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New deal for disabled people: survey of registrants: report of cohort 3
- Authors:
- LEGGE Kate, et al
- Publisher:
- Corporate Document Services; Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 250p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
The survey reported here was carried out as part of the extensive programme of evaluation of the New Deal for Disabled People (NDDP). NDDP is a voluntary programme that aims to help people with a disability or health condition move into sustained employment. Around 65 Job Brokers, who are a mix of public, private, and voluntary sector organisations, deliver the programme. The report presents findings from the survey of a third cohort of people who have registered with NDDP, and it examines participants' characteristics, their experiences of, and views on, the programme, including early employment outcomes. The survey design allows comparisons to be made between Pathways to Work pilot areas and non-pilot areas and between new and existing Job Brokers. The survey entailed face-to-face Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing with people who were registered with NDDP between August and October 2004, and fieldwork was conducted between February and May 2005. Interviews were achieved with 2,531 respondents. The evaluative research programme also includes qualitative research with key stakeholders, including clients, staff and employers, a survey of employers, a survey of Job Brokers, and an impact assessment and cost benefit analysis. This report was produced by a team of researchers from the Centre for Research in Social Policy (Loughborough University) and the National Centre for Social Research
The use of religion and spiritual strategies in rehabilitation
- Author:
- MORRISON-ORTON Debra J.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 4(1/2), 2005, pp.5-41.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
In this study, in-depth interviews were completed to identify what, if any, religious and spiritual strategies rehabilitation professionals had utilized in practice. Four major themes evolved from participants: (1) denial of having used strategies; (2) use of the concepts for their own benefit; (3) use of the concepts for client benefit; and (4) the use of multiple religious or spiritual strategies. Implications for professional and continuing education are addressed. Lastly, suggestions for future research are highlighted. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Disability equality training: constructing a collaborative model
- Author:
- WALKER Steven
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 19(7), December 2004, pp.703-719.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Describes and discusses the process of a research project designed to provide a model of disability equality training for health and social care staff. Evaluates the interprofessional and participative consultative process when designing a programme based on a social model of disability. Analyses the methodology and conceptual thinking of the research process using qualitative data generated from service users and staff. Concludes with discussion of the challenges and opportunities for health and social service agencies committed to implementing staff disability equality
New deal for disabled people: early findings from the innovative scheme; a study carried out on behalf of the Department of Social Security
- Authors:
- BLACKBURN Vicky, CHILD Camilla, HILLS Dione
- Publisher:
- Department of Social Security
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 104p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The New Deal for Disabled (NDDP) Innovative Schemes in late 1997 to identify and test different approaches to helping disabled people move into, or remain in work. This report presents early findings from qualitative research which aims to assess how effective these schemes are in meeting their objectives; and to draw general lessons from the schemes.
Effects of short-term disability awareness training on attitudes of adolescent schoolboys toward persons with a disability
- Authors:
- MOORE Danielle, NETTLEBECK Ted
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 38(3), 2013, pp.223-231.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Background: Schoolboys (N = 156, M age = 13 years) participated in a disability awareness training programme that included guest speakers (athletes from the Paralympics and the Special Olympics), a documentary about people with a disability, a disability simulation activity, and factual information about different disabilities. Method: Participants were allocated to a training program or a control condition. Subsequently, control participants completed the training program. Attitudes toward disability were measured by the Chedoke–McMaster Attitudes Towards Children With Handicaps (CATCH) Scale and the scale from the “Just Like You” disability awareness intervention, before and after training. Results: Training improved attitude scores, and gains were retained at one-month follow-up. Conclusions: Disability awareness training that delivered relevant information by involving guest speakers with a disability, included documentary evidence about the lives of people with a disability, and included interactive discussion, was successful. CATCH and “Just Like You” are useful tools for measuring self-reported attitudes about disability. (Publisher abstract)
Evaluation of residential training provision
- Authors:
- GRIFFITHS Rita, DURKIN Stuart, MITCHELL Alison
- Publisher:
- Corporate Document Services; Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 117p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
Residential training is an employment programme designed to help long-term unemployed adults with disabilities and serious health conditions who are unable to access suitable local training to move off benefits into sustained employment or self-employment. This evaluation looks at the effectiveness of the programme.
Learning to use simple massage with disabled children: parents' experiences of a training and support programme
- Authors:
- SAVIN-BADEN Maggi, POWELL Lesley, BALOW Julie
- Journal article citation:
- Learning in Health and Social Care, 5(2), June 2006, pp.69-80.
- Publisher:
- Blackwell
This article presents a pedagogical evaluation of parents' understanding of their own learning in relation to the Training and Support Programme they received to enable them to undertake simple massage with their disabled children. Data were gathered from exit interviews with 17 parents who had been involved over the course of 2 months. Analysis was undertaken using interpretative interactionism in order to understand the relationship between parents' learning approaches and the training approach implemented. The findings indicated that the Training Programme largely adopted a behavioural approach that reflected the teaching practices of the trainers. However, cognitive developmental learning was also part of the overarching approach and, in the long term, this was the approach which fitted with most parents' needs. What was particularly apparent was the importance of the relationship between the learning approaches adopted and parents' desire to learn in a particular way. Furthermore, parents argued that the Training and Support Programme had high positive impact on their children and their family lives in general. This report is one of the first examples of an evaluation that sought to analyse and to understand the pedagogical tensions of parents' experiences of learning on a Training and Support Programme in the UK.
Present dangers
- Author:
- McNAMARA Martin
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.10.98, 1998, p.9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at why disabled people are vulnerable to depression and asks whether social care workers should be trained to spot it.
A qualitative analysis of child protective services practice with children with developmental disabilities
- Authors:
- SHANNON Patrick, TAPPAN Christine
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Youth Services Review, 33(9), September 2011, pp.1469-1475.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
The purpose of this study was to examine Child Protection System (CPS) practice with children with developmental disabilities in the United States. This study used an emergent design, ethnographic interviews, purposive sampling, inductive data analysis, and grounded theory building. Ethnographic interviews were conducted with foster families, administrators, intake screeners, special investigators, and workers in one local CPS office. Participants expressed concern about the ability to identify disabilities, placement options, services to meet complex needs of children with disabilities, training and support for families, collaborative arrangements with other agencies, and disability training for CPS workers. Findings suggest strategies for improving CPS practice for children with developmental disabilities.
Disability, health and access to training
- Author:
- FUMAGALLI Laura
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 58p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Providing adequate training for disabled people is a major objective of recent legislation against discrimination in the labour market for the UK. Using data from the 2004 British workplace employee relations survey, this detailed study analyses the determinants of training for disabled workers both at the individual and at the firm level – in terms of the likelihood of workers being trained by their employers and the length of training received. The findings conclude that disability can reduce the probability of receiving training, but has negligible effect on the duration of training if it is received. The authors propose that the findings pose a challenge for policy makers, who must make it possible for each employee to declare his health status, but on the other hand must set up preventions aimed at discriminating against disabled people.