This paper describes innovatory schemes and progress in bringing children with learning difficulties out of hospital. At the conference, Barnardo's N.W. Division presented information about their professional fostering scheme, followed by Portsmouth and S.E. Hampshire Health Authority's provision of alternative accommodation in the community for mentally handicapped children. A dehospitalisation ...
A summary of social characteristics in all district health authorities in England has not been published before. The items presented here are about children, the elderly, housing, migration and economic factors, and include a selection of composite scores. Similar information about electoral wards may be used to identify the most ...
The conference was based on the Consumers' Association report "Children in Hospital" which investigated the extent to which hospitals have implemented DHSS recommendations since the Platt Report. Its aim was to develop the concept of change and in particular how staff with responsibility for children in a general hospital face ...
This discussion paper reports a study of the ways in which short-term residential care services for mentally handicapped children are being developed by different agencies and in different parts of England. The idea behind such provision is to provide families with a break from a child who may be causing ...
This conference brought together different professionals involved in caring for sick children. The conference was opened by the chairman of the Children's Committee who described this committee's advisory role to the Secretary of State on development and co-ordination of health and personal social services for children. Other speakers covered the ...
This study day aimed to help parents of mentally handicapped children to look ahead to the position of their children as they reached adulthood and to become better informed about their rights and about the services available to them. Five workshops were held dealing with different aspects: employment and further ...
This conference was arranged by the King's Fund Centre in conjunction with the Renal Society and the Royal College of Nursing's Renal and Transplant Forum. It brought together medical professionals, patients and their relatives, as well as dieticians, social workers, teachers and occupational therapists. Topics covered included the effects of ...
This conference was arranged by the King's Fund Centre in conjunction with the Renal Society and the Royal College of Nursing's Renal and Transplant Forum. It brought together medical professionals, patients and their relatives, as well as dieticians, social workers, teachers and occupational therapists. Topics covered included the effects of ...
This is the record of a workshop on services for mentally handicapped children, organised jointly, in March 1976, by King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, Association of Professions for the Mentally Handicapped and Institute of Mental Subnormality.
Parents and professionals have a common objective, in the pursuit of which each brings differing skills and activities; their joint aim is to aid the development children with learning difficulties, and to enable that child to lead as good a quality of life as possible. the primary task falls to ...