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Slow on the uptake
- Author:
- HUNTER Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.5.98, 1998, p.22.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on the patchy record of local authorities implementing direct payments legislation.
The cost of childhood disability
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
This study of the financial costs of bringing up a child with a severe disability brought together groups of parents to establish the minimum essential costs. Parents acted as their own 'budget standards committees', negotiating and agreeing the goods and services that they deemed to be necessary for disabled child to participate as fully as possible in the world around them. Outlines the finding of research conducted at the Centre for Research and Social Policy.
Paying to care: the cost of childhood disability
- Authors:
- DOBSON Barbara, MIDDLETON Sue
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 58p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
The benefits system recognises that disabled people incur extra costs but little is known about the nature and extent of these costs, particularly for children. This report describes minimum essential budget standards for children of differing ages and with a range of disabilities. Using a new and innovative approach, the budget standards were drawn up by almost 300 parents of severely disabled children. The study concludes that the minimum cost of raising a severely disabled child is, on average, three times more than for a child without a disability. The authors describe the priorities and experiences which influenced the parents decisions. They examine the implications of the findings for benefit provision and service delivery.
Reaping the benefit?
- Author:
- SNELL Janet
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 19.3.98, 1998, p.10.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The government's onslaught on benefit fraud has dealt a double blow to mentally ill people on disability benefits. Reports on how both their health and their incomes are at risk.
Work, rest and pay: the deal for personal assistance users
- Authors:
- KESTENBAUM Ann, CAVA Helena
- Publisher:
- York Publishing Service/Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 80p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Explores the different factors that affect the decisions of disabled people who employ personal assistants and who want to work but find themselves left with little of their earnings above Income Support level after paying their assistants. Based on interviews with 42 disabled people. Ways forward in terms of policy changes are discussed in the conclusion.
Disability benefits: where next; a consultation paper from MIND's policy department
- Author:
- MIND
- Publisher:
- MIND
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Outlines the proposals in the Governments green paper 'A new contract for welfare' and invites readers to comment so that MIND can include any relevant points in its response to the paper. Also details the 'Disability Earnings Concession' and invites comments.
The interface between social work and social policy
- Editor:
- RAMON Shulamit
- Publisher:
- Venture Press
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 233p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Focuses on the inter relationship between social work and social policy. Includes papers on: placing social work within social theory and political practice; community as a basis for social policy and social action; the role of the supra state in organisation shaping - the case of the European Union; social stratification and differentiation of incomes in Russia; redistributing wealth and power between the state and individual entrepreneurs in Armenia; introducing new professions - social work in Russia; the emergence and development of the non profit sector in Hungary; advocacy as a policy and practice issue; changing cultures of care in the two Germanies; approaches to deinstitutionalisation in Western and Eastern Europe; the rediscovery of child neglect and abuse; comprehending and responding to elder abuse; and social integration of children with disabilities in India.