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.

Subject terms:
needs, parental attitudes, parents, physical disabilities, service users, social work, social care provision, social workers, user views, attitudes, children, families;
Content type:
research
Link:
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ISSN online:
1365-2206
ISSN print:
1356-7500

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