Description: Now in its completely updated second edition, this accessible guide provides essential information about how the law can be used to promote good practice and policy development for disabled children and young people. The authors take an anti-discriminatory and inclusive approach that involves parents and children in decision-making and advocacy.
Brief description: Luke Clements is a solicitor and Senior Research Fellow of the School of Law, Cardiff University. He has written widely on community care and the rights of disabled people and undertakes training in the public and voluntary sectors. He has extensive legal experience of representing disabled children, adults and their families.
Review Quotes: This second edition of Disabled Children and the Law, written by two lawyers and a social work academic as a guide for practitioners, policy makers, students and families to using the law to promote good practice and policy development for disabled children and young people, has been revised to include new research and to take account of the changes, arising from the 2004 Children Act in the overlapping responsibilities of social services, health and education towards disabled children and young people... This excellent and comprehensive guide should prove invaluable to practitioners, lecturers and students of law, social policy and social. It places strong emphasis on the right of disabled children and young people to have access to the experiences that children without disabilities between the needs of children granted.--British Journal of Social Work