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An international conversation on disabled children's childhoods: Theory, ethics and methods (2020)
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This article brings together members of the International Advisory Committee for the Inclusive Early Childhood Service System (IECSS) project, a longitudinal study of interactions with institutional processes when families have a young child with d... Read More about An international conversation on disabled children's childhoods: Theory, ethics and methods.

Disabled young people's hopes and dreams in a rapidly changing society: A co-production peer research study (2020)
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The idea that disabled young people should be at the centre of decision making about their future is promoted in policy, practice and research, yet this often translates into a narrow agenda on transitions through service and benefits systems. In thi... Read More about Disabled young people's hopes and dreams in a rapidly changing society: A co-production peer research study.

The PMLD ambiguity: Articulating the life-worlds of children with profound and multiple learning disabilities (2015)
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The PMLD Ambiguity questions the passive construction of children and adults with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) viewing PMLD people as having complex, dynamic and varied forms of shared and personal experience. It is based on Ben... Read More about The PMLD ambiguity: Articulating the life-worlds of children with profound and multiple learning disabilities.

Disabled children’s childhood studies: A distinct approach? (2014)
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© 2014, © 2014 Taylor & Francis. This paper suggests that the emergence of disabled children’s childhood studies as an area of study offers a distinct approach to inquiry; it represents a significant shift away from the long-standing deficit discou... Read More about Disabled children’s childhood studies: A distinct approach?.

A critical analysis of workforce development research use in the transformation of children’s services (2014)
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Summary: This article is based on a study commissioned to find out how agencies providing children’s services in England used workforce development research in the transformation of children’s services. Workforce development research is primarily abo... Read More about A critical analysis of workforce development research use in the transformation of children’s services.

Social work and disabled children's childhoods: A foucauldian framework for practice transformation (2010)
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This paper examines how social work operates as a system of exclusion and inclusion and influences disabled children's childhoods. It is based on an action research project that aimed to promote 'listening' to disabled children in social work. A Fouc... Read More about Social work and disabled children's childhoods: A foucauldian framework for practice transformation.

Power, participation and post modernism: User and practitioner participation in mental health social work education (1997)
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The focus of this paper is service user and social work practitioner participation in the teaching for the mental health social work course. A review of the programme seeks to illuminate the value and significance of participation. The obstacles expo... Read More about Power, participation and post modernism: User and practitioner participation in mental health social work education.

Points of view (1996)
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