Disability: Tools and data

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

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• Self Assessment Tool- Disability
  Use the latest self assessment tool to assess progress against national standards for services supporting disabled children.
  
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  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Congenital anomaly statistics 2009: England and Wales
  This report, which covers five registers of defects in England and Wales, looked at Down’s syndrome, congenital heart disease and neural tube defects such as spina bifida. Its findings suggest that birth defects are affe ...
  
  Publisher: British Isles Network of Congenital Anomaly Registers (BINOCAR)
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Special Educational Needs in England: January 2011. Statistical First Release
  The Statistical First Release (SFR) brings together the information available on special educational needs and related information about special schools in England. It provides analyses on the characteristics of pupils b ...
  
  Publisher: Department for Education (DfE)
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Training needs analysis: supporting family intervention key workers to progress
  A training needs analysis tool launched by CWDC for practitioners working with families working with complex needs. Completing a TNA will provide a framework for the joint planning of training and development opportuniti ...
  
  Publisher: Children’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC)
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• DFE Disability toolkit
  Earlier this year the University of Bath conducted research to pilot tools to support schools in identifying and collecting disability data. This research was developed in response to previous research conducted in 2008. ...
  
  Publisher: Department for Education (DfE)
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• Train to Care: Flexible training and consultancy from ACT
  Train to Care is designed to raise standards and deliver excellence in children’s palliative care by improving practice and building up knowledge, skill sets and confidence.
  
  Publisher: ACT (Association for Children's Palliative Care)
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• Improving children's trusts resource pack
  This is a voluntary, online self-evaluation tool to help your children's trust board to improve governance and value for money. Studies by the Audit Commission and others have found more work is still needed to ensure th ...
  
  Publisher: Improvement Network
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• Special educational needs in England: January 2010
  This statistical release brings together the information available on special educational needs and special schools in England.
  
  Publisher: Department for Education (DfE)
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• Disability equality scheme in schools - a self-evaluation resource
  This leaflet is a self-evaluation tool based on a grid with three headings: requirement, evidence, and comments/actions. It enables schools to self-assess whether they have the evidence to demonstrate they meet each requ ...
  
  Publisher: Department for Children, Families and Schools
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• Aiming High for Disabled Children: Improving data
  This document explores how data on disabled children is collected, managed and used at a local level. The focus of the research was fieldwork across eight health economies in England, underpinned by a review of peer-revi ...
  
  Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
  Published Date: 2009
  
  
• Parental Experiences of Services Provided to Disabled Children: 2009-10
  This publication sets out the main findings from the second national sample survey of parents of disabled children in England. The primary purpose of the survey is to measure parental experience of services for disabled ...
  
  Publisher: Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
  Published Date: 2009
  
  
• Parental Experiences Of Services Provided To Disabled Children - Top Level Local Authority
  Overall parental experience score
  
  Publisher: Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
  Published Date: 2009
  
  
• Parental Experiences Of Services Provided To Disabled Children - PCT's
  Overall parental experience score
  
  Publisher: Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
  Published Date: 2009
  
  
• PalliativeCare Toolkit: Improving care from the roots up in resource-limited settings
  A practical manual to equip, empower and encourage health workers in resource-limited settings to integrate palliative care into their work and their communities. It brings holistic and "can do" approach to delivering ca ...
  
  Publisher: Help the Hospices
  Published Date: 2008
  
  
• Disability Toolkit
  This is a one-stop information hub from The Children's Society, provides access to a wide range of information.
  
  Publisher: The Children’s Society
  Published Date: 2008