Disability: Guides and practice

This page shows the latest 15 resources to be added to the Disability guides and practice section of the site. New resources are added as they are published.

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• Disability hate crime third party reporting centre toolkit
  Disability Rights UK have launched a disability hate crime toolkit to raise awareness of when hate incidents or crimes occur. The toolkit is written for carers and people with all types of disability. It does not set out ...
  
  Publisher: Disability Rights UK
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• What Works database: evidenced interventions to support children's speech, language and communication
  The What Works database describes a range of programmes that can be used to support individuals, targeted groups or whole cohorts of children to improve their speech, language and communication skills. Developed by the C ...
  
  Publisher: The Communication Trust
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Emergency Healthcare Plans
  An Emergency Healthcare Plan can ensure that a child is treated promptly, receives the right treatment and has the right experts involved in their care. This part of the Council for Disabled Children's website includes ...
  
  Publisher: Council for Disabled Children (CDC)
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• How to involve children and young people with communication impairments in decision-making
  CDC has teamed up with Participation Works to create this guide which provides information and ideas about how you can enable children and young people with a range of communication impairments to participate in decision ...
  
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  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Good practice resource - Effective integration of pupils with disabilities and complex needs into mainstream school
  This example explains how St John Bosco School has successfully established a caring, inclusive learning environment where all types of difference are celebrated.
  
  Publisher: Ofsted
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• EPIC - Equality Participation Influence Change
  EPIC are a group of 16 disabled young people from across the country who are supported by the Council for Disabled Children to advise the Department for Education on changes to the special educational needs and disabilit ...
  
  Publisher: Council for Disabled Children (CDC)
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• NICE: The epilepsies in children and young people (QS27)
  This quality standard defines clinical best practice within this topic area. It provides specific, concise quality statements, measures and audience descriptors to provide the public, health and social care professionals ...
  
  Publisher: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• When your child has additional needs
  Finding out that your child has additional needs can bring about a whole array of emotions. Whatever stage you're at on the journey with your child, this guide will give you a basic introduction to a variety of subjects ...
  
  Publisher: Contact a Family
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• VIPER: Voice Inclusion Participation Empowerment Research
  VIPER is a three-year project to research young disabled people’s participation in decisions about services. A group of 16 young disabled researchers have worked in partnership with the NCB Research Centre, Council for D ...
  
  Publisher: Council for Disabled Children (CDC)
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Making GP practices more welcoming for families with disabled children: information for GP practice teams
  Contact a Family says that over 76 per cent of parent carers don't visit the GP about their child's condition. Many find it easier to go straight to A&E. This new guide makes practical suggestions for GP practices to ...
  
  Publisher: Contact A Family (CAF)
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• GP practice guide: supporting disabled children and young people - information for health professionals
  This guide will assist GPs in coordinating care for disabled children and young people. Clinical commissioning groups can also use the guide to get to know the roles of the different health professionals involved in supp ...
  
  Publisher: Contact A Family (CAF)
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• CECOPS (Community Equipment Code of Practice Scheme)
  CECOPS CIC supports central government, local agencies and providers from all sectors in commissioning and providing safe, good quality and efficient services, whilst enabling compliance with legal and regulatory obligat ...
  
  Publisher: CECOPS
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• A guide to end of life care (2012)
  This new resource provides information and recommendations for end of life care of the child across the sector regardless of setting. It focuses on principles of best practice in the care of the child and family before d ...
  
  Publisher: Together for Short Lives
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Palliative care for children and young people
  This framework supports the delivery of high quality, evidence-based care by nurses and health care support workers involved in the care of children and young people requiring palliative care.
  
  Publisher: Royal College of Nursing (RCN)
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Improving outcomes for disabled children by integrating early support and prevention services: Luton Borough Council
  Luton’s services for disabled children and their families bring together practice across health, social care and education services, alongside innovative short break and early support provision. The development of an ext ...
  
  Publisher: Ofsted
  Published Date: 2012