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The perceptions of welfare reform by Michigan families whose children have disabilities and welfare caseworkers
- Authors:
- LEROY Barbara W., JOHNSON Donna M., ISRAEL Nathaniel
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy Journal, 3(1), 2004, pp.23-37.
- Publisher:
- Haworth Press
- Place of publication:
- Binghamton, New York
This article examines family and caseworker perceptions of welfare reform and services as they relate to families who have a child with a disability. Interviews were conducted with 39 families and 77 caseworkers. Family questions addressed their perceptions of the welfare system, factors impacting their self-sufficiency, and their perceptions of needed programme changes. Caseworker questions addressed their perceptions of welfare practices and policies and their education needs related to serving families who have children with disabilities. Familial perceptions of the welfare system were validated by caseworker reports. Implications for service improvement are discussed.
Support for disabled people: a response from the Children's Society
- Author:
- CRONIN Natalie
- Publisher:
- Children's Society
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Children's rights in Romania: problems and progress
- Author:
- ROTH Maria
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Europe, 6(3), 1999, pp.30-37.
- Publisher:
- Russell House
Describes how Romania has responded since signing the UN Convention of Children's Rights in 1990.
Breeding poverty?
- Author:
- INMAN Kendra
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 29.10.98, 1998, p.10.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The gap between rich and poor has been steadily growing over the last decade with three in ten children now living in the poorest families. Asks whether Labour can reverse these trends.
Sexualities: personal lives and social policy
- Editor:
- CARABINE Jean
- Publisher:
- Policy Press,|Open University
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 184p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This book explores the choices that people make about their sexuality and how these can transform their personal lives. It analyses how social policy informs and responds to such choices through an examination of normative assumptions about sexuality and its role in forming, regulating and constituting welfare subjects, discourses, theories, provisions and practices. The authors illustrate that sexuality is simultaneously central and marginal to the concerns of social policy.They place particular emphasis on social policy as a site of regulation that restricts and constrains our personal lives, but also highlight how social policy might be used as an instrument of positive change.These processes are explored through such issues as: the significance of gender relations and identities in normative constructions of heterosexual marriage, the nuclear family and parenthood; the regulatory effects of policy-making on young people’s sexual experiences and activity and their strategies of resistance; and the normative standards of sexuality and the extent to which these have marginalized and silenced the sexuality of disabled people.
Supporting disabled children and their families in Scotland: a review of policy and research
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Findings
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Children, poverty and disability
- Author:
- REITH Lorna
- Journal article citation:
- Poverty, 109, Summer 2001, pp.10-13.
- Publisher:
- Child Poverty Action Group
The Government has made an ambitious commitment to eradicating child poverty within a target of 20 years and has introduced a range of policy initiatives and increases in benefits. Asks whether these improvements will reach disabled children or children in families where a parent is long term sick or disabled, and looks at what the Government is doing to address their needs.
Implementing the children (NI) order 1995 - researching the initial impact on social services provision to disabled children in Northern Ireland
- Authors:
- MONTEITH Marina, COUSINS Wendy
- Journal article citation:
- Child Care in Practice, 6(3), July 2000, pp.240-252.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The Children (NI) Order 1995 was implemented in November 1996. This article summarises the findings of a research project carried out by the Centre for Child Care Research studying the initial impact of the Order on the planning and provision of personal social services for disabled children and their families. The research found that, while progress has been made in implementing the Children (NI) Order in relation to disabled children, there is still some way to go if the underpinning philosophy is to be fully achieved.
Family breaks overlooked in new strategy
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.3.99, 1999, p.13.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Argues that the government was wrong to ignore family-based breaks in its carers strategy.
New ambitions, old dreams - the green paper on welfare reform
- Author:
- GRAY Jim
- Journal article citation:
- SCOLAG Journal, 252, June 1998, pp.91-94.
- Publisher:
- ScoLAG(Scottish Legal Action Group)
The author scrutinises the Government's green paper, 'A new contract for welfare', and laments the demise of the "cradle to the grave" philosophy which underpinned the welfare state from its inception.