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Consultation on private fostering: proposed new regulations, national minimum standards and guidance
- Author:
- WALES. Welsh Assembly Government
- Publisher:
- Wales. Welsh Assembly Government
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 104p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
A privately fostered child is one who is under the age of 16 (under 18 if (s)he is disabled) and who is cared for and accommodated by someone other than a parent, other person with parental responsibility or close relative. A child is not privately fostered if the person caring for him/her has done so for fewer than 28 days and does not intend to do so for longer than that. Carers and parents are required to notify the local social services authority in the area where the private fostering placement is made. The authority has the duty to satisfy itself that the welfare of the child concerned is safeguarded and promoted and may impose conditions on, or prohibit, the private fostering arrangement. The extended duties to be placed on local social services authorities are: to be satisfied as to the welfare of children who are proposed to be, or are being, privately fostered; and · to monitor the way they discharge those duties.
Disabled Parents Network information briefings: no. 3 services: how to find out about services
- Author:
- DISABLED PARENTS NETWORK
- Publisher:
- Disabled Parents Network
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 31p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Some disabled parents have a full community care assessment of their needs by social services, resulting in a care plan. Other parents contact social services for help only when they need to get hold of particular information, items or services. Specialist teams within health and social care services should be able to help with additional needs.
Disabled Parents Network information briefings: no. 6 direct payments and disabled parents
- Author:
- DISABLED PARENTS NETWORK
- Publisher:
- Disabled Parents Network
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Direct payments are cash alternatives to services that service users can use to meet assessed needs in the way that theyt choose. This booklet shows how they work and why disabled parents find them useful. The briefing also talks about using personal assistants to support parenting.
Clash of expectations
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.03.05, 2005, pp.44-45.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on the case of a four-year-old girl with physical disabilities and some learning difficulties where there was a gap between the parents' desired care package and what the local authority could provide when the families situation changed.
Teleshopping for older and disabled people: an evaluation of two pilot trials
- Authors:
- BARLOW James, BREEZE Mary
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 66p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Home shopping is an important aspect of community care services for older and disabled people, but is costly and complex to administer. As social services struggle to find the necessary resources to support them, new approaches involving internet- or phone-based 'teleshopping' services are being explored. This research, designed and tested several models for teleshopping. It has provided new information on user needs, possible teleshopping models, and on technology options and financial and legal issues. An intermediate teleshopping model, for use before internet access becomes widespread, is identified. The project also explored the technology requirements for a more sophisticated internet-based service that might be developed in the future.
Disabled Parents Network information briefings: no. 4 getting your needs assessed
- Author:
- DISABLED PARENTS NETWORK
- Publisher:
- Disabled Parents Network
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 19p.
- Place of publication:
- London
By law, every disabled person has the right to ask their local council to assess their need for community care. The aim should be to help disabled people to live independently and in their own homes wherever possible. The government gives guidance to local authorities about assessing disabled people’s needs and whether and how those needs should be met. A disabled person’s social roles, including parenting, should be part of a community care assessment.
Disabled Parents Network information briefings: no. 5 making a care plan to meet your needs
- Author:
- DISABLED PARENTS NETWORK
- Publisher:
- Disabled Parents Network
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Following assessment, a care plan is made to show how users assessed health and social care needs will be met. This briefing also covers service costs, charges and review.
Blinkered beliefs
- Author:
- GILBERT Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 22.03.05, 2005, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Looks at a recent report by the National Family and Parenting Institute, 'Think parent: supporting disabled adults as parents', which reveals that social services departments too often treat the children of disabled parents as 'in need' which can cause pain to the family. Highlights two examples of good practice, from Nottinghamshire County Council and the Royal Borough on Kingston, and summarises key recommendations from the National Family and Parenting Institute.
Teleshopping for people with limited mobility
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Home shopping is an important aspect of community care services for older and disabled people, but is costly and complex to administer. As social services struggle to find the necessary resources to support them, new approaches involving internet- or phone-based 'teleshopping' services are being explored. This research, designed and tested several models for teleshopping. It has provided new information on user needs, possible teleshopping models, and on technology options and financial and legal issues. An intermediate teleshopping model, for use before internet access becomes widespread, is identified. The project also explored the technology requirements for a more sophisticated internet-based service that might be developed in the future.
Mind the gap: a case study for changing organisational responses to disabled parents and their families using evidence based practice
- Authors:
- CRAWSHAW Marilyn, WATES Michele
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 23(2), 2005, pp.111-122.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
This case study describes work carried out by Making Research Count (University of York) project with social services and health agencies to help them develop services for disabled parents. The structure combined the presentation of relevant research findings over one day with follow up consultation and an additional day's structured input after eight weeks to develop goal-focussed implementation strategies. Adult learning theory, systematic organisational theory and practice around management of change and the system for Analysing Verbal Interaction were used. The evaluation suggested that it achieved some success in facilitating research informed implementation strategies. A typology for measuring change is suggested.