Financial Assistance for Families with Severely Disabled Children and Transport Costs

Financial Assistance for Families with Severely Disabled Children and Transport Costs

Families with severely disabled children were studied to identify transport-related costs which are not fully covered by current statutory provisions, and to identify the characteristics of children who most often incur these costs. Inadequacy of statutory financial assistance was confirmed by analy...

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Veröffentlicht in:Children & society 1999-11, Vol.13 (5), p.333-345
Hauptverfasser: Roberts, Keri, Lawton, Dot
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Assistance
Children
Costs
Disabilities
Disability benefit
Disabled children
England
Families
Family
Family Needs
Family Support
Financial aspects
Financial Needs
Financial Support
Foreign Countries
Grants
Intervention
Physically Handicapped
Severely
Social problems and social policy. Social work
Social security
Sociology
State Aid
Technology
Transport
Transport costs
Transportation
United Kingdom
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Zusammenfassung:Families with severely disabled children were studied to identify transport-related costs which are not fully covered by current statutory provisions, and to identify the characteristics of children who most often incur these costs. Inadequacy of statutory financial assistance was confirmed by analysis of grants from the Family Fund Trust. Contains recommendations for improvement. (Author)
ISSN:0951-0605
1099-0860
DOI:10.1002/(SICI)1099-0860(199911)13:5<333::AID-CHI549>3.3.CO;2-I