welfare: help
- Author:
- SHAKESPEARE Tom
- Publisher:
- Venture Press/British Association of Social Workers
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 110p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Explores the social relations of care from a disability studies perspective. Discusses the concept of giving and receiving help in terms of colonialisation and of the 'other'. Describes those who receive help and the social treatment and cultural constructions which render them excluded; those who give help, whether professionals, relatives or volunteers; the relationship between helpers and the helped, particularly in its institutional forms; and suggests alternative approaches that may resolve the problematic aspects of these relationships.
Voice of experience
- Author:
- THOMPSON Audrey
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.7.00, 2000, p.16.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author talks to Francine Bates, Contact a Family's new chief executive, about why supporting families is vital.
A place for support: new policies for informal carers in long-term programmes
- Author:
- SCHUNK Michaela
- Journal article citation:
- Benefits, 28, April 2000, pp.22-25.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Reviews policy trends for informal carers which have been implemented in various countries between 1996 - 1998. The article focuses on respite care and direct payments for carers of older ill and disabled adults.
Carers and Disabled Children Act 2000: chapter 16; explanatory notes
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Carers and Disabled Children Act 2000
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Key features of the Act are to make provision about the assessment of carers' needs; to provide services to help carers; and to provide payments to carers and disabled children aged 16 or 17 in lieu of the provision of services to them.
Supporting disabled children and their families in Scotland: a review of policy and research
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Findings
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Just a shadow: a review of support for the fathers of children with disabilities
- Author:
- WEST S
- Publisher:
- Handsel Trust
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 36p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Report of research based on interviews with four fathers of children with disabilities. Reviews existing research, before discussing issues such as the fathers' perceptions of their needs, what support was considered helpful or otherwise, emotions, coping strategies, and access to services. Concludes with recommendations for future practice.