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Peering at a solution
- Author:
- WINGHAM Gaynor
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 48, 5.11.03, 2003, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
For young people with disabilities, a new approach of peer mentoring is helping the transition to independence. Looks at the Peer Mentoring Project developed by Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People.
Leaving home: the housing aspirations of young disabled people
- Author:
- DEAN Jo
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 6(2), June 2003, pp.21-26.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Reports on research exploring the housing experiences and aspirations of young disabled people in Scotland. Thirty disabled people aged 18 to 34 were interviewed. Twenty-one lived with parents and nine independently. Interviewees were asked about their current housing situation, housing career and future housing aspirations. Results found that those who leave the family home in crisis experience several housing moves before settling; those who leave in a planned way tend to stay in their first home. Young people aspiring to leave the parental home are limited to a social housing tenancy, due to their economic circumstances and a lack of knowledge of other choices. Concludes that social care professionals need to pay closer attention to assessing housing aspirations and helping young people consider all options. The research was carried out by the Nuffield Centre for Community Care Studies Glasgow and funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Individualised support and funding: building blocks for capacity building and inclusion
- Authors:
- LORD John, HUTCHISON Peggy
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(1), January 2003, pp.71-86.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The paradigm in disability supports is shifting away from institutional services and professional control towards self-determination and community involvement of people with disabilities. The assumption that the best way to provide disability supports is for government to give money to agencies or services, rather than directly to people with disabilities and their support networks, is being challenged. This article reports on findings and themes from a Canadian study that investigated individualised funding projects from different parts of the world. Ten of fifteen of the most 'promising initiatives' were selected for more detailed study and analysis. Projects analysed were from Canada, the US, and Australia. Themes emerging from the study included the fact that values and principles mattered, a policy framework provided coherence and equity, infrastructure supports for individuals were separate from service system, the facilitator-broker role differed from case management, allocation of individualised funds was designed to be equitable and account able to the funder and person, and a 'learn as you go' philosophy maximised positive outcomes.
Missing pieces: a chronicle of living with a disability
- Author:
- ZOLA Irving Kenneth
- Publisher:
- Temple University Press
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 246p.
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, PA
The author started out in the role of a social scientist on a seven-day excursion to acquaint himself with an extraordinary experiment in living, Het Dorp, one of the few places in the world designed to promote "the optimum happiness" of those with severe physical disabilities. Neither a medial center nor a nursing home, Het Dorp is a village in the western-most part of the Netherlands. What began as a sociological attempt to describe this unusual setting became, through the author's growing awareness, what can only be called a socio-autobiography. Resuming his prior dependence on a wheelchair, the author experienced his own transformation from someone who is "normal" and "valid" to someone who is "invalid." The routine of Het Dorp became his: he lived in an architecturally modified home, visited the workshops, and shared meals, social events, conversation, and perceptions with the remarkably diverse residents. The author confronts some rarely discussed issues, the self-image of a person with a chronic disability, how one fills one's time, how one deals with authority and dependence, and love and sex.
After the act: implementing the Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000
- Author:
- BROAD Bob
- Publisher:
- De Montfort University. Children and Families Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 53p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
The Act, alongside other linked initiatives, represents a welcome and much needed step forward in helping young people leaving care to improve their life chances. It has had many noteworthy gains and achievements but there remains considerable variation across and between local authorities in the extent to which the Act is being implemented and funded. Positive changes can be seen in areas of assessment and planning, education and training, accommodation and finances. However continuing problems, especially in areas of resources, health, a very low priority, and service strategies for young people with a disability, were also highlighted by the research.
Shifting the balance of services. A review of respite care in Torfaen
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Management Issues in Social Care, 9(1), Autumn 2003, pp.16-21.
- Publisher:
- OLM Systems
Torfaen is a small unitary authority in South East Wales. Reports on a study into respite services which was carried out between June and September 2002. The study was carried out to review services in light of Torfaen's split from the four other authorities in the former Gwent; the emphasis on supporting carers in the strategy of the Welsh Assembly; practice concerns relating to the low level of services to disabled people in Wales. This article describes the approach taken and some of the findings.
The direct approach: disabled people's experience of direct payments; summary of key findings and key recommendations
- Author:
- SCOPE
- Publisher:
- SCOPE
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Instead of receiving support services directly from their local authority, disabled people can opt to receive the equivalent amount in cash. With cash in lieu of services, disabled people can buy in and tailor their own support package to suit their needs. Local authorities have been able to offer direct payments to people aged between 18 and 65 since 1997. In 2000 the Carers’ and Disabled Children’s Act made direct payments available to 16 and 17 year olds, carers and people with parental responsibility for disabled children. And finally, in April 2003 it was made compulsory for local authorities to offer direct payments to all individuals who are entitled to social services and meet the eligibility criteria for direct payments. Research since the inception of the Act has highlighted the huge difference direct payments have made in enhancing independent living in terms of giving choice and control to disabled people and facilitating social inclusion. Yet disabled people also express concerns that some local policies and practices remain as barriers to the opportunities offered by direct payments.
The direct approach: disabled people's experience of direct payments
- Author:
- MCMULLEN Kate
- Publisher:
- SCOPE
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 76p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Instead of receiving support services directly from their local authority, disabled people can opt to receive the equivalent amount in cash. With cash in lieu of services, disabled people can buy in and tailor their own support package to suit their needs. Local authorities have been able to offer direct payments to people aged between 18 and 65 since 1997. In 2000 the Carers’ and Disabled Children’s Act made direct payments available to 16 and 17 year olds, carers and people with parental responsibility for disabled children. And finally, in April 2003 it was made compulsory for local authorities to offer direct payments to all individuals who are entitled to social services and meet the eligibility criteria for direct payments. Research since the inception of the Act has highlighted the huge difference direct payments have made in enhancing independent living in terms of giving choice and control to disabled people and facilitating social inclusion. Yet disabled people also express concerns that some local policies and practices remain as barriers to the opportunities offered by direct payments.
Disabled young adults and the parental home
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Young disabled people had similar aspirations to their non-disabled peers. Most wanted to leave the parental home and most did not regard their first house as a home for life. They expected eventually to form a new household with a partner and/or children and to seek housing to suit. Disabled people and their non-disabled peers took similar routes to leaving home, whether they had left the parental home to pursue education, had left with family support in a planned way, or had left following a crisis in the family. Their attitudes to housing were related to: a sense of independence and control; access to local amenities; feeling safe or unsafe in the neighbourhood; features of the property (including accessible design); possessions in the home; and relationships with household members and neighbours.
An evaluation of a young disabled people's peer mentoring/support project
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Young disabled people face particular barriers in growing up and becoming independent as their experiences of direct and indirect discrimination may lead to a lack of self-confidence and isolation from others of the same age and from the opportunities non-disabled young people enjoy. The Young Disabled People's Peer Mentoring /Peer Support Project developed a range of activities to address these needs over a two-year period, building on previous work. The project was evaluated with the help of both adults and younger disabled people.