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Disability
- Author:
- THORNTON Patricia
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 14, October 2002, pp.23-28.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Education and social services are often not working well together in transition planing. There is also poor coordination between children and adult social services. Young people who are disabled and in placements out of their local area are particularly likely to experience inadequate transition planning.
Rights of passage: young disabled people: the transition from foster care to adult life; a study of young people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- NATIONAL FOSTER CARE ASSOCIATION
- Publisher:
- National Foster care Association
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 80p.bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Describes what happens to young people with learning difficulties when they leave foster care and make the transition to adults' services. The research based its examination of policy and practice on the experiences and views of young people themselves. Contents include: organisation of services for young disabled persons leaving care; how the research was carried out; case studies; general finding.
Monitoring adult protection referrals in 10 English local authorities
- Authors:
- BROWN Hilary, STEIN June
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adult Protection, 2(3), September 2000, pp.19-31.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This paper reports the results of a study of the monitoring of adult protection referrals in 10 local authorities during six months in 1998.The information provides a useful window on the effectiveness of current policies and provides a baseline from which to anticipate the implications for workload and service planning of recent government guidance.