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Grabbing some attention
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.1.94, 1994, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at action on recruitment, training and career progression for disabled social workers and talks to a group of disabled social workers about their treatment in social service departments.
Advocacy skills needed to deal with grant problems
- Author:
- SAPEY Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, June 1995, p.19.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Argues that social workers should be concerned about the means test for Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG).
The right mix
- Author:
- SMALL Emma
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 3.10.91, 1991, pp.21-22.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Reports on Wiltshire SSD's move to using Occupational Therapists alongside social workers and home care assistants in specialist teams dealing with people with disabilities.
The decision to go: disabled children at residential schools and the role of social services departments
- Authors:
- ABBOTT David, MORRIS Jenny, WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 14(1), 2002, pp.5-16.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Sending a disabled child to a specialist residential school may mean that live for much of the year at a school a long way from home. This article explores the views of social services staff on residential schools and the issues the face around how best to work with families who are thinking about a residential school for their child.
Community care for people with cerebral palsy: social work perspectives
- Author:
- BRIDGE Gillian
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 11(4), 1999, pp.15-26.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Using material derived from an empirical study in the London area of 58 parents whose children have cerebral palsy, this article examines the role and tasks of professional social workers. The subject is approached both from the perspectives of local authority social workers and those of parents. The findings that social workers feel restricted by community care responsibilities and by shortage of resources, and that parents are hostile and adversarial in their approach to them, echo the most recent reports from the Social Services Inspectorate. Argues for improving the training of social workers and for recognising that community are involves more than organisational responses.
Accessing assessment: the perspective of practitioners, disabled people and carers
- Author:
- RUMMERY Kirstein
- Journal article citation:
- Social Services Research, 2, 1997, pp.11-21.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Reports on the results of research which explored how social work practitioners were using the new forms of assessment procedures introduced by local authorities; and obtained the views of disabled people and carers on what they thought of these new arrangements for assessment. The study aimed to increase understanding of the barriers faced by disabled people in accessing support and assistance to live full and independent lives; to explore how carers viewed assessment; and to identify the ways in which disabled people and carers could play an active part in assessment arrangements. Discusses the implications for practice.
Art for who's sake?
- Author:
- CAWS Ian
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, September 1995, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
The use of art can help develop peoples' potential where case work fails, argues that the only arts development officer connected to an English social services department. Here he spells out how art should be an intrinsic part of community care policies.
Young, disabled and black
- Author:
- GAZDAR Saleem
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, October 1994, p.9.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Examines some of the specific problems of black children with disabilities.
Power cut prevention
- Author:
- SIDDIQUI Salma
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 22.9.94, 1994, pp.10-11.
Empowerment has become the cornerstone of community care. Yet, few managers fully appreciate the complexity of moving from a professional-led service to one based on an equitable sharing of power between clients and practitioners. A research project that explored the possibilities and the level of consumer empowerment in services for physically disabled people found that empowerment challenged traditional models of service delivery.
New technology in the human services: an equaliser of opportunities?
- Authors:
- RAFFERTY Jackie, WILKINSON Ann
- Journal article citation:
- New Technology in the Human Services, 6(2), Summer 1992, pp.2-12.
- Publisher:
- Centre for Human Service Technology
Describes the tensions between equal opportunities, human service agencies and the information technology industry; the antagonism of many in the statutory social services field in the U.K. towards information technology; the different approach in the U.K. voluntary sector; and the role of computers with women, the black community, and people with a disability.