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Disabled Parents Network information briefings: no. 3 services: how to find out about services
- Author:
- DISABLED PARENTS NETWORK
- Publisher:
- Disabled Parents Network
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 31p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Some disabled parents have a full community care assessment of their needs by social services, resulting in a care plan. Other parents contact social services for help only when they need to get hold of particular information, items or services. Specialist teams within health and social care services should be able to help with additional needs.
Developing service user involvement in the South Korean disability services: lessons from the experience of community care policy and practice in UK
- Authors:
- KIM Deug Yong, ROSS Liz
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 16(2), March 2008, pp.188-196.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This paper considers the scope for the integration of service user involvement within services for people with disabilities in South Korea at a time of rapid development in social policy and practice. Using the UK experience of introducing community care and a mixed economy of service provision over the last 14 years, this paper considers the barriers to service user involvement inherent in the South Korean context and concludes that in a society where there is a shortage of services and a provider-orientated delivery system where most services are delivered by voluntary organisations, more public services are needed and a ‘democratic’ rather than a consumerist approach to user involvement is required. Some elements of the UK system could inform the development of a systematic approach to user involvement in South Korea, notably the right to assessment within a care management structure, the setting of quality care standards and inspection processes and a complaints procedure.
Understanding community care: a guide for social workers
- Author:
- McDONALD Ann
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 216p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
- Edition:
- 2nd
Second edition of text introducing community care services for people with mental health problems, older people, substance misusers, people with HIV/AIDS, and disabled people.
Disabled Parents Network information briefings: no. 4 getting your needs assessed
- Author:
- DISABLED PARENTS NETWORK
- Publisher:
- Disabled Parents Network
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 19p.
- Place of publication:
- London
By law, every disabled person has the right to ask their local council to assess their need for community care. The aim should be to help disabled people to live independently and in their own homes wherever possible. The government gives guidance to local authorities about assessing disabled people’s needs and whether and how those needs should be met. A disabled person’s social roles, including parenting, should be part of a community care assessment.
Disabled Parents Network information briefings: no. 5 making a care plan to meet your needs
- Author:
- DISABLED PARENTS NETWORK
- Publisher:
- Disabled Parents Network
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Following assessment, a care plan is made to show how users assessed health and social care needs will be met. This briefing also covers service costs, charges and review.
Home comforts: home support for disabled older people
- Author:
- BEATTIE Alistair
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 24p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at the needs of older disabled people in London, the care and support they do or do not receive, and at aids and adaptations available from the London Boroughs.
Disabled children in Britain: a re-analysis of the OPCS disability survey
- Authors:
- GORDON David, PARKER Roy, LOUGHRAN Frank
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 312p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Presents a re-analysis of the large amounts of data (c.1600 interviews) collected during the two adult and two children's surveys conducted for the OPCS, 1985 - 1988, to exploit it more fully than the results already published by OPCS. Enormous computational problems have been resolved, and the design differences between the surveys have been taken into account. Even the definition of disability varies. Covers multiple disability, poverty and disability, allocation criteria, service provision and unmet needs, and many aspects of the care of disabled children with their families or in residential homes.
Inspection of community services for physically disabled people in the London Borough of Wandsworth: 28 June - 12 July 1995
- Authors:
- BOOTH L., STRETTLE T
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 49p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Managing vocational rehabilitation
- Authors:
- TEOH Sing Siong, OSBORNE Howard, MILNE Alexandra
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 179p.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Provides comprehensive guidance on how to plan, develop and manage vocational rehabilitation for the disabled and people with learning difficulties. Provides examples of typical operational policies, assessment techniques and commercial licensing agreements.
Paying for care handbook
- Authors:
- WINFIELD Helen, VAUX Gary
- Publisher:
- Child Poverty Action Group
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 463p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 6th ed.
A comprehensive, fully referenced, practical guide to social security and social services law and practice for adults needing care in England, Wales and Scotland. It includes coverage of services, welfare benefits and other financial help for adults, and their carers, needing care at home or in supported housing; how charges are means-tested, administered and enforced; the duties of social services and health authorities; challenging decisions, enforcing rights and common problems. This updated edition also includes information on individual budgets and purchasing your own care.