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Don't push me around: disabled children's experiences of wheelchair services in the UK
- Authors:
- SHARMA Neera, MORRISON Jan
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 36p.
- Place of publication:
- Ilford
This report looks at the state of wheelchair provision to young people. The report finds that a lack of money and a postcode lottery of provision are having a disastrous impact on the lives of many disabled children across the UK. The underfunding means that young people who need wheelchairs are generally only given the most basic of equipment, despite the fact this regularly fails to meet their needs. At the same time, lengthy waiting times for assessments and provision mean that disabled children's life chances and childhoods are even further diminished.
Equipment failure
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.8.02, 2002, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at a recent report by the Audit Commission, 'Fully Equipped 2002', which found that service users face long delays for equipment of often poor quality, while many are excluded due to stringent eligibility criteria.
Workout
- Author:
- MORAN Kathy
- Journal article citation:
- Roof, July 2001, p.38.
- Publisher:
- Shelter
Adaptations can make a huge difference to the lives of disabled people and their families, but getting the money to pay for them is an uphill battle.
Glimmers of hope
- Author:
- BIRCH Julian
- Journal article citation:
- Roof, July 2001, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Shelter
Argues that the system designed to help disabled people adapt their homes can work brilliantly, but all too often it is failing them.
Access to work: the end of the success story?
- Author:
- GOSS Nick
- Journal article citation:
- ReHab NetWork, 41, Spring 1996, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- National Vocational Rehabilitation Association
Reports on the future of the Employment Services Access To Work Scheme. Access to Work (ATW) pays for any additional support services which disabled people may need to find and retain work.
Home front
- Author:
- EATON Lynn
- Journal article citation:
- Search, 31, Winter 1998, pp.28-30.
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
The parents of severely disabled children may face a constant battle in getting proper aids and adaptations in their homes, but success can make a crucial difference to families' lives. The author visited two families who have met with varying success in getting their needs met.
Funding adaptations: the need to cooperate
- Authors:
- HEYWOOD Frances, SMART Gavin
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 201p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Presents an in depth picture of how aids and adaptations for disabled people are funded in England and Wales. Brings together information from a wide range of funders. Makes recommendations for legislation, policy clarification, training, research and resources.
Funding and managing the adaptation of owner occupied homes for people with physical disabilities
- Authors:
- MACKINTOSH Sheila, LEATHER Philip
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 2(4), July 1994, pp.229-239.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Adapted housing is an important element of community care for people with physical disabilities. Draws on the findings of several research studies to assess the implementation of the new disabled facilities grant introduced in 1990.
Carrying out adaptations: a good practice guide for registered social landlords
- Authors:
- APPLETON Nigel, LEATHER Philip
- Publisher:
- Housing Corporation
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 68p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Guidance providing principles and advice for registered social landlords when carrying out adaptations to housing for older people or disabled people. Designed to be translated into the context of local conditions and constraints. Includes sections on: a user centred approach; setting the policy; liaison and inter agency working; providing resources; experience and expertise; identifying need; managing the process; assessment, evaluation and setting priorities; management of the technical process; VAT; targets and competition; claiming funding; getting value from adaptations; responsibilities as landlord for adaptations undertaken by others; and user participation and consultation.
Adapting for community care, part 2
- Author:
- ADAMS Jo
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 59(4), April 1996, pp.185-187.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article examines the provision and funding of home adaptions for people with physical disabilities. Part 1 concluded that people with disabilities receive an adaption service that is skewed according to housing tenure and local policy implementation. Part 2 examines the response of one county's social services department and its senior grade occupational therapists in the assessment and allocation of a home adaption service across housing tenure and across the county. It investigates the role of the community occupational therapists in assessing home adaptions across that county and the shortcomings in the Disabled Facilities Grant system as documented by service users. Recommendations are made for improving the adaption service across housing tenure for people with disabilities.