Social Work and Disability by Peter Simcock & Rhoda Castle

Author:Peter Simcock & Rhoda Castle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-04-20T00:00:00+00:00

Social work assessment and disabled children

By the time a social work assessment takes place, many children and families will already have been assessed by other professionals. While this should provide useful information, social workers should also be aware of how these previous encounters have been experienced and perceived. Marchant and Jones (2000) highlight that assessments may have been based on a deficit model of disability and without any active involvement of the child. Parents have also reported that dealing with professionals has been the most difficult aspect of caring for a disabled child (DoH 1998a). Research has consistently identified common shortcomings in service provision:

substantial numbers of families report a ‘constant battle’ to find out about what services are available and about the role of different agencies and different profes-sionals; to get professionals to understand their situation and their needs; to obtain recognition of their own knowledge of their child; to negotiate delays and bureaucracy. A major reason for the problems families face with services is the multiplicity of agencies and professionals involved. (Sloper et al. 1999)

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.