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Health visitors are key to child-centred services
- Authors:
- CERNIK Kate, KELLY Sharon, GRIMES Bernie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Practitioner, 80(8), August 2007, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association
The Early Support Programme (ESP) was established by central government in 2004 and set out to develop better coordinated, family-focused services for young disabled children and their families across England. The programme is a collaboration between the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Department of Health. This article looks at the difference the Early Support Programme is bringing to the lives of disabled children and their families. It is argued that health visitors are uniquely placed to provide these services.
Service coordination in family-centered childhood disability services: quality assessment from the family perspective
- Author:
- TRUTE Barry
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 88(2), April 2007, pp.283-291.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
A research strategy for the evaluation of service coordination in family-centered childhood disability services is proposed. The strategy is consistent with Donabedian’s classic framework for applied research in health care. Emphasis is given to process and outcome indicators that offer the parent or caregiver perspective on the quality of the service. The intent is to offer a parsimonious paradigm that will facilitate the operationalization of basic components of family-centered service coordination. Further, it is hoped that the proposed paradigm will serve to advance discussion of important themes in programs of professional training of service coordinators in childhood disability services.