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A resource pack: developing a key worker service for families with a disabled child
- Authors:
- MUKHERJEE Suzanne, et al
- Publisher:
- Care Co-ordination Network UK
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 91p.
- Place of publication:
- York
This resource pack offers research-based advice on how to develop and implement a key worker services for families with a disabled child. The pack takes the reader through each phase of the process, with examples of activities and exercises which can assist in planning and decision making for each phase. Issues addressed include: what the services should look like; managing change; how to support the service; and facilitating multi-agency steering groups. The pack is aimed at managers and development workers within education services, health services, social services and voluntary organisations.
A resource pack: developing a key worker service for families with a disabled child
- Authors:
- MUKHERJEE Suzanne, et al
- Publisher:
- University of York. Social Policy Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 72p.
- Place of publication:
- York
This resource pack offers research-based advice on how to develop and implement a key worker services for families with a disabled child. The pack takes the reader through each phase of the process, with examples of activities and exercises which can assist in planning and decision making for each phase. Issues addressed include: what the services should look like; managing change; how to support the service; and facilitating multi-agency steering groups. The pack is aimed at managers and development workers within education services, health services, social services and voluntary organisations.
Support and access in sports and leisure provision
- Author:
- DEVAS Magda
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(2), March 2003, pp.231-245.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper will look at different ways of enabling people with learning difficulties to engage in leisure opportunities: the Support Model and the Access Model. These models will be put in their social context and then critiqued. The support model will be be contextualised in the theory of normalisation, access in disability theory. The support worker role will be shown to be useful in motivating people with learning difficlties into new activities, as well as having a protecting element, and unwittingly, disguise the level of discrimination people with learning difficulties are subject to. The access worker role will be shown to have strengths in understanding discrimination. With this analysis, it has the potential to dismantle disabling practices. However, the needs of people with learning difficulties have ramifications for disability theory. In practice, that means that ideas of self-advocacy need to be taken on board. Through interviews with sports personnel, social workers and people with learning difficulties, the implications of creating fully comprehensive access will be examined. I will conclude that both effective support and comprehensive access must be in place before people with learning difficulties are able to make a meaningful choice as to how they are enabled to participate in sports. It is only at that point of choice that the two models become complementary rather than competing discourses of provision.