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Disabled children: challenging social exclusion
- Author:
- MIDDLETON Laura
- Publisher:
- Blackwell Science
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 175p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Focuses on thinking inclusively when designing, planning and providing services for disabled children. Addresses key issues such as: communication; family support; protection; confidence in services; advocacy; children's rights; and anti oppressive practice. Draws on disabled young people's own experiences of health, education and social welfare systems and offers explanations for continued prejudice against disabled people in an age of equal opportunity.
Services for disabled children: integrating the perspective of social workers
- Author:
- MIDDLETON Laura
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Family Social Work, 3(4), November 1998, pp.239-246.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article addresses questions about the appropriate focus and direction of social work with disabled children, by triangulating parental views with those of social workers. Parents of nine disabled children were interviewed following the introduction of a specialist disability team in an inner city borough, following the implementation of the Children Act 1989. The parents' views reflect confusion and the need for emotional as well as material support, the last framed variously as counselling, advice and someone to listen. Social workers' comments on these findings, revealed a lack of confidence in their own abilities, a lack of clarity in their role and increasing disillusion with the services of their organisations.
Consumer satisfaction with services for disabled children
- Author:
- MIDDLETON Laura
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interprofessional Care, 12(2), May 1998, pp.223-231.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article uses existing literature and research to discuss deficiencies in the field of total care for disabled children. Discusses what the reasons for this might be, given the explicit mandate in the Children Act for England and Wales to ameliorate the effects of disability. In particular it balances the parental viewpoint with that of the child, and emphasises the professional difficulties in managing that balance. It raises the complication of child abuse, which is still not widely accepted as a problems for disabled children despite overwhelming research evidence.