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No sign of harm: issues for disabled children communicating about abuse
- Authors:
- OOSTERHOORN Rebecca, KENDRICK Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse Review, 10(4), July 2001, pp.243-253.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article explores the views of professionals working with children using alternative/augmented communication systems on the issues relating to communication about abuse. Interviews were carried out with 20 staff from eight establishments for disabled children across Scotland. It describes the range of alternative/augmented communication systems used and the barriers to communication about abuse. Staff generally accepted the importance of providing the appropriate vocabulary in augmented communication systems, but systems that provide such vocabulary were not widely used. Staff considered that a major difficulty concerned the level of understanding disabled children might have about concepts of abuse. Staff felt that discovery of abuse was more likely to come from them noticing physical signs, behaviour or mood changes than from the child communicating explicitly about abuse. Highlights the need for appropriate training and increased coordination between social work, health and education.
Scotland's children: proposals for child care policy and law; presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Scotland by command of Her Majesty August 1993
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Scottish Office
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 56p.
- Place of publication:
- London
White paper building on what is best in Scottish child care law and suggesting some improvements. Includes chapters on: social trends and child care; rights, responsibilities and child care principles; services and support for children; children with disabilities; protection of children; children's hearings and the reporter; children and young people in trouble; and improving the quality of child care.
Child welfare policy and practice: issues and lessons emerging from current research
- Editors:
- IWANIEC Dorota, HILL Malcolm
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 304p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Explores the implications of recent research for all those concerned with child welfare and social work. Addresses topical issues as expressed by central government bodies and enquiries regarding services and policies relating to children in need of care and protection. Includes papers on: issues emerging from child care research post Children Act 1989; the legal and policy contexts for children's services in Scotland and Northern Ireland; the involvement of voluntary organisations in the first Scottish children's services plans; operationalising the definition of children in need from UK child care legislation; understanding and developing family support in Northern Ireland; the transition to adulthood of disabled young people in Northern Ireland; an evaluation of the Scottish pilot of the looking after children records system; educating looked after children; social work conceptions regarding black children in Scotland; the outcomes of a twenty year follow up of children who failed to thrive; communication between child and adult and the implications for use of the live link with child witnesses; and law, policy, practice and research in child and family social work.
The Children (Scotland) Act 1995: regulations and guidance; volume 1; support and protection for children and their families
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Scottish Office. Social Work Services Group
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 109p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Contains regulations and guidance on: promoting the welfare of children and families; planning children's services; providing information about services; providing accommodation; day care services; children and disability; protecting children; short-term refuges for children at risk of harm; and representations and complaints.
Children (Scotland) Act 1995: information pack
- Author:
- CHILDREN IN SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Children in Scotland
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 12 sheets in pack.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Contains 12 fact sheets on the Children (Scotland) Act 1995. Covers: childrens rights; parental responsibilities and rights and court orders; parental responsibilities orders; children's services plans; co-operation between agencies; information; children in need; children looked after, accommodation and after care; children's hearings, child protection and exclusion orders; children with and affected by disabilities; adoption; and day care for pre-school and other children.
Children in society: contemporary theory, policy and practice price
- Editors:
- FOLEY Pam, ROCHE Jeremy, TUCKER Stanley
- Publisher:
- Palgrave
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 299p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
Collection of papers providing a critical and comprehensive account of the theoretical and practical issues raised in working with children and their families. Includes chapters on: the development of child health and welfare services in England; the changing experience of childhood; the demonisation of children; racism; child care policy; children's policy in the European Union; quality of life for children; children's rights; mothers, children and healthcare at home; listening to children; community development as a strategy for empowerment; children's hearings in Scotland; parental responsibility; the impact of domestic violence on children; primary education in Scotland; children, sexual abuse and the child protection system; foster families; external influences on workplace competence; an ecological perspective on child abuse; children's health at school; theories of child development; working with disabled children; involving children and families in decision making about health; men working in child care; perspectives on parenting; and developing partnership practice.