Mastering Whole Family Assessment in Social Work by Fiona Mainstone

Author:Fiona Mainstone [Mainstone, Fiona]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Social Work
ISBN: 9780857004840
Google: 5Q9tAgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2014-01-21T05:09:11+00:00

Disabled parents and parents with sensory impairment

UK labour force surveys suggest that around three million children live with disabled parents, parents with limiting longstanding illness and parents with sensory impairments. There is, though, remarkably little research about the impact of parental disability on children (Blewitt et al. 2011; Dearden and Aldridge 2010). These parents say they most want help with childcare, domestic tasks, and transport, and report that their needs are not met for a number of interconnected reasons:

•Children and adult services fail to co-ordinate with each other and the quality of assessments undertaken is sometimes poor (Morris 2003).

•The community care provisions for parenting support to disabled parents are not clear about entitlement and the law is difficult to understand (Goodinge 2000).

•The artificial divide between adult and children’s services increases fear, anxiety and vulnerability and discourages parents from requesting help (Wates 2002).

•Social isolation means that many disabled parents miss out on support and information (Blewitt et al. 2011).

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