This report presents a number of papers and workshop reports from a conference on family based respite care. The workshop reports discuss: the implications of the Children Bill for children in residential schools and local authority care; respite care and welfare rights; raising the profile of family based respite care; ...
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 ...
A residential workshop was held at the King's Fund College in Bayswater to explore the issues arising when children with learning difficulties cannot be cared for by their own parents. This book provides a summary of the workshop discussions and the major issues raised, as well as the invited papers ...