by David Niven | Feb 5, 2014 | Children, Mental Health, Social Work
Is the Social Model of Disability socially accepted? I don’t think so. For many years now, thinking has mainly leant towards the Social Model of Disability where it’s not a persons impairment that makes them disabled, but a lack of provision in society and...
by David Niven | Nov 1, 2013 | Children & Social Care, Social Work, Training
Disabled children and the relation to child abuse I strongly believe that safeguarding disabled children practice should be no different no matter what the circumstances are. Children are children and the right to a safe and high quality childhood should be the aim of...
by David Niven | Oct 14, 2013 | Children, Children & Social Care, Mental Health, Sexual Abuse & Domestic Violence
I’d like to talk a little bit about the needs of disabled children who have, of course, exactly the same human rights to be safe from neglect and abuse and be protected from harm in the same way as their non disabled peers. We know that research has shown that...
