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Charlotte Foulkes, a single parent with arthritis from London, UK, talks to Shanta Everington about her experience of social services needs assessments from both adult, and children and families teams.
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Joan Inglis, project manager for Support for Disabled Parents in Norfolk, UK, discusses the development and implementation of a joint protocol between children and adult social services departments.
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Sarah Allen, a disabled mother living in Catalonia, Spain, talks about her experience of moving from England and compares cultural attitudes towards family life and disability.
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Independent writer, researcher and disabled parent Michele Wates, describes a project by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) in the UK, encouraging local authorities to develop protocols and joined-up systems which support disabled parent...
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Julia Winter is a disabled mother and has used direct payments for eight years. She works as a Direct Payment Support Services Manager for Essex Coalition of Disabled People in Chelmsford, Essex, UK. Julia talks to DPPI Information Officer, Shanta Ev...
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Yuen Har Tse, who lives in the UK, talks about the struggle she had to find help to enable her to take her children out.
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This long-anticipated National Service Framework – which has much to say about disadvantaged groups, including disabled parents – is much welcomed, and offers an energising vision to overcome barriers to maternity services. Michele Wates...
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In DPPi issues 24 and 26, Penny Roberts from West Yorkshire, UK, described the incredible battle that she had to go through in order to retain custody of her unborn child and to obtain funding for care for both of them at home. Now, Penny looks back...
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In 1995, whilst in the USA, Penny Roberts was involved in a parachuting accident in which she received multiple fractures and spinal injuries. Penny is tetraplegic but has some movement in her arms and wrists. Penny now lives in West Yorkshire. She h...
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Julie Brown is Parentcraft Co-ordinator at the antenatal Clinic, University Hospital NHS Trust, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK. She describes the achievements of a multi-professional working group that has developed new systems for refe...
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