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Local difficulties
- Author:
- WHITFIELD Ann
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 23.4.92, 1992, p.26.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Looks at the continuing lack of provision for children with physical disabilities and their families.
Stand and deliver
- Author:
- KEEP John
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.8.92, 1992, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
SSDs are failing to meet their statutory obligations to disabled people. Reports on the legal background.
Wight for the job
- Author:
- DONALDSON Liza
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 16.4.92, 1992, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Reports on three private companies set up by the Isle of Wight SSD, which offer employment for people with mental or physical handicaps.
From control to choice
- Author:
- HEATON Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.3.92, 1992, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A service user comments critically on a Quality of Life seminar organised by the north west ADSS which was designed to help improve services for disabled people, and service users were invited to voice their opinions and be consulted by service providers.
Leeds liberation
- Author:
- THOMAS Terry
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 23.1.92, 1992, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
The Armley Resource Centre in Leeds aims to empower people with disabilities to lose their often enforced dependency on social services, whilst working within the constraints of the local authority.
Personal social services local authority statistics: residential accommodation for elderly and for younger physically handicapped people; all residents in local authority homes year ending 31 March 1986 to year ending 31 March 1991. England
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 89p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Personal social services local authority statistics: residential accommodation for elderly and for younger physically handicapped people; local authority supported residents, year ending 31 March 1992. England
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- n.p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
British social services: the Scottish dimension
- Authors:
- MURPHY John, McMILLAN Gill
- Publisher:
- Scottish Academic Press
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 202p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Looks at how the present unique Scottish social work system has developed from the Poor Law through specialist departments to a generic family social service, embracing children's hearings and offender services. Illustrates this against a background of major developments in the rest of Britain.
Cash for care: the experience of Independent Living Fund clients
- Author:
- KESTENBAUM Ann
- Publisher:
- Independent Living Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 100p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Nottingham
Research report exploring what happens when disabled people are provided with the money to buy in their own care services, and in particular at services bought from a variety of private sources outside the statutory sector. Based on interviews with disabled people.
Personal social services local authority statistics: residential accommodation for elderly and for younger physically handicapped people; all residents in local authority, voluntary and private homes, year ending 31 March 1991. England
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- n.p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London