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Time to make the kindest cut of all
- Author:
- CARSON Grant
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.10.98, 1998, p.13.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author believes the Benefit Integrity Project to be an expensive and painful waste of time.
Disability benefits
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Disability benefits are one of the areas on which the Government is focusing its root and branch review of social security policy. Reviews research on the role of social security in the lives of disabled people.
A space of our own
- Authors:
- OLDMAN Christine, BERESFORD Bryony
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.10.98, 1998, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Many families with disabled children still live in cramped, unadapted homes. The authors outline the results of new research into what these families really want.
More than skin deep
- Author:
- HOLE Louise
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 19.8.98, 1998, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Explains the psychological effects that often emerge as patients with major trauma experience when they begin to recover from their physical injuries.
The cost of childhood disability
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
This study of the financial costs of bringing up a child with a severe disability brought together groups of parents to establish the minimum essential costs. Parents acted as their own 'budget standards committees', negotiating and agreeing the goods and services that they deemed to be necessary for disabled child to participate as fully as possible in the world around them. Outlines the finding of research conducted at the Centre for Research and Social Policy.
Personal assistance users and work
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The Government's New Deal aims to encourage disabled people to move into, or stay in, work. Outlines research which finds that severely disabled people who want to work can face a 'personal assistance trap' as well as the 'benefits trap'.
The number and characteristics of families with more than one disabled child
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Discusses how analysis of the Family Fund Trust database, which records grant applications to the government-funded Trust from families with severely disabled children, has provided the first estimates of the number of families in the United Kingdom who have more than one disabled child. The analysis has also provided evidence that these families have additional disadvantages compared with families with one disabled child. Secondary analysis of data from a national survey of over 1,000 families with one or two severely disabled children confirms and adds to that evidence.
Independent living: gender, violence and the threat of violence
- Authors:
- HENDEY Nicola, PASCALL Gillian
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 13(3), June 1998, pp.415-427.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Explores the perceptions and concerns of young adults with severe physical disabilities about independent living, access to services and the meeting of needs. Young women especially experienced difficulties about leaving home, because of their own and their parents' fears about vulnerability; some who did leave home experienced highly restricted social lives because of anxiety about neighbourhood violence. Found that few had established partnerships, but violence and sexual abuse from partners emerged as an issue for which there is little policy.
Reaching it's target: Disability Living Allowance for children
- Authors:
- ROBERTS Keri, LAWTON Dot
- Publisher:
- University of York. Social Policy Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 80p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Research study looking at access to Disability Living Allowance (DLA) among families with severely disabled children. Examines applications for DLA and looks at whether applications are made on behalf of the children for whom the benefit is intended, whether outcomes are consistent with the eligibility criteria, and the influence of family characteristics on access to DLA.
Home front
- Author:
- EATON Lynn
- Journal article citation:
- Search, 31, Winter 1998, pp.28-30.
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
The parents of severely disabled children may face a constant battle in getting proper aids and adaptations in their homes, but success can make a crucial difference to families' lives. The author visited two families who have met with varying success in getting their needs met.