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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.
Social work with children: the educational perspective
- Authors:
- BLYTH Eric, MILNER Judith
- Publisher:
- Longman
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 174p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Harlow
Aims to encourage social workers to work with confidence with other organisations and professionals such as teachers to help children whose educational achievement is poor. Includes chapters on: education reform in Britain; social work and schooling; education of children in the public care; children who care for others; school attendance; disabled children; pupils with behaviour problems; and protecting children from abuse and exploitation.
Community care in a rural setting: challenging the myth
- Authors:
- COPE Richard, PALFREY Colin
- Journal article citation:
- Social Services Research, 1, 1997, pp.33-45.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
This study explores the impact of the NHS and Community Care Act (1990) upon a rural community in South West England. The research draws on the views of service users and practitioners with regard to the provision of support services. Results of the research found a marked degree of reliance on family carers and indicates that vulnerable people and their carers hold pessimistic views about the prospects for their continued support by medical and social services agencies.