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Inter-agency working with disabled children and young people: conference report; Llandudno, 11th April 2002
- Author:
- INTER-AGENCY WORKING WITH DISABLED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
- Publisher:
- Wales. Welsh Assembly Government
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 33p.
The aims of this conference where: to share good practice; to enable policy makers and practitioners to reflect on practice in their own agencies in light of current research on what works, and children and young people's perspectives; and to contribute to the wider issues of policy development in this rapidly changing area of social welfare practice.
Engaging black and minority ethnic families in policy development and implementation: black and minority ethnic families policy forum; deiscussion paper 6
- Authors:
- BIGNALL Tracey, BOX Leandra
- Publisher:
- Race Equality Unit
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Place of publication:
- London
This discussion paper from the Race Equality Unit, black and minority ethnic families policy forum, explores engaging black and minority ethnic families in policy development and implementation. Topics include: what is meant by consultation?; government policies; quality protects; practice examples.
Enabling change
- Author:
- HOLMSTROM Radhika
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 16, July 2002, pp.15-17.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Looks at the issues facing the External Working Group on disabled children which is helping to feed into the Children's National Service Framework.
Support for disabled people: a response from the Children's Society
- Author:
- CRONIN Natalie
- Publisher:
- Children's Society
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A new contract for welfare: support for disabled people; presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Social Security by Command of Her Majesty, October 1998
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Social Security
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 46p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Consultation paper setting out proposals on benefits for disabled people and people with a long term illness.
Dependency in early life
- Author:
- MOSS Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 1(1), 1983, pp.8-11.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Research has shown that dependency is not an immutable fixed quality of an individual, but can be varied in response to external factors. Dependency has undesirable consequences not only for the dependent person, but also for those whose caring role carries its own, socially derived, forms of dependency; dependency, therefore, becomes inextricably linked with the role of women in society. A more informed discussion is called for to explore the implications of setting, as a policy goal, the maximisation of the independence of dependent groups. Key practical issues in this context are mobility, income and housing. There is also the need for a radical redefinition of the work-family relationship.
Working together for change
- Author:
- McKEEVER Brendan
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 68(9), September 2005, pp.418-420.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Engaging those who provide services with those who actually receive services has often been problematic. This opinion piece is based on a housing campaign - the Homes Fit For Children Campaign - and shows how an issue can be raised to a political level. It is an illustration of good practice, demonstrating how occupational therapists, working together with parents were able to have a pivotal role in change resulting in the abolition of the means test for the Disabled Facilities Grant in Northern Ireland.
It doesn't happen to disabled children: child protection and disabled children; repoprt of the National Working Group on Child Protection and Disability
- Author:
- NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN
- Publisher:
- National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 84p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
All the evidence about disabled children’s experiences suggests that they are more vulnerable to abuse than non-disabled children. For the last twenty years or so, a number of individuals and organisations have struggled to bring this to the attention of government, local authorities and the major children’s organisations. The National Working Group on Child Protection and Disability believes that comprehensive action is required in order to protect disabled children from abuse. The first two recommendations reflect this, calling as they do for a review of the current child protection system and the development of a national strategy for the safeguarding of disabled children. However, within these two main recommendations, smaller steps are identified that would help promote the safeguarding of disabled children even if they were implemented without a major review or national strategy.
Paying to care: the cost of childhood disability
- Authors:
- DOBSON Barbara, MIDDLETON Sue
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 58p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
The benefits system recognises that disabled people incur extra costs but little is known about the nature and extent of these costs, particularly for children. This report describes minimum essential budget standards for children of differing ages and with a range of disabilities. Using a new and innovative approach, the budget standards were drawn up by almost 300 parents of severely disabled children. The study concludes that the minimum cost of raising a severely disabled child is, on average, three times more than for a child without a disability. The authors describe the priorities and experiences which influenced the parents decisions. They examine the implications of the findings for benefit provision and service delivery.
We're in this together: conversations with families in caring relationships
- Authors:
- BECKER Saul, SILBURN Richard
- Publisher:
- Carers National Association
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 89p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Study looking at caring relationships and focusing on parents caring for a disabled child, husbands, wives or partners caring for the other partner, and adult sons and daughters caring for an older, frail parent. Draws directly on detailed conversations with carers and the people they care for, in order to provide a picture of what it is like to give and receive full time personal care in Britain today. Concludes with a series of policy recommendations designed to support caring relationships.