Focuses on thinking inclusively when designing, planning and providing services for disabled children. Addresses key issues such as: communication; family support; protection; confidence in services; advocacy; children's rights; and anti oppressive practice. Draws on disabled young people's own experiences of health, education and social welfare systems and offers explanations for continued prejudice against disabled people in an age of equal opportunity.
Focuses on thinking inclusively when designing, planning and providing services for disabled children. Addresses key issues such as: communication; family support; protection; confidence in services; advocacy; children's rights; and anti oppressive practice. Draws on disabled young people's own experiences of health, education and social welfare systems and offers explanations for continued prejudice against disabled people in an age of equal opportunity.
Subject terms:
physical disabilities, planning, social care provision, user views, young people, advocacy, anti-discriminatory practice, anti-oppressive practice, child protection, children, childrens rights, equal opportunities;
hospital social work, medical social work, medical social workers, looked after children, mental health problems, mental health services, multidisciplinary services, offenders, older people, physical disabilities, private foster care, residential care, residential child care, registers, social work, social work education, social worker-service user relationships, terminal illness, user participation, transracial adoption, transracial foster care, visual impairment, youth justice, anti-discriminatory practice, black and minority ethnic people, case records, care homes, child protection, community care, children, employment, equal opportunities;