Disability, Discrimination and Local Authority Social Services: The Users’ Perspective

1997 ◽  
pp. 317-322
Author(s):  
Clare Evans
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Disability Discrimination

scholarly journals ‘Our legal responsibility…to intervene on behalf of the child’: Recognising public responsibilities for the medical treatment of children

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-41
Author(s):  
Jo Bridgeman
Keyword(s):  
Medical Treatment ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
The State ◽  
Parental Authority ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Legal Responsibility ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Professional Responsibilities ◽  
Seriously Ill

This article argues for recognition of public responsibilities to protect the welfare of children with respect to decisions affecting their health and medical treatment. As the quote in the title of this article, from David Plank, the Director of Social Services responsible for bringing the case of Baby Alexandra before the courts, identifies, early cases concerning children’s medical treatment were brought by local authorities to determine responsibilities to protect the welfare of children. In cases such as Re B (1981), Re J (1990) and Re W (1992), the court was asked not only to determine the child’s best interests but also to clarify the duties of the local authority, Trust, court and child’s parents to the child. The respective duties established apply to all involved in cases brought before the courts on the question of a child’s future medical treatment, whether or not the child is in the care of the state. Recent cases concerning the medical treatment of seriously ill children have involved claims of parental authority to determine the care of their child. To the contrary, this article argues that court involvement is required when parents are disagreed with the child’s treating doctors over the child’s medical treatment because of public as well as parental and professional responsibilities for the welfare of all children.

scholarly journals Confidentiality: Minors Assessed by Multidisciplinary Teams

1981 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 143-145
Author(s):  
Jean Harris
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Working Party ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teams ◽  
Assessment Practice ◽  
Final Draft ◽  
The University

This article is based on work undertaken at the request of my fellow members of a DHSS Working Party chaired by Professor Norman Tutt, Department of Applied Social Studies at the University of Lancaster. The terms of reference were: ‘to consider observation and assessment services for children and young persons referred to local authority Social Services Departments; to clarify the role of observation and assessment centres; to consider the promotion of non-residential observation and assessment; to consider what improvements in present assessment practice might be helpful or necessary and to make recommendations’. The report is currently in its final draft and has been sent to the DHSS for approval; and, since my contribution has necessarily been compressed into a few paragraphs, my colleagues suggested that I should seek an additional route to publication.

A Profile of Long-Stay Psychogeriatric Patients

1989 ◽  
Vol 155 (6) ◽  
pp. 782-786 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Hilton ◽  
Y. L. Ong ◽  
A. Richardson ◽  
M. P. Bender ◽  
A. F. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
London Borough ◽  
Comprehensive Picture ◽  
Psychogeriatric Patients

An assessment of 106 long-stay psychogeriatric in-patients in an East London borough was made using the CAPE and supplementary items in order to obtain a comprehensive picture of their needs; 51 long-stay residents in the care of local authority social services provided a comparison. Patients in hospital were found to be more disturbed, more disabled and more dependent than residents in local authority care.

Planning the Social Services: The Local Authority Ten Year Plans

1974 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-54
Author(s):  
Adrian Webb ◽  
Nicholas Falk
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
The Social

Social Work

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Uk

2020 is the 50th anniversary of a turning point in the development of social work in the UK. It is half a century since the creation of a unified association of social workers, the development of a unified training for social workers regardless of the setting in which they worked and the passage of the Local Authority Social Services Act.

Inter-Sectoral Cost Comparisons: Day Care for the Elderly

1982 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Knapp ◽  
Spyros Missiakoulis
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Care For The Elderly ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Area Health ◽  
Cost Differences

ABSTRACTIt is often argued that there are significant differences in the costs of providing public and non-public services. However, these arguments have almost invariably been based on crude comparisons of bald expenditure figures of rather dubious validity. In this paper we describe and apply a conceptual framework which attempts to place such inter-sectoral comparisons on a more reliable basis. Our application is to day care services for elderly people provided by local authority social services departments, area health authorities and voluntary organizations, although the framework has much wider relevance. Our results provide clear evidence to refute the oft-made assumption that voluntary services are universally cheaper than their statutory counterparts. Standardizing costs for the dependency characteristics of users and the activities of day units, we find that voluntary-statutory cost differences are dependent upon the scale of operation. Small voluntary units certainly enjoy a cost advantage, but larger voluntary units are unlikely to be cheaper, and are probably more expensive, than local authority units of a similar scale.

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