Please tell us about other useful resources or new developments.

A Jigsaw of Services: Inspection of Services to support disabled adults in their parenting role. DoH SSI, 2000.

From our website or Dept of Health website.

Enabling Parents With a Disability or Long Term Illness Joint Policy and Protocol. Norfolk Social Services 2006.

Download from our website.

Valuing People: Resources including projects and publications. Standard and easy read versions of Good practice guidance on working with parents with a learning disability June 2007 

http://valuingpeople.gov.uk  and enter “Parents with learning difficulties” into home page search box).

Good practice guidance on working with parents with a learning disability: Summary of relevant legislation and policy on how adult and children's services should work together to improve support to parents with a learning disability and their children. 2007  Dept of Health .

Easy read version from our website or http://valuingpeople.gov.uk. and enter “Parents with learning difficulties” into home page search box).


Other resources:

British Institute of Learning Difficulties

easy reading books for people with learning difficulties including
Pregnancy and Childbirth 2002, Sex, 1998. 

http://www.bild.org.uk/03books.htm.

CHANGE.
Resources in in easy words and pictures for parents with learning disabilities. Includes
My Pregnancy, my Choice,

You and Your Baby 0-1 years,
You and Your Little Child 1-4 years,
Picture Bank CD roms,
Accessible information service,

http://www.changepeople.co.uk.

Disabled Parents and schools: barriers to parental involvement in children's education. Jenny Morris 2004.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation.  

Disabled People's costs of living: More than you would think. 2004.

 JRF Foundation and Disability Alliance.

Disabled Parents: examining research assumptions. R Olsen and M Wates, 2003. Research in Practice. http://www.rip.org.uk/.

Finding the right support? A review of issues and positive practice in supporting parents with learning difficulties and their children.

http://www.baringfoundation.org.uk/Findingrightsupport.pdf .

Finding the right support? Summary. 

http://www.baringfoundation.org.uk/FRSupportSummary.pdf.

Learning Curves. The Assessment of Parents with a Learning Disability. 2004.
A manual for practitioners by Penny Morgan and Andy Goff, Norfolk LSCB.

From our  website or http://www.lscb.norfolk.gov.uk/learningCurves.pdf

Miscarriage.

Booklets about miscarriage and pregnancy loss. Standard, D/deaf and easy read versions.
Other leaflets include Men and Miscarriage and talking to children about miscarriage. 

From Miscarriage Association  http://www.miscarriageassociation.org.uk/

Plain Facts magazine for people with learning difficulties and their supporters, from the Norah Fry Research Centre. http://www.bristol.ac.uk/norahfry/right-support/parentsinfo.html#Plain.

Includes Getting the right support and books about Court processes.

Pregnancy and Disability: Guidance for midwives and nurses.

Royal College of Nursing 2007.  From our website or RCN website.

Special Parenting Service: Teaching programme to assist parents with learning disabilities to support their families. Dr Sue McGraw, 5 Walsingham Place, Truro TR1 2RP, Tel:01872 356040.

I Want to be a Good Parent by Sue McGaw. Five illustrated booklets giving practical and easy to follow advice for parents with learning disabilities. “What's it like to be a parent?” “Children need healthy food” “Children need to be clean, healthy and warm” “Children need to be safe” and “Children need love” Dr Sue McGraw.

http://www.cornwall.nhs.uk/specialparentingservices/index.asp.

Supported Parenting: Tim Booth and Wendy Booth.

Legal issues and analysis, links to local initiatives.

http://www.supported-parenting.com.

Social Care Institute for Excellence: http://www.scie.org.uk.
Website resources include:

Supporting Disabled Parents. 2006 Literature Review and Good Practice Survey.     Knowledge review 11.

Working together to support disabled parents 2007 Resource guide 9.

Also: Helping parents with a physical or sensory impairment in their role as parents.  2005 Research briefing 13.

Helping parents with learning disabilities in their role as parents 2005 Research briefing 14.

Parenting Capacity and Substance Misuse 2005 Research briefing 6.

The Health and Well-being of Young Carers 2005 Research briefing 11.

Stress and resilience factors in parents with mental health problems and their children. 2008 Research briefing 23.

Experiences of children and young people caring for a parent with a mental health problem 2008 Research briefing 24.

Poverty, parenting and social exclusion. e-learning resource 2008.

The Right Support: Report of the Task Force on Supporting Disabled Adults in their Parenting Role. Jenny Morris, 2003.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation. http://www.jrf.org.uk.

They Said What? Some common myths about disabled parents and Community Care legislation. Jenny Morris, 2004.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation http://www.jrf.org.uk.


Think Parent: Supporting Disabled Adults as Parents. Olsen R., Tyers H. 2004. http://www.nfpi.org/data/publications/.

What Works For Parents With Learning Disabilities? Sue McGaw and Tony Newman 2005. http://www.barnardos.org.uk/resources.

Working Together with Parents Network.

Supporting parents with learning disabilities and their children.  Aims to spread positive practice and to promote policy change, so that parents with learning disabilities and their children can get better support. c/o Norah Fry Research Centre http://www.bristol.ac.uk/norahfry/right-support/ .