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Surviving ethnicity and disability: minority children in public care
- Author:
- ZAVIRSEK Darja
- Journal article citation:
- Ljetopis Studijskog Centra Socijalnog Rada, 10(2), 2003, pp.197-210.
- Publisher:
- University of Zagreb
- Place of publication:
- Zagreb
The recent child centred perspective in social work theory and practice is driven by the “modernisation of childhood” which stresses the importance of a child as a subject and a citizen with his or her own group rights. At the same time children living in public institutions experience a lack of child’s centred caregiving and a lack of personal visibility. This is especially true for the disabled and ethnic minority children who are most often recipients of public care where a traditional pattern of caregiving is maintained. The author demonstrates that both groups of children experience civic disability while experiencing institutionalisation in residential care. [Article in Croatian].
Early institutional provision in Scotland for disabled children
- Author:
- HUTCHISON Iain
- Journal article citation:
- Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 3(1), February 2004, pp.31-43.
- Publisher:
- Department of Social Work. University of Strathclyde.
Reviews the early history of disabled children's institutional provision in Scotland, noting the industrialising and urbanising context and the fragmented development, each kind of disability being regarded separately. Examines the aims of institutions and their variety of objectives - education and training, medical intervention, custodial confinement. Discusses supporters' and administrators' objectives and includes first hand testimony. Development was uneven. Sensory, mental and physical impairments were not identified as distinct; particular conditions were seen as separate and attracted attention at different times, resulting in different responses. Disability was identified as a 'problem'. Children were removed from family life, stigmatised, and had their aspirations and expectations stifled. Institutions projected a caring image, but children were in fact often traumatised by strict discipline and loss of family contact and basic freedoms.
Disabled children living away from home in the UK
- Authors:
- READ Janet, HARRISON Christine
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work, 2(2), August 2002, pp.211-231.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article reviews existing findings about disabled children in the UK who are living away from home. Goes on to highlight research findings about the general population of children who live away from home, and explores the relevance for separated disabled children. Summarises issues for future research.
Dereliction of duty
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 23.4.98, 1998, p.23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on how disabled children in care are still missing out on the support they are entitled to, and many are not consulted about the views and wishes.
Safeguarding disabled children in residential special schools
- Authors:
- PAUL Alina, CAWSON Pat, PATON Joni
- Publisher:
- National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 140p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This is a research initiative to promote the care and protection of disabled children living away from home. The project worked with residential special schools for children with severe and multiple physical and learning disabilities, to examine child protection policies and practice. It aimed at identifying and describing good practice models for child welfare and protection. These will be incorporated into practice guidelines to be available for management, staff training and practice development. Findings will also be used to prepare a guide to inform parents on standards of child protection safeguards they should be able to expect while their children are at residential school. Disabled children are among those most likely to spend time in residential institutions. The single largest category of disabled children living away from home - and therefore the primary focus of the proposed work - is children with a variety of complex physical and learning disabilities attending residential special schools. The issue of the protection from abuse of disabled children living in residential settings has received much less attention than the protection of children 'looked after' by local authorities. The paucity of research in this field reflects the low priority often given to the needs of disabled children, and the myth that disabled children are unlikely to be abused. Yet there is evidence, from accounts by disabled adults of their childhood, and from research and practice experience, to suggest that disabled children are at increased risk of abuse.
Placement tests
- Author:
- ELLINOR Rebecca
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 3.05.05, 2005, pp.25-26.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Looks at the latest guidance on commissioning services from children who live away from home.
The characteristics of children with a disability looked after away from home and their future service needs
- Authors:
- McCONKEY Ray, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 34(4), June 2004, pp.561-576.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Little is known about the characteristics of children with disabilities who meet the British legal definition of ‘looked after’ children. Data were obtained on 108 such children living within one geographical area in Northern Ireland and who spent 90 days or more in a 12-month period living away from the family home. However, this figure may under-estimate the numbers, given the difficulties in tracking children aged over 14 years who were admitted to hospitals on a short- or long-term basis. The median age of the children was 14 years; most had learning disabilities allied with challenging behaviours, communication difficulties, autism and some were technologically dependent. Many of their families experienced a range of problems. One-third of the children were accommodated in various residential settings but half of these placements were in hospital or adult residential accommodation. However, there were marked differences in the services provided to this client group by the four provider agencies. Future service needs included increased respite breaks for families and the provision of both more residential placements and more appropriate accommodation, especially for teenagers. The dilemmas in reconciling the need for local, but specialized, service provision are discussed.
Looking for a better way to care for children: cooperation between the state and civil society in China
- Author:
- SHANG Xiaoyuan
- Journal article citation:
- Social Service Review, 76(2), June 2002, pp.203-228.
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
Orphaned or abandoned children, most of them also disabled, are the most vulnerable group in Chinese society. This article examines the new policy movement in China, from institutional care to foster care. Argues that moving to foster care should cost the government little more than it spends now, but it could lead to a revolutionary change in the system of supporting these children. Both international and domestic nongovernment organisations have been actively involved in the process.
Gone missing? Disabled children living away from their families
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 12(2), April 1997, pp.241-258.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Many disabled children spend most of their childhood in 'care', but not formally 'in care'. Research concerning disabled children has been dominated by a medical model of disability and by a failure to include the subjective reality of children themselves. There is also inadequate statistical information available concerning children who spend most of their time away from a family setting. This article looks at what is known about such experiences, and identifies some issues for future research.
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.