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Promising the world
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.02.05, 2005, pp.28-30.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The document 'Improving the life chances of disabled people' sets out the governments vision disabled people to improve quality of life and ensure disabled people are respected and included as equal members of society. The long term strategy is outlined under four main headings: independent living; support for families of young disabled children; transition into adulthood; support and incentives for getting and staying in employment. Discusses whether the plan can deliver.
Participation for a change: disabled young people lead the way
- Author:
- BADHAM Bill
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Society, 18(2), April 2004, pp.143-154.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Virtually every Government programme for children and every Government Department in the UK is expected to involve children and young people in its policy development and service delivery (Children and Young People's Unit, 2001). It is the new orthodoxy. Yet, hard questions are often avoided when reciting the mantra of participation. Why bother? What has changed as a result? This paper first seeks to explore the constraints and limitations of this drive in public policy in England. Secondly, by looking at one specific example, it considers elements of practice to enable participation to be effective as a catalyst for change. Third, it proposes a framework that sets out an agenda for social inclusion that is itself influenced by children and young people and not reliant on the changing and often clashing fashions in Government.
Higher benefits and better indicators need to cut poverty claim charities
- Author:
- WELLARD Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.10.03, 2003, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at the governments progress so far in tackling poverty light of its fifth annual poverty report 'Opportunity for all'. Also highlights areas that are not included in the poverty indicators.
Decade of delay
- Author:
- HEALY Pat
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 3.12.92, 1992, p.10.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Reports on Jack Ashley's fight for disability rights as the United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons draws to a close.
Services for disabled children: a review of services for disabled children and their families
- Author:
- AUDIT COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Audit Commission
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 56p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
This Audit Commission study began by listening to disabled children’s experiences and those of their families, understanding that parents and carers, brothers and sisters each have their own perspectives and priorities. Over 240 disabled children and young people and their siblings, parents and carers spoke to them five areas. They had a broad range of needs, ages and backgrounds. They worked in partnership with an advisory group of disabled children and young people throughout the study. The AC took the views and ideas raised by users of the services back to service providers, and explored managers’ and practitioners’ perspectives on what was working well, where improvement is needed, and the opportunities for, and barriers to, change.
Access and achievement or social exclusion?: are the government's policies working for disabled children and their families?
- Author:
- RUSSELL Philipa
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Society, 17(3), June 2003, pp.215-225.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The past decade has seen significant developments in policy and practice for disabled children and their families. In particular there is a new focus upon access and inclusion, with increasing awareness of the need to see disabled children and families as active partners within policy development and implementation. There is growing awareness of the implications of disability discrimination legislation across children's services and of the importance of improving arrangements for early identification and intervention to maximise disabled children's participation within mainstream services. The National Service Framework, the advent of Children's Trusts and a new Special Education Needs (SEN) Action Programme, together with the introduction of direct payments, give encouraging messages about multi-agency working and a strategic and joined up approach to childhood disability. However, many disabled children and their families continue to experience discrimination, poverty and social exclusion. The challenge for the Government is to ensure that disabled children are mainstreamed across all policy initiatives and to recognise the talents and ambitions of disabled children and their families in service design and implementation.
Children, poverty and disability
- Author:
- REITH Lorna
- Journal article citation:
- Poverty, 109, Summer 2001, pp.10-13.
- Publisher:
- Child Poverty Action Group
The Government has made an ambitious commitment to eradicating child poverty within a target of 20 years and has introduced a range of policy initiatives and increases in benefits. Asks whether these improvements will reach disabled children or children in families where a parent is long term sick or disabled, and looks at what the Government is doing to address their needs.
The SEN Bill: fine principles but will it work in practice?
- Author:
- ASPIS Simone
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 14(3), January 2001, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
As the Special Educational Needs (SEN) Bill reaches its final stages in parliament, the author argues that although the Bill gives disabled children and those with special education needs the right to mainstream education, mixing SEN and disability could lead to confusion and to some children, particularly those in care, failing to benefit.
New ambitions, old dreams - the green paper on welfare reform
- Author:
- GRAY Jim
- Journal article citation:
- SCOLAG Journal, 252, June 1998, pp.91-94.
- Publisher:
- ScoLAG(Scottish Legal Action Group)
The author scrutinises the Government's green paper, 'A new contract for welfare', and laments the demise of the "cradle to the grave" philosophy which underpinned the welfare state from its inception.
Reducing the risk factor for disabled children
- Author:
- CROSS Merry
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, March 1998, pp.6-7.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
As the Government publishes a consultation document on new child protection guidance, the author argues that the system is failing disabled children partly because of a lack of adequate or appropriate risk assessment methods. Says this is an area that can be fairly easily remedied with a new tool to be used before referral to child protection.