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Crossing the boundaries: how training can improve joint working
- Author:
- ROYAL ASSOCIATION FOR DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION
- Publisher:
- Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 44p.
- Place of publication:
- London
In the current climate where working in partnership is both encouraged and expected, training plays an important part in this process.The aim of this good practice guide is to show how training can improve joint working, to show the benefits there will be for both service providers and people receiving services, and to give examples of good practice. The guide looks at what ‘works well’ particularly from the viewpoint of disabled people. It also covers what causes problems and what could be done to address these. Its intention is to encourage service providers and trainers to think about how training can improve joint working and to take action to put thought into effect.
Success in supported employment for people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Supported employment is a service that enables people with learning difficulties to find and hold down real jobs in unsegregated workplaces. An in-depth study of sixteen supported employees in South Wales looked at the strategies of supported employees, employers and job coaches for making supported employment successful. Self-advocates acted as consultants on the project and helped the researchers define what 'success' in supported employment might mean.
Participation: north and south; new ideas in participatory development from India and the UK
- Authors:
- MERRIFIELD Juliet, et al
- Publisher:
- Elfrida Press
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 52p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
These lectures review participatory development and joint worrking in social services, education and other provisions in developed and developing countries. Contents include: lessons from anti-oppressive movements; learning and cotizenship; overcoming disability; and participatory processes in the North, lessons from the South.
How to use the internet and create an accessible website
- Authors:
- LONDON ADVICE SERVICES ALLIANCE, ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND
- Publisher:
- National Information Forum
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 95p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide was written for the Forum by London Advice Services Alliance (lasa) in association with the RNIB. It is intended for people who have only a limited knowledge of the internet and not a high level of technical understanding.
Support staff in a sample of Australian community-based services for people with a disability: career intentions, personal characteristics and professional development needs
- Authors:
- DEMPSEY Ian, ARTHUR Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 27(3), September 2002, pp.201-214.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Staff characteristics and training are two influential factors in the design and development of human service systems. Despite close scrutiny of these components of service delivery in a variety of disciplines, relatively little is known about staffing issues in the disability industry. This article reports the characteristics, career intentions and professional development needs of staff from a wide variety of services for people with a disability in NSW, Australia. Staff were predominantly female, male staff were much less likely to regard their future career as lying in the disability field, and there was evidence that employers were providing some training to staff that addressed their professional development needs.
Abuse and disabled children: hidden needs?
- Authors:
- COOKE Pamela, STANDEN P.J.
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse Review, 11(1), January 2002, pp.1-18.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reports on a research project to examine current practices in recording the abuse of disabled children. The project aimed to identify outcomes for those disabled children who have been conferenced for abuse and to compare outcomes with a small group of children without disabilities. Postal questionnaires were sent to social services departments to estimate the incidence of abuse of disabled children, and to estimate how many children had been abused over a 1-year period. Schedules were also prepared for both abused disabled children and non-disabled children. Semi-structured interviews were also held with social workers to clarify some of the issues raised. Schedules completed over a 1 year period in two social services departments showed that they were less likely to be put on the child protection register than a comparison group of non-disabled children. Makes recommendations to increase the competence of authorities to protect disabled children from abuse.
The diversity training handbook: a practical guide to understanding and changing attitudes
- Authors:
- CLEMENTS Phil, JONES John
- Publisher:
- Kogan Page
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 168p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This handbook offers a practical approach to dealing with this sensitive issue. Providing guidelines, it contains advice for dealing with issues including stereotyping, prejudice, racism, sexism, homophobia, disability. There is information on designing diversity training and advice on appropriate techniques to help bring about attitudinal change. There is a discussion of diversity, what it means and what it is, and of the need to train and develop diversity awareness, measurement tools and techniques.
Direct payments direct control: enabling older people to manage their own care
- Author:
- HELP THE AGED
- Publisher:
- Help the Aged
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 10p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Summary of the seminar on direct payments organised by Help the Aged. The organisation is concerned that many authorities do not run direct payment schemes, while others have schemes for disabled young people but have not extended them to older people. From April 2002 authorities will have the obligation to provide these services.
Rethinking youth transitions: policy transfer and new exclusions in New Labour's New Deal
- Author:
- FERGUSSON Ross
- Journal article citation:
- Policy Studies, 23(3/4), September 2002, pp.173-190.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The central argument of this paper is that the policies developed by New Labour to tackle social exclusion amongst young people in particular are aligned with US workfare policies. In being so aligned they disclose the neo-liberal 'drivers' of reform which mark New Labour's understanding of social exclusion as a distinct rupture with the European social exclusion tradition. Through reviews of the effects of welfare-to-work programmes, and of independent evaluations of the New Deal for Young People (NDYP), the paper suggests that its impact upon exclusion, even in its narrower senses, is limited. It goes on to query some fundamental assumptions about how young people are understood to make 'transitions' into financial independence as employees, looking both at persistent inequalities, notably of race, class and disability, and at new forms of inequality that depend, in much more complex ways, on how young people are able (or unable) to use their powers as students, part-time workers and members of social groups, to adapt to changing and highly locally variable market conditions. These trends, it is argued, may explain take-up and outcome patterns in NDYP. The paper concludes that there is a serious question as to whether it can ever 'lift' the most marginalized groups out of exclusion.
Community development: emerging lessons from Eastern Europe
- Authors:
- McCABE Angus, HARRIS Val
- Journal article citation:
- Talking Point, 202, August 2002, pp.1-4.
- Publisher:
- Association of Community Workers
This article draws on the work undertaken by members of the Federation of Community Work Training Groups, the University of Birmingham and other colleagues in Eastern Europe since 1999. The report explores the extent the extent to which within the UK context, approaches to regeneration have been imported from the USA, but argues that valuable lessons from emerging patterns of community development in Eastern Europe have been largely ignored.