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Childcare products for all?
- Author:
- ETCHELL Lindsey
- Journal article citation:
- Disability, Pregnancy and Parenthood International, 49, Spring 2005, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- National Centre for Disabled Parents
The author describes some of the findings of Ricabilitiy's three-year project to assess a range of mainstream childcare products for ease of use by disabled parents.
Credit is not enough
- Author:
- SALE Anabel Unity
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.3.03, 2003, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
In April, parents of disabled children will receive more help with child care costs to allow them the option of gaining paid work. Looks at the changes in tax credit and the lack of suitable child care which may hinder the effectiveness of improved child tax credits.
Taxing definitions
- Author:
- BURGESS Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.1.93, 1993, p.7.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Questions whether people with disabilities actually gain from their Council Tax reduction and gives advice for helping maintenance-chasing clients.
Mothers with physical disabilities caring for young children
- Authors:
- JACOB Jean, KIRSHBAUM Megan, PRESTON Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 16(2), 2017, pp.95-119.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Seventy-one U.S. mothers with a physical disability who had a child aged 0 to 3 years responded to a survey about the system of care used for their child. Results indicated that mothers participated in all different types of care (physical, comforting, playing, limit setting, and taking the child outside the home). Partners and participants’ mothers provided the most assistance with care. Mothers were generally satisfied with assistance received from others. This article explores how mothers remain central to their children with others assisting with the child’s care and the impact of such assistance on mothers’ relationships with partners and children. (Publisher abstract)
The employment tax credit: and issues for the future of in-work support
- Authors:
- BENNETT Fran, HIRSCH Donald
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 152p.
- Place of publication:
- York
From 2003, the Government plans to introduce the Employment Tax Credit, to extend help to a wider range of individuals and couples with earnings from work who are nonetheless living on low incomes. What place is there for such in-work supplements in tackling poverty and promoting opportunity? An analysis of evidence suggests the need to balance the decision to extend income top-ups with other policies in order to achieve these aims.
Work in progress: CAB clients' experiences of Working Families' Tax Credit
- Author:
- WHEATLEY John
- Publisher:
- National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 62p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Working families’ tax credit and disabled person’s tax credit were was introduced in October 1999. A disabled child tax credit followed in October 2000. The tax credits scheme is designed ‘to give working families with children a better deal’. Working families’ tax credit and disabled person’s tax credit have a key role to play in eliminating poverty, and the extra sums available to families in paid work are welcome. The impact on poverty will be diminished unless take-up of the tax credits is high. This report shows that take-up of the tax credits will be reduced, unless people are given more choice about how they are paid working families’ tax credit; there is improved publicity and information; and the rules on the childcare tax credit are amended.
Work in progress: CAB clients' experiences of Working Families' Tax Credit: summary
- Author:
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX
- Publisher:
- National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Working families’ tax credit and disabled person’s tax credit were was introduced in October 1999. A disabled child tax credit followed in October 2000. The tax credits scheme is designed ‘to give working families with children a better deal’. Working families’ tax credit and disabled person’s tax credit have a key role to play in eliminating poverty, and the extra sums available to families in paid work are welcome. The impact on poverty will be diminished unless take-up of the tax credits is high. This report shows that take-up of the tax credits will be reduced, unless people are given more choice about how they are paid working families’ tax credit; there is improved publicity and information; and the rules on the childcare tax credit are amended.
Waving not drowning: a guide for parents trying to combine paid work and caring for disabled children
- Authors:
- LITVINOFF Sarah, MEARNS Janet, MONK Sue
- Publisher:
- Parents at Work
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 136p.bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The waving not drowning project has established a network for parents of disabled children focusing on issues around combining paid work and parenting. Research has shown that both parents and their disabled children can benefit emotionally and psychologically when the parents work. This book provides practical information and advice to help overcome the barriers to entering or remaining in paid work for parents who have disabled children. Contents include: getting into work, training or education; you and your job; childcare; you and your finances; social services, health and education; finding support and making changes; case studies.
Reviewing changes to the child disability allowance: giving parents a voice
- Authors:
- STRATTON Katrina, DELANEY Joanna
- Journal article citation:
- Australian Social Work, 53(2), June 2000, pp.5-11.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
A diabetes clinic at a hospital for children in Australia has been concerned at the impact of changes made in 1998 to eligibility for the Child Disability Allowance on families caring for a child with diabetes. A survey of those families was conducted to obtain their views on the changes. Results showed the number of families receiving Child Disability Allowance since the changes was significantly declined. The results formed part of a submission to the Department of Family and Community Services evaluation, giving parents a voice in this process. This project illustrates the capacity of social workers to attempt to impact on social policy within the context of their clinical practice.
Child care law for health professionals
- Author:
- HENDRICK Judith
- Publisher:
- Radcliffe Medical Press
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 168p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Aimed at health care professionals. Assumes the reader has no prior knowledge of the law or legal terminology. Covers the Children Act 1989 in detail.