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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.
Popping in helping out
- Author:
- MACDONALD Charlotte
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.5.98, 1998, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Many people with special needs would not want to give up their home, but find practicalities of looking after it very difficult. Suggests that an independent tenancy with support visits may be the answer.
Working together on care and repair: a strategic view
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive Development Department
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office/Scotland. Scottish Executive Development Department
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 32p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Care and repair helps people to live independently in the community, complementing community care services. It is a service which supports many national and local objectives in housing, health and social care. Crucially it is highly valued by service users, demonstrated most obviously by their willingness to invest significant mounts of their own money in its services.
Personal touch
- Author:
- BAIRD Sheena
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 23.3.95, 1995, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Extending self-determination to people with learning difficulties is not very easy. Discovers some innovative solutions and parallels between pilot projects in Canada and Grampian.
Unaddressed: the housing aspirations of young disabled people in Scotland
- Author:
- DEAN Jo
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 46p.
- Place of publication:
- York
This report explores the housing careers and aspirations of disabled young people in Scotland, based on interviews with 30 people with learning disabilities and physical disability. It starts by reviewing what is known about the housing careers of young people in the general population, noting that the impact of disability is rarely considered in general studies who distinguish by categories such as gender, ethnicity, educational attainment and family income. Five groups of young people are identified: those satisfied and dissatisfied with living in the parental home, those who left for education, those who left in crisis, and those who left in a planned way for reasons other than education. It is found that moving out of the family home is viewed as a symbol of adulthood and as being about independence and choice. There is an overwhelming reliance on the social rented sector to enable young people to move away from the parental home, and disabled young people do not appear to be accessing specialist housing advice which could widen their options. The paper concludes by suggesting that there is a need for housing education to enable young people to form realistic aspirations and, if they choose to leave the family home, access the most appropriate housing. Introduction There is no sharp distinction between childhood and adulthood.
How does the community care?: public attitudes to community care in Scotland
- Authors:
- CURTICE Lisa, PETCH Alison
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive. Social Research
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 49p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
As part of the 2001 Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, the Scottish Executive funded a module of 40 questions on the attitudes of people in Scotland to a range of community care issues. Interviews were completed with 1605 individuals across Scotland. Three quarters of respondents felt comfortable about living next door to a frail older person and more than half about living next door to a person with a learning disability. Less than half, however, felt comfortable about living next door to a person with mental illness or with dementia. Respondents were strongly in favour of individuals with support needs living in the community rather than in care homes or hospitals. This view was most common for a person with a learning disability and least common (but still the majority) for a person with dementia. Most people interviewed thought that a person with a mental illness or a learning disability should not serve on a jury. Support needs, it was felt, should in the main be met by paid workers. The exception was for the person with a learning disability needing to be accompanied to a club where the potential contribution of family members and volunteers was cited. A substantial majority considered the funding of support to be the responsibility of the government. Respondents with personal experience of care were even more likely than others to take this view. There was strong support for individuals remaining within their own homes when this was their wish, even when this was a more expensive option. Only a fifth of respondents thought that those able to pay should be able to access better quality provision, suggesting strong support for equity. Respondents expressed a willingness to pay higher taxes to generate funds for increased expenditure on health, support for older people and pensions. The top priorities for additional government spending on older people were home helps, special housing provision, and district nurses.