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Advocacy: power to people with disabilities
- Authors:
- BRANDON David, BRANDON Althea, BRANDON Toby
- Publisher:
- Venture Press/British Association of Social Workers
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 140p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Contains chapters on: professional advocates; service professionals; advocacy by families; self advocacy; citizen advocacy; peer advocacy; and collective advocacy.
Getting better all the time: delivering and receiving quality services: proceedings from the Shared Care UK annual conference held on 19 September 1995 at Leicester University
- Author:
- NORAH FRY RESEARCH CENTRE
- Publisher:
- Norah Fry Research Centre
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 93p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Services include breaks (respite care) and the provision of support for disabled children and their families.
All in the family: siblings and disability
- Authors:
- ATKINSON Nicola, CRAWFORTH Mavis
- Publisher:
- NCH Action for Children
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Survey focusing on the needs of brothers and sisters of children with disabilities. Looks at the additional tasks and responsibilities placed on siblings, the impact on family outings and on schooling, and at emotional stress.
Times they are a-changin'
- Author:
- BERESFORD Bryony
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.12.95, 1995, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Despite radical changes in attitudes towards disabled children, there is still much that needs to be improved. Looks at the results of research conducted by the author into the needs and circumstances of families caring for a severely disabled child.
Kith and kids
- Author:
- SONE Kendra
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.4.95, 1995, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A survey by NCH Action For children has found that siblings of children with disabilities are often overlooked. The report calls for existing services for disabled children to be extended to other family members including assessments of need and support groups.
The needs of disabled children and their families: findings
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
A national survey of over a thousand parents has explored the needs and circumstances of families caring for a severely disabled child. The research, carried out by Bryony Beresford at the Social Policy Research Unit, University of York, sought parents' views of their and their child's needs as well as their experiences as service users. Parents also reported the care demands and impact on living circumstances brought about by having a disabled child. Comparisons with data collected twenty years ago indicate little improvement in the circumstances in which families are caring for their severely disabled child.
Managing the voluntary sector: findings
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Place of publication:
- York
Voluntary organisations are sounding and acting more and more like for-profit businesses, and their distinctiveness and special fiscal privileges are increasingly questioned. In this study, Diana Leat explores differences in the skills required to manage voluntary and for-profit organisations, as seen by managers with experience in both types of organisation. She finds that there are no clear, unqualified differences but volunary organisations management does involve particular skills and constraints.
Conflict of interests
- Author:
- COHEN Phil
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.8.95, 1995, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Some activists feel the focus on young carers disempowers and detracts from the needs of disabled parents.
Voice of dissent
- Author:
- TURNER Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.8.95, 1995, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Argues that disabled parents must not be marginalised by concern over young carers.
At arm's length
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.7.95, 1995, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Many children with disabilities are often in care in the sense that they spend a lot of time in institutions but, sometimes, they are not formally in care because their local authority has not taken over parental responsibility for them. Asks if there are any support systems which would enable disabled children to experience family life.