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Combining work and care: working parents of disabled children
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The pressures and challenges associated with the care of disabled children are well documented but little is known about how these parents combine paid work with caring. Summarises a study which analysed detailed accounts of parents from 40 families who are combining employment with care of disabled children.
Caring to work: accounts of working parents of disabled children
- Authors:
- KAGAN Carolyn, LEWIS Suzan, HEATON Patricia
- Publisher:
- Family Policy Studies Centre
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 63p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report of a study looking at looking at how parents of disabled children combine work and caring.
Changing weights and measures: disability and child poverty
- Author:
- BURCHARDT Tania
- Journal article citation:
- Poverty, 123, Winter 2006, pp.6-9.
- Publisher:
- Child Poverty Action Group
There has been a fall in child poverty from its peak of one in three children in 1998/99. The author looks at how children of disabled parents and disabled children themselves have fared relative to children not affected by disability.
Promising the world
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.02.05, 2005, pp.28-30.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The document 'Improving the life chances of disabled people' sets out the governments vision disabled people to improve quality of life and ensure disabled people are respected and included as equal members of society. The long term strategy is outlined under four main headings: independent living; support for families of young disabled children; transition into adulthood; support and incentives for getting and staying in employment. Discusses whether the plan can deliver.
Credit is not enough
- Author:
- SALE Anabel Unity
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.3.03, 2003, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
In April, parents of disabled children will receive more help with child care costs to allow them the option of gaining paid work. Looks at the changes in tax credit and the lack of suitable child care which may hinder the effectiveness of improved child tax credits.
Disability and transition to adulthood: achieving independent living
- Authors:
- HENDEY Nicola, PASCALL Gillian
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 47p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Both government and the disability movement advocate independent living for disabled adults. However, research has shown that young people growing up with disability face problems leaving the family home, and accessing housing, education, employment and income to meet their needs. The study examines what difficulties they faced in transition to adulthood and what helped them achieve this.
Employment change and the role of the medical home for married and single-mother families with children with special health care needs
- Authors:
- DERIGNE Leaanne, PORTERFIELD Shirley
- Journal article citation:
- Social Science and Medicine, 70(4), February 2010, pp.631-641.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
The authors hypothesised that whether or not a child with special health care needs usual source of care meets the criteria for a “medical home” influences parents’ employment decisions. This study included 38,569 children with special health care needs from birth to age 17 surveyed in the 2005-2006 US National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs. The employment model is estimated using multinomial logistic regression with the choice of a parent to maintain current employment, reduce hours, or stop working as the dependent variable. Independent variables were those characterising the needs of the child, the resources of the family, and the socio-demographic characteristics of the family. Components of the medical home variable included: having a usual source of care; family centred care; care coordination services; and receipt of needed referrals. Half of the children met criteria in all four facets. The relative risk of a parent choosing to cut their hours rather than maintain them decreased by 51% if the child had a medical home. The relative risk of choosing to stop work rather than not change decreased by about 64%. Care coordination services in particular reduced the odds of changing employment status. The authors conclude that the medical home is a moderating factor in parental decisions concerning change in employment status.
A question of sport
- Author:
- VERERS Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.6.07, 2007, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
To mark National Childcare Week, the author asks whether the measures to make it easier for the parents of disabled children to return to work go far enough.
Helter skelter: families, disabled children and the benefit system
- Author:
- PRESTON Gabrielle
- Publisher:
- London School of Economics. Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 87p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Families with disabled children are susceptible to poverty because low income is compounded by high costs. Combing caring with employment is extremely difficult, so families are heavily reliant upon benefits. But do disability benefits provide financial security for families who are susceptible to high levels of poverty and social exclusion? This qualitative study, based on semi-structured interviews with 20 families who have a disabled child or children, investigates their experience of applying for disability living allowance (DLA) and how they use additional benefit income. Families report that DLA makes a significant difference, not just for the disabled child but for the whole family. However, the fact that DLA is repeatedly downrated or withdrawn generates considerable fluctuations in income and high levels of stress and ill health. The report outlines issues that must be addressed if reduce poverty amongst disabled children is to be reduced.
Parenting and employment decisions of parents with a preschool child with a disability
- Authors:
- CUSKELLY Monica, PULMAN Lara, HAYES Alan
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 23(4), December 1998, pp.319-332.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Twenty couples, each with a young child with a disability, and 20 matched couples with a normally developing child were interviewed about their current employment status, their reasons for their status and their attitudes towards parenting.