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Tiny trust, big dreams
- Author:
- STRONG Susannah
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 3.6.94, 1994, p.12.
Looks at the work of the May Trust run by parents of children with learning and/or physical disabilities who were brought up in Camphill communities.
Important friendships
- Author:
- CAMPBELL Diana
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 17.2.94, 1994, p.11.
Birmingham SSD's Share Scheme has won the 1994 Care Weekly Award for Adult Services. The scheme is a social services led friendship agency matching volunteers with disabled people and people with learning disabilities. The needs of the consumers are put centre stage and their is a careful vetting and training process for all volunteers.
On the rights of children with special needs in changing Europe
- Author:
- WIMAN Ronald
- Publisher:
- STAKES. National Research and Development centre for Welfare and Health
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 51p.
- Place of publication:
- Helsinki
On the right track
- Author:
- GAGE Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 22.9.94, 1994, p.9.
For most people in need of care, family life is the ideal. Adult placement is becoming a significant contributor to service provision. Looks at the work of the National Association of Adult Placement Schemes (NAAPS) and Shared Care and considers the potential pitfalls of adult placement.
Therapy at the Bobath Centre
- Author:
- SHENTON Baby
- Journal article citation:
- Mencap News, 45, June 1994, pp.14-15.
Describes how the work of the Bobath Centre helps children with disabilities.
Disability, discrimination and the criminal justice system
- Author:
- CHAPPELL Anne Louise
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 42, Winter 1994, pp.19-33.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Examines the experience of disabled people in the British criminal justice system, paying particular attention to people with learning difficulties. Two aspects of the criminal justice system are discussed. The first concerns the nature of specific legislation which impacts on disabled people. The second refers to recent cases where there has been a miscarriage of justice. Several of the individuals wrongly convicted in such cases have had learning difficulties. Argues that disabled people experience discrimination within the criminal justice system. Tackling this discrimination must form part of the agenda for civil rights for disabled people.
Making the break from 'respite care': a keynote review
- Author:
- ROBINSON Carol
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 22(2), 1994, pp.42-45.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Seeks to describe the development of respite services in the UK from their beginnings as relief care for carers to the emerging view of services as offering a potentially positive experience for disabled people.
Single-person adoption: for and against
- Author:
- OWEN Morag
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Society, 8(2), 1994, pp.151-163.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
With support of the Department of Health, Bristol University is carrying out a small-scale research study of single-person adoption. In advance of the findings, the author surveys existing arguments for and against the approval of single people as adoptive parents. The debate also raises some larger questions - not simply about adoption and necessary safeguards, but about the nature of the approval process itself.
Special options
- Author:
- FRANCIS Joy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.3.94, 1994, p.10.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on how discrepancies between the Children Act and the Education Act are leaving disabled children without any services.
Violence and abuse in the lives of people with disabilities: the end of silent acceptance
- Author:
- SOBSEY Dick
- Publisher:
- Paul H. Brookes
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 466p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Baltimore, MD
Looks at the nature of abuse of people with disabilities and why it occurs. Goes on to deal with: detecting instances where abuse may be occurring; identifying important risk factors of abuse; combating abuse by altering specific social conditions; helping to heal the consequences of abuse; and ending the harmful violence cycle within which people with disabilities can become trapped.