By Gudrun Limbrick-Spencer BA (Hons) Oxon MA (Bham) 2001
This guide provides a comprehensive description of the practicalities of providing a keyworker service for the families of children who have a disability. The model and its rationale are explained and case studies illustrate how it can
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By Peter Limbrick in 2012
Introduction
My direct working experience in recent years has been mostly with young children who have a multifaceted condition and in this essay I am going to focus on two connected models of successful joint working for them and their families. At the same time, I
By Peter Limbrick in 2009
Introduction to the essays:
Team Around the Child, variously described as a philosophy, an approach, a model or a system, and often abbreviated to TAC, became an identifiable entity when it was named as such at the beginning of this century with the publication of Th
A manual for service development by Peter Limbrick 2004
Introduction
For many years parents of children with disabilities who have multiple or complex needs have been complaining about services being unco-ordinated and fragmented and about their children being treated in separate bits.
There
By Sheila West, BA, CQSW in 1994
From the back cover:
One Hundred Hours has pioneered a new service in Yorkshire for families who have a new baby with serious brain damage. It offers emotional support and practical help to the parents in their own home as soon as possible after discovery of t
By Peter Limbrick in 2018
Introduction
“This essay is for practitioners and managers in public, private and voluntary agencies that support families of babies and infants who have disabilities and special needs. It is also for parents, grand-parents and other family members. It argues for a modern a
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By Peter Limbrick in 2012
From the Introduction –
"Though interagency collaboration is easy to define, it has not proved easy to achieve and good examples are a rarity. While service providers, whether concerned with education, health, social care, law enforcement, the courts, housing, etc st
By Peter Limbrick in 2003
Introduction
This manual is about babies and young children with disabilities who have complex needs. They represent an expanding population and they highlight the need for services to be more organised, more integrated, more family-centred and more accountable. The manual
Cartoon © Martina Jirankova-Limbrick 2011