Twelve Involving disabled children and young people in research and consultations: issues, challenges and opportunities
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David Abbott
Abstract
This chapter focuses on disabled children and young people. It is highly reflective, designed to take stock of ‘where we are at’ in terms of engaging disabled children and young people — a group with a long history of exclusion — in consultations about public services, as well as in the design and implementation of social research. It develops the case on why to involve disabled children and young people. It reveals that one important reason is that research demonstrates that the views and concerns of children and young people often differ from those of their carers. It reviews the evidence of what works best in terms of both how to consult with this group on the services they receive, as well as how to involve disabled children and young people in the research process.
Abstract
This chapter focuses on disabled children and young people. It is highly reflective, designed to take stock of ‘where we are at’ in terms of engaging disabled children and young people — a group with a long history of exclusion — in consultations about public services, as well as in the design and implementation of social research. It develops the case on why to involve disabled children and young people. It reveals that one important reason is that research demonstrates that the views and concerns of children and young people often differ from those of their carers. It reviews the evidence of what works best in terms of both how to consult with this group on the services they receive, as well as how to involve disabled children and young people in the research process.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables and figures v
- List on contributors vii
- Introduction 1
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Current developments
- Education policy and policy making, 1997–2009 13
- Children’s social care under New Labour 31
- Health policy under New Labour: not what it seems? 51
- Towards a social democratic pension system? Assessing the significance of the 2007 and 2008 Pensions Acts1 71
- Minimum income standards and household budgets 97
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Current issues and debates
- Re-connecting with ‘what unemployment means’: employability, the experience of unemployment and priorities for policy in an era of crisis 121
- Facing the ‘dark side’ of deregulation? The politics of two-tier labour markets in Germany and Japan after the global financial crisis 149
- ‘Flexibility’, xenophobia and exploitation: modern slavery in the UK 173
- Mi Familia Progresa: change and continuity in Guatemala’s social policy 199
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Service user involvement
- Service users and social policy: developing different discussions, challenging dominant discourses 227
- Participation and social justice 253
- Involving disabled children and young people in research and consultations: issues, challenges and opportunities 275
- Responding to unhappy childhoods in the UK: enhancing young people’s ‘well-being’ through participatory action research 291
- Service users as peer research interviewers: why bother? 317
- Index 337
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables and figures v
- List on contributors vii
- Introduction 1
-
Current developments
- Education policy and policy making, 1997–2009 13
- Children’s social care under New Labour 31
- Health policy under New Labour: not what it seems? 51
- Towards a social democratic pension system? Assessing the significance of the 2007 and 2008 Pensions Acts1 71
- Minimum income standards and household budgets 97
-
Current issues and debates
- Re-connecting with ‘what unemployment means’: employability, the experience of unemployment and priorities for policy in an era of crisis 121
- Facing the ‘dark side’ of deregulation? The politics of two-tier labour markets in Germany and Japan after the global financial crisis 149
- ‘Flexibility’, xenophobia and exploitation: modern slavery in the UK 173
- Mi Familia Progresa: change and continuity in Guatemala’s social policy 199
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Service user involvement
- Service users and social policy: developing different discussions, challenging dominant discourses 227
- Participation and social justice 253
- Involving disabled children and young people in research and consultations: issues, challenges and opportunities 275
- Responding to unhappy childhoods in the UK: enhancing young people’s ‘well-being’ through participatory action research 291
- Service users as peer research interviewers: why bother? 317
- Index 337
