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Access audit handbook
- Author:
- GRANT Alison
- Publisher:
- Centre for Accessible Environments; RIBA Publishing
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 130p., DVD
- Place of publication:
- London
This is a multimedia planning tool for auditing the accessibility of buildings and services, and writing reports in appropriate formats in the context of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, funding requirements and best practice in building management. The handbook offers straightforward guidance about undertaking access audits and the various report formats to best communicate recommendations. Practical advice is supported by a range of case studies and an authoritative worked example of a successful report based on a real-life access audit. This is supplemented by a series of up-to-date auditing checklists and a DVD that includes both editable, electronic versions of the checklists and an award-winning film, Access Audits: a planning tool for businesses, which will provide a good understanding of what access audits are, their purpose and how to carry one out.
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.
Think parent: supporting disabled adults as parents
- Authors:
- OLSEN Richard, TYERS Helen
- Publisher:
- National Family and Parenting Institute
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 95p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The key messages of the report include: supportive practice with disabled parents will often involve working closely with professionals in other agencies; disabled parents want support that is timely, appropriate, and flexible and which fits in with, rather than undermines, family life; disabled parents are a diverse group, not only in terms of their impairments and family situation, but in terms of the way they see professionals as helping them. A one-size-fits-all approach to supporting disabled parents will not address this diversity. Good practice may involve large and complex packages of support, but may also include low-cost imaginative solutions to particular problems. Support should be needs-led; disabled parents' perceptions of any difficulties, and their preferred way of solving them, should be at the centre of the relationship between professionals and parents. Support should be flexible enough to respond quickly to the predictable and unpredictable changes in family circumstances as children grow up. The report includes sections on: ·the legislative and policy context; what disabled parents have to say about good practice; what research from a social model of disability perspective has to say about good practice with disabled parents; and strategic issues in the development of policies regarding supporting disabled parents. It also has a section on examples of improving practice, which covers a wide spectrum of social work tasks including referral, assessment service provision and review. It ends with information about a number of other organisations that may be able to provide information, advice and support to disabled parents.
Delivering housing adaptations for disabled people: a good practice guide
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, et al
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 77p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This document describes the various statutory duties laid upon both social services and housing authorities in relation to their adaptations service. It draws on identified good practice from local authorities across the country in advising on the key issues about how the service should be organised and the full process of delivery from first contact with a client to the completion of the adaptation. The purpose of an adaptation is to modify disabling environments in order to restore or enable independent living, privacy, confidence and dignity for individuals and their families. It is therefore not primarily a matter of building work, the provision of equipment or otherwise modifying a dwelling, but providing an individualised solution to the problems of people experiencing a disabling environment. The primary purpose of this document is to advise local authorities on how they can establish a first class service which can deliver adaptations to the homes of disabled people in order to meet their needs and statutory entitlements.
Creating independence and inclusion: youth personal assistance support scheme; good practice guidelines
- Author:
- JADE Rowan
- Publisher:
- National Youth Agency
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 69p. + video
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
The youth personal assistance support scheme (PASS) was set up by the West of England Centre for Inclusive Living to promote the independence, equality and inclusion through the provision of personal assistance to young disabled people. It is based on the belief that young disabled people should have the same rights as adults. This report and video illustrate the development and future plans of the project and invites other organisations to learn from the good practices developed.
Stronger links: a guide to good practice for children's family-based short-term care services
- Editors:
- JONES Vicky, LENEHAN Christine, ROBINSON Carol
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 198p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
The second edition of this guide on good practice for family-based short-term care services for children has been updated and offers a legislative framework for each area in practice in addition to practical guidelines for implementing the legislation. Case studies and material used by existing schemes are included. This guide includes guidelines on all aspects of running a service, including publicity, recruitment, assessment, reviews, quality assurance and management issues.
Stronger links: a guide to good practice for children's family based short-term care services
- Editors:
- JONES Vicky, LENEHAN Christine, ROBINSON Carol
- Publisher:
- Shared Care UK
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 141p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Guide to good practice for short term care services for disabled children and their families. The guidance is based on the Children Act 1989 and includes sections on: recruiting carers; access to services; assessing the carers; assessing children and families; preparation; consulting children, parents and carers; matching and linking carers to children and families; reviewing and monitoring placements; reviewing the approval of carers; training and support for carers; quality assurance; and managing good practice. The 2nd edition, dated 2000, is also available.
Report of the task and finish group on care pathways for long term neurological conditions
- Author:
- WALES. Welsh Assembly Government. Task and Finish Group on Care Pathways for Long Term Neurological Conditions
- Publisher:
- Wales. Welsh Assembly Government
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 11p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This report by the Welsh Neuroscience Expert Group Care Pathways sub-group outlines a process for the development of care pathways to support children, young people and adults with long term neurological conditions. The aim of these pathways is to help people with long term neurological conditions manage their condition, maintain independence and achieve the best possible quality of life through an integrated process of education, information sharing, assessment, care planning and service delivery. It is suggested that this would be as delineated in the National Service Framework for Long Term Conditions for England. Areas addressed are: early recognition, diagnosis and treatment; acute care; early specialist rehabilitation; community and longer term rehabilitation; transitions; vocational and educational rehabilitation; equipment and accommodation; personal care and support for the sufferer, their families and carers; palliative care, care within hospital and other health or social care settings; quality assurance, audit and development.
Our life, our say: a good practice guide to young disabled people's peer mentoring/support
- Author:
- BETHELL Julie
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 96p.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
This report is a good-practice guide based on an evaluation of an action research project that was designed to support young disabled people making the transition towards adulthood and inclusive living. It draws on the experience of the Young Disabled People's Peer Mentoring Project based within Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People (GMCDP). The guide is based on the views and experiences of young disabled people, their friends, families, and the professionals, organisations and services who support them in making the transition to adulthood. The guide aims to: give advice to young disabled people and others on how to start their own project; highlight the benefits of self-organisation for youth groups; look at the kind of values and practical resources necessary to make sure the groups succeed ; help support workers and organisations let go of control and involve young disabled people at every level of organisations; and show workers and organisations how to facilitate young disabled people's self-directed groups. With a range of practical suggestions and tips, the guide also highlights: the barriers that young disabled people face; what should be done to address those barriers; the right approach to setting up similar projects; who needs to be involved in making a project genuinely inclusive; and the practical aspects of setting up a project - transport, venue, administration, and accessibility of information.
I'll go first: the planning and review toolkit for use with children with disabilities
- Author:
- KIRKBRIDE Lucy
- Publisher:
- Children's Society
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 83p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This pack aims to provide social workers, teachers and other professionals with the means to enable children with disabilities to communicate their views. It contains a variety of wipe-clean boards, with illustrations and simple sentences, on which those views are recorded using stickers and pens. The boards are photocopied to provide a permanent record. The pack is designed for use with children in short term foster care, family-based short term care, in a residential children's centre or with a statement of special educational needs. Detailed advice on using the materials in different situations is supplied.