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Living options in practice
- Journal article citation:
- Caring for people, 6, August 1991, pp.6-7.
The Living Options Working Party in conjunction with the Prince of Wales Advisory Group on Disability aims to encourage the development of local comprehensive services for adults with severe physical disabilities and to enable users to participate in planning. Describes 3 projects.
Empowerment social work with physically disabled people
- Author:
- HOLDSWORTH Lisa
- Publisher:
- University of East Anglia
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 41p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Norwich
An exploration of the potential of empowerment social work to offer a service to physically handicapped people that takes into account their self-defined service needs and their rights to remain in control of their own lives.
Out of sight out of mind
- Author:
- LONSDALE Susan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 9.5.91, 1991, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Women with disabilities need user-led provision from social services if they are to lead assertive and independent lives.
A betrayal of trust
- Author:
- SUTTON Diana
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 23.5.91, 1991, p.7.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Queries the Government's decision not to implement sections 1, 2 and 3 of the Disabled Persons Act 1986, whose mechanism for user-led assessment and choice in community care are in keeping with community care reforms.
Reversal of fortune
- Author:
- OGDEN Joy
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 25.4.91, 1991, pp.19-20.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Reports on the work of Training for Users in Croydon, which trains disabled people to select applicants for care assistants' posts.
Fathers of children with special needs: new horizons
- Author:
- MAY James
- Publisher:
- Association for the Care of Children's Health
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 63p.,illus.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bethesda, MD
An introduction to the subject of fathers with children with special needs, with the aim of encouraging further research into the subject and to provide the impetus for new, innovative programmes designed to include fathers as integral to family based service delivery.
Building our lives: housing, independent living and disabled people; a conference report
- Author:
- LAURIE Linda
- Publisher:
- Shelter
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 90p.,illus.
- Place of publication:
- London
Includes chapters on local authority policy and practice; housing associations; user participation; independent living schemes (including schemes for people with HIV and AIDS); and design practice for independent living.