This review looks at the problems faced by the 3,000 - 5,000 young people leaving care in London each year. Physical health is poor, with high levels of substance abuse, mental health problems are widespread, and the rate of teenage pregnancy is much higher than in the general population. Unhealthy ...
The findings outlined in this book describe a service in inner London that cannot be sustained because it is unable to meet the demands imposed upon it. Services in outer London are comparable with those in other English cities. The mental illness services are in a state of transition, and ...
This report presents some of the main themes that emerged from a series of workshops on various aspects of primary care organised and hosted by the King's Fund in the summer and autumn of 1996. The topics covered in the workshops were change in primary health care, frail elderly people, ...
The six case studies in this book describe how purchasers, one of them a fundholding practice, bought interventions to improve the health of local populations in direct response to information which had revealed particular needs. The case studies have been published as examples of good practice because this effective and ...
The purpose of this workshop was to provide the NHS Executive Patients Charter Unit with material and ideas for a leaflet on children's services. Services for children in hospital and in the community were discussed. It was recommended that the format of the charter should be accessible to parents and ...
This book describes the experiences of twenty families who have, living at home, a teenager or young adult with severe learning difficulties who has been classified by professionals as 'severely' or 'profoundly' mentally handicapped, and who also has 'serious behavioural problems'. It documents the lives of these families, and the ...
This project paper summarises the results of a survey of youth training in the NHS. The survey looked at the extent of involvement by the NHS in the Work Experience on Employers' Premises (WEEP) Scheme sponsored by the Manpower Services Commission and at the youth training being undertaken more generally. ...
This seminar, organised by the Renal Society, began with young dialysis patients talking about their treatment and lifestyles. The report goes on to consider the achievement of independence by the adolescent and the advantages and disadvantages of treating adolescents in a children's unit. Further discussion includes job prospects, educational aspects ...
This report explores a number of issues concerning the relationship between education and employment; changing views on employment and work in view of present unemployment trends; integration compared with the use of specialist provision, and special inputs to support integration on ordinary courses. The report includes individual case studies, lists ...
This study day, organised by the King's Fund, took as its starting point chapter 10 of the Report of the Committee of Enquiry into the Education of Handicapped Children and Young People (the Warnock Report). Main problems were that too few further and higher educational opportunities exist for school leavers ...