This booklet is published for S.O.P.H.I.E. (Society of Parents Helping in Education) by the King's Fund. It accompanies a video `Shared Concern' which tackles the difficulties doctors experience when they face the task of informing parents that their baby or young child has a disability. S.O.P.H.I.E. believes this video and ...
This workshop was arranged to bring together those who were at the leading edge of developing quality assurance in community care for people with learning difficulties, those with mental health problems, people with physical disabilities and frail elderly people. Three main issues were examined: the definition of quality assurance in ...
Since 1980 a group of workers organising family-based relief care schemes has met on a regular basis, to look at particular aspects of respite care, and to organise occasional workshops. Although the schemes represented by the group vary widely, features of respite care offered by families have emerged, with workers ...