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No home from home
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.7.93, 1993, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Disabled young people often have difficulty in creating an independent life away from their parents and residential care can seem to be their only option. Shows how the experience can often be bitter and demeaning; and a difficult situation to move away from, even when residential establishments support people's wishes to live independently. Concludes that a better understanding of what it is like in residential care is needed particularly in the light of government plans to consign people to such care if their personal assistance costs are more than five hundred pounds a week.
Social exclusion and young disabled people with high levels of support needs
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 21(2), May 2001, pp.161-183.
- Publisher:
- Sage
There are significant differences between the concept of social exclusion adopted by the mainstream policy agenda and what social exclusion means to young disabled people, particularly those with high levels of support needs. Currently, the experiences and concerns of this group are not being heard in the arenas where policies are developed. The silence about their experiences masks an assumption that, to have high levels of support needs, means dependency and exclusion are inevitable. It is unlikely, therefore, that current initiatives to tackle social exclusion will address the experiences of these young disabled people as they grow into adulthood. In contrast, a human rights agenda offers greater opportunities to challenge the way young disabled people with high levels of support needs are "shut out" from society.
Growing pains
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.7.95, 1995, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
For many disabled young people who have spent most of their lives in residential care, leaving just means moving into adult residential homes. Asks what should be done.
Easy targets: a disability rights perspective on the 'children as carers' debate
- Authors:
- MORRIS Jenny, KEITH Lois
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 44/45, Autumn 1995, pp.36-57.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Looks at how the children of disabled parents are being defined as 'young carers', arguing that the way in which this is happening undermines both the rights of children and the rights of disabled people. Analysis of the social construction of 'children as carers' illustrate that researchers and pressure groups are colluding with the government's insistence that 'care in the community' must mean 'care by the community'.
A lot to say: a guide for social workers, personal advisors and others working with disabled children and young people with communication impairments
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- SCOPE
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 59p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This publication offers advice and information to social workers, Connexions personal advisors and others working with children and young people who have communication impairments. It will be of use in a number of settings, health, social services, education, and private and voluntary sector agencies. It is aimed at professionals who are not specialists in communication impairments, but who have responsibilities to assess the needs, and seek the views, of this important group of children and young people.
The best days of their lives?
- Authors:
- ABBOTT David, MORRIS Jenny, WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 15(3), 2002, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Many disabled children sent away to residential school have mixed feelings about their experiences. Reports on the findings of a recent study by the Norah Fry Research Centre.
Move on up: supporting young disabled people in their transition to adulthood
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 77p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Barkingside
Explores good practice examples of initiatives which prepare young disabled people for adulthood, and presents a set of guidelines based on these which are intended to apply both to leaving care services and those which are specifically targeted at young disabled people, some of whom may be leaving care, others of whom will be leaving home. In four sections; transition to adulthood and young disabled people; supporting this transition; rights and entitlements; and good practice guidelines.
Hurtling into a void: transition to adulthood for young disabled people with "complex health and support needs"
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 159p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Review summarising existing research into health and social services for disabled young people making the transition into adulthood and who have complex health and support needs. Identifies key questions for those commissioning and providing health and social services.
Don't leave us out: involving disabled children and young people with communication impairments
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- York Publishing Service/Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 80p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Explains how the author and her co-researchers set about obtaining the views and experiences of thirty young disabled people, many of whom were described as having severe communication and or cognitive impairments, regarding the plans and provisions made for them by local authorities and others. Describes the practicalities involved, including gaining consent, planning visits, using facilitators, equipment and communication aids, and being with the young people. Also describes how the project established a reference group of young people who could advise the researchers as the project progressed.
Care or empowerment? a disability rights perspective
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 31(1), March 1997, pp.54-60.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article challenges the notion of "care", arguing that people who need support in their daily lives have been constructed as "dependent people". Instead, the author argues, if we want to empower people we must learn from the Independent Living Movement, from the people who struggled against segregation and insisted that access to personal assistance over which they have control is a civil rights issues. Argues that the new direct payments legislation is an important stage in the achievements of a civil rights movement in any work which they develop on issues which are not of mere academic interest but which concern people's rights to choice and control in their lives.