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Start and stop
- Author:
- VAUX Gary
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.10.02, 2002, p.43.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how a families disability living allowance and child benefits can be affected when a child becomes looked after.
Respite care in a children's residential unit: perceptions of parents, young people and staff
- Author:
- DAY Peter R.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Services Research, 2, 1997, pp.22-36.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Describes an exploratory qualitative study of staff and users' views of a respite care service provided in a residential care home for children with disabilities. Discusses the results in relation to other work on respite care for children and families. Implications for practice are considered and a philosophy for respite care, based on the results, is outlined.
At arm's length
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.7.95, 1995, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Many children with disabilities are often in care in the sense that they spend a lot of time in institutions but, sometimes, they are not formally in care because their local authority has not taken over parental responsibility for them. Asks if there are any support systems which would enable disabled children to experience family life.
Championing children: a report on Manchester City Council's services for children
- Authors:
- PRICE John Rea, PUGH Gillian
- Publisher:
- Manchester City Council. Chief Executive's Office
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 42p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
The purpose of this review was to determine whether services are provided in the most effective way to meet the needs of children and families in Manchester and whether the current focus of limited resources is the most appropriate. The remit of the review was extended to cover the entire interface between Children and Families Division (CFD) and the Education Department (Children's Services Division CSD) in relation to those under 18. Work was concentrated in four task groups: children and young people with disabilities; interagency arrangements for child protection; the interrelationship of CFD and education department provision for children away from home; the interrelationship between CSD and the services of CFD for young children.
Proposal for a draft Children (Northern Ireland) order 1993
- Author:
- NORTHERN IRELAND. Department of Health and Social Services. Office of Law Reform
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland. Department of Health and Social Services
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 50p.
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
Proposed order dealing with the care, upbringing and protection of children, and the provision of personal social services for children in need (including disabled children) and their families. The aim is to reform, consolidate and harmonise most of the public and private law relating to children in Northern Ireland in a single statutory framework along the lines of the Children Act 1989.
Adolescence, risk and resilience: against the odds
- Editors:
- COLEMAN John, HAGELL Ann, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- John Wiley and Sons
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 205p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
This book considers a range of disadvantages that may impact on adolescents and suggests ways to overcome them. It is about demonstrating a positive approach to young people and their circumstances and shows how the concepts of risk and resilience are related. Contributors examine: the nature of risk and resilience in adolescence; the role of the family; growing up in substitute care; sex and risk; mental health and mental disorders; young disabled people; anti-social behaviour; social exclusion, risk and young adulthood.
Every child is special: placing disabled children for permanence
- Author:
- COUSINS Jennifer
- Publisher:
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 71p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This Good Practice Guide tracks the converging processes of planning for a permanent home for disabled children, and recruiting suitable families. It covers: assessing and communicating with children; recruiting and assessing families and making links; planning permanence; profiling and featuring children; and supporting placements. It examines some of the organisational structures that form the context of this work and highlights the changes that are necessary if more disabled children are to have the security of a permanent family. The guide provides an overview of disabled children 'in need' and 'looked after' and describes current models of disability. It acknowledges the problem of definitions and terminology and discusses impairment in terms of language and popular culture. Relevant legal issues are also briefly explained.
Analysis of the Quality Protects 2002 management action plans: services for disabled children and their families
- Author:
- COUNCIL FOR DISABLED CHILDREN
- Publisher:
- Council for Disabled Children
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 72p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Quality Protects Programme, (QP) was implemented across England in 1998 to improve services for children in need with a particular focus on looked after children.This report follows on from the previous analyses of the Quality Protects Management Action Plans, (MAPS). The last detailed report on issues in MAPS relating to disability was on the second year reports in 1999/2000 , also produced by the Council for Disabled Children. This report is intended to: note the quality of services currently available; note what is planned for the near future; highlight examples of services which seem to be working particularly well and which could be used as models by others; and identify areas of concern and gaps in provision. The report aims to identify innovative practice in: supporting young people with complex needs to remain in their community; multi agency working at both operational and strategic levels; and supporting children with challenging behaviour.
Factfile 2002-03: facts and figures about children in the UK
- Author:
- NATIONAL CHILDRENS HOME
- Publisher:
- National Children's Home
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 284p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains statistical and other information on: population characteristics; family costs, income and poverty; children, housing and homelessness; children and disability; education and health; children at risk; crime; and children in care.
Factfile 2001: facts and figures about children in the UK
- Author:
- NATIONAL CHILDREN'S HOME
- Publisher:
- National Children's Home
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 172p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains statistical and other information on: population characteristics; family costs, income and poverty; children, housing and homelessness; children and disability; education and health; children at risk; crime; and children in care.