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Enabling rights
- Author:
- SIMS Jean
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 1.6.04, 2004, pp.21-23.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
With a new draft Disability Discrimination Bill published last December and on its way to parliament, examines the impact of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.
Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000: code of practice for continuing and welfare attorneys; effective from 2nd April 2001
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 76p.
The Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 introduces some new arrangements for making decisions about personal welfare and managing property and financial affairs for adults whose capacity to do so is impaired. The Act allows for people to anticipate the possibility of their own incapacity by granting a power of attorney in relation to property, financial affairs or personal welfare. “Continuing attorneys” are attorneys with powers over property and financial affairs which commence or continue on the granter’s incapacity. “Welfare attorneys” are attorneys with powers over personal welfare (including health and research) which commence on the granter’s incapacity.
From expectations to experiences: revisiting the views of the voluntary sector on the Children (Scotland) Act 1995
- Author:
- MILLEN Dianne
- Publisher:
- Children in Scotland
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 38p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Outlines the results of consultations with voluntary organisations and local government authorities in Scotland. The report aims to establish what priorities voluntary organisations have in relation to he implementation of the Act, and what new responsibilities are acquired by the result of the Act.
Over to you: guide to good practice in implementing the Children (Scotland) Act 1995
- Author:
- CHILDREN IN SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Children in Scotland
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 55p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Explains the implications of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 for voluntary organisations. Gives case studies of projects that have put the act's provisions into practice and describes voluntary organisations' potential role in service planning; promoting user participation; services to disabled children; and fund raising.
Making progress: equality annual report
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive,|Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 49p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Significant advances have been made in equal opportunities through legislation introduced through the Scottish Parliament, which has: made promotion of equality a national priority in education and put a duty on education authorities to say how they will improve equal opportunities; put a duty on Scottish Ministers, local authorities and social landlords to encourage equal opportunities and comply with equality legislation in providing housing and related services; put a duty on the Scottish Commission for Regulation of Care and Scottish Social Services Council to encourage equal opportunities and comply with equality legislation when carrying out their functions; established a statutory committee to advise on transport needs of disabled people; increased protection for those experiencing domestic abuse; recognised rights for same sex couples in cases of adults with incapacity; improved procedures in sexual offence cases, e.g. protecting rape victims from being cross-examined by the accused; put a duty on local authorities to offer eligible disabled people direct payments; repealed section 2a of Local Government Act 1986 thus removing constraints to the discussion of sexual orientation in schools.
All together now: meeting special educational needs through rural childcare services
- Author:
- NELSON Julia
- Publisher:
- Children in Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 9p.,list of orgs.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Discusses how Scottish rural childcare services, such as playgroups, childminders, nurseries and out-of-school groups, can support children with a learning or physical disability. Covers issues related to legislation; childcare/respite care; inclusive/separate approaches; training; transport; information; resources and contacts.
Child welfare policy and practice: issues and lessons emerging from current research
- Editors:
- IWANIEC Dorota, HILL Malcolm
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 304p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Explores the implications of recent research for all those concerned with child welfare and social work. Addresses topical issues as expressed by central government bodies and enquiries regarding services and policies relating to children in need of care and protection. Includes papers on: issues emerging from child care research post Children Act 1989; the legal and policy contexts for children's services in Scotland and Northern Ireland; the involvement of voluntary organisations in the first Scottish children's services plans; operationalising the definition of children in need from UK child care legislation; understanding and developing family support in Northern Ireland; the transition to adulthood of disabled young people in Northern Ireland; an evaluation of the Scottish pilot of the looking after children records system; educating looked after children; social work conceptions regarding black children in Scotland; the outcomes of a twenty year follow up of children who failed to thrive; communication between child and adult and the implications for use of the live link with child witnesses; and law, policy, practice and research in child and family social work.
The Children (Scotland) Act 1995: regulations and guidance; volume 1; support and protection for children and their families
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Scottish Office. Social Work Services Group
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 109p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Contains regulations and guidance on: promoting the welfare of children and families; planning children's services; providing information about services; providing accommodation; day care services; children and disability; protecting children; short-term refuges for children at risk of harm; and representations and complaints.
Children in society: contemporary theory, policy and practice price
- Editors:
- FOLEY Pam, ROCHE Jeremy, TUCKER Stanley
- Publisher:
- Palgrave
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 299p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
Collection of papers providing a critical and comprehensive account of the theoretical and practical issues raised in working with children and their families. Includes chapters on: the development of child health and welfare services in England; the changing experience of childhood; the demonisation of children; racism; child care policy; children's policy in the European Union; quality of life for children; children's rights; mothers, children and healthcare at home; listening to children; community development as a strategy for empowerment; children's hearings in Scotland; parental responsibility; the impact of domestic violence on children; primary education in Scotland; children, sexual abuse and the child protection system; foster families; external influences on workplace competence; an ecological perspective on child abuse; children's health at school; theories of child development; working with disabled children; involving children and families in decision making about health; men working in child care; perspectives on parenting; and developing partnership practice.