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Contemporary advocacy: providing advocacy for young people with verbal and communication difficulties
- Authors:
- BOYLAN Jane, DALRYMPLE Jane, STARLIING Ros
- Journal article citation:
- Childright, 225, April 2006, pp.28-31.
- Publisher:
- Children's Legal Centre
This article looks at Xpress, a well established advocacy service in East Sussex which provides advocacy for children and young people between the ages of eight and 21 years old. These children are either 'looked after' by a local authority or have left care, or have a learning or physical disability or a mental health difficulty. Many of the children have serious difficulties communicating verbally.
Advocacy: the challenges of providing advocacy for children and young people with communication impairments
- Author:
- SHERWOOD Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Childright, 211, November 2004, pp.17-18.
- Publisher:
- Children's Legal Centre
Communication and the concomitant ability to express wishes and opinions are regarded as a basic human right. This is supported by numerous policy and legislative documents: the Children Act 1989 requires the court to have regard to 'the ascertainable wishes and feelings of the child'; the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child refers to 'the views of the child being given due weight in accordance with ... age and maturity'. There is, therefore, an increasing expectation, across statutory and voluntary services and in the legal system that young people should have the right to express their views and their voices should be heard. Discusses the problems raised when young people are disabled.
Independent visitors and disabled young people
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The Children Act 1989 requires local authorities to appoint Independent Visitors for children and young people who are looked after and have had little or no contact with their parents for a least 12 months. Research carried by the authors shows that a large proportion of local authorities are still not using Indendent Visitors. The study also demonstrates that disabled young people who are linked with an Independent Visitor are benefiting in a variety of ways.
Neither seen or heard
- Author:
- EATON Lynn
- Journal article citation:
- Search, 30, Summer 1998, pp.32-35.
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
The first studies from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Disabled Children and Young Person's Programme are now starting to be published. The author examines what they reveal about this often overlooked group.
CROA supports people like us
- Author:
- WILLOW Carolyne
- Journal article citation:
- Childright, 142, December 1997, p.18.
- Publisher:
- Children's Legal Centre
Children's Rights Officers and Advocates (CROA) give their views on Sir William Utting's report 'People like us'. This article focuses in particular on the recommendation that children and young people who are looked after should have access to children's rights officers.
Listening to disabled youth
- Author:
- ROBINSON Jacky
- Journal article citation:
- Childright, 140, October 1997, pp.5-6.
- Publisher:
- Children's Legal Centre
Looks at society's failure to listen to disabled children and young people and the negative impact this can have. Discusses advocacy as a way of ensuring children are heard.
Listening to the views, wishes and feelings of disabled children and young people in the Quality Protects era
- Author:
- KHAN John
- Publisher:
- Council for Disabled Children
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 41p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Real consultation with children and young people with communication or learning disabilities still poses major challenges for professionals. It has been demonstrated that communication is possible, indeed essential, even when children have complex communication difficulties. Consultation with children and young people should not be viewed as an optional extra, but as an integral aspect where services impact on the lives of young people. As part of the Quality Protects programme the Council for Disabled Children has been working closely with numerous local authorities to find ways of involving disabled children and young people, not in only in their own statutory care reviews, but also in the development of the services they receive.
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.