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Report on part one of the Northern Ireland Children and Young People with Disabilities research project
- Authors:
- MONTEITH Maria, MCCRYSTAL Patrick, IWANIEC Dorota
- Publisher:
- Queen's University Belfast. Centre for Child Care Research
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 121p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
First report in a research study looking at the needs of and services to disabled children and young people in Northern Ireland. Includes a literature review and a section on disabled children living away from home.
Children and young people with disabilities in Northern Ireland: part 1; an overview of needs and services; a summary
- Authors:
- MONTEITH Maria, MCCRYSTAL Patrick, IWANIEC Dorota
- Publisher:
- Queen's University Belfast. Centre for Child Care Research
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 13p.
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
Summary of a research report looking at the needs of and provision of services to disabled children and young people in Northern Ireland.
Child welfare policy and practice: issues and lessons emerging from current research
- Editors:
- IWANIEC Dorota, HILL Malcolm
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 304p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Explores the implications of recent research for all those concerned with child welfare and social work. Addresses topical issues as expressed by central government bodies and enquiries regarding services and policies relating to children in need of care and protection. Includes papers on: issues emerging from child care research post Children Act 1989; the legal and policy contexts for children's services in Scotland and Northern Ireland; the involvement of voluntary organisations in the first Scottish children's services plans; operationalising the definition of children in need from UK child care legislation; understanding and developing family support in Northern Ireland; the transition to adulthood of disabled young people in Northern Ireland; an evaluation of the Scottish pilot of the looking after children records system; educating looked after children; social work conceptions regarding black children in Scotland; the outcomes of a twenty year follow up of children who failed to thrive; communication between child and adult and the implications for use of the live link with child witnesses; and law, policy, practice and research in child and family social work.