LEADER 05093nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910783431303321 005 20230617004227.0 010 $a1-280-53816-3 010 $a9786610538164 010 $a1-84642-236-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000243987 035 $a(EBL)290719 035 $a(OCoLC)76898675 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000129401 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11144433 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000129401 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10078181 035 $a(PQKB)10987081 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC290719 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL290719 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10130562 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL53816 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000243987 100 $a20050413d2005 ky 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aConstructive campaigning for autism services$b[electronic resource] $ethe PACE parents' handbook /$fArmorer Wason 210 $aLondon $cJessica Kingsley$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (114 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84310-387-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""COVER ""; ""Constructive Campaigning for Autism Services: The PACE Parentsa??? Handbook""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Foreword""; ""1. Introduction""; ""What is the Parentsa??? Handbook?""; ""What is PACE?""; ""Working for all children with autism""; "" Why get involved?""; ""Why get involved now?""; ""Differences between LEAs: a???customised campaigninga???""; ""2. Before you begina???""; ""Separating two objectives: improving services for all children with autism and seeking to meet your own childa???s needs""; ""Working out what you want to achieve""; ""Working with other parents"" 327 $a""What are public authorities and services like in your area?""""3. Initial steps in approaching public authorities""; ""Thinking around the problems""; ""Winning people over""; ""Whom to approach, and when""; ""Getting officers to engage with you""; ""4. When the local authority approaches you""; ""Responding to public authority consultations""; ""Invitations to user groups and forums""; ""5. Building relationships and influence ""; ""Building mutual respect""; ""Making meetings work""; ""Identifying and developing common ground""; ""Putting across your perspective"" 327 $a""Assessing progress a??? and what to do if things dona???t seem to be moving forward""""Making use of political processes in local authorities""; ""6. Using external levers of influence: MPs, the media and the law""; ""Contacting your MP""; ""Using the media""; ""Using the law""; ""Local authority complaints procedures""; ""Using administrative procedures to hold authorities to account""; ""7. Common dilemmas faced by parent campaigners""; ""Do we go for short-term warfare or long-term diplomacy?""; ""Is there a danger that different parent approaches will undermine each other?"" 327 $a""8. Local government a??? structures, people and processes""""Funding""; ""Local government structure""; ""Whoa???s who in local government?""; ""Using local authority structures""; ""Local government mechanisms that parents can use""; ""9. Changes to childrena???s services: Policy and structures""; ""How education, social services and health fit together""; ""Bringing the services together: recent government policy""; ""Four common misinterpretations of government policy""; ""10.The current state of autism services""; ""The shortfall in skills and specialist provision"" 327 $a""Pressure on parents and families""""Conflict between parents and local public agencies""; ""Resources""; ""References and key documents""; ""Legislation""; ""Political resources""; ""Advisory organisations and contact details""; ""Other resources""; ""Contact PACE""; ""List of abbreviations""; ""Index"" 330 $aParents of children with autism know better than anyone else what educational and public services their child needs. They also know the deficiencies of the system and the frustrations encountered while trying to obtain such services. Constructive Campaigning for Autism Services is an essential guide to effective campaigning for appropriate services for children with autism, written by PACE (The Parents' Autism Campaign for Education).Based on the real-life experiences, dilemmas and questions of parents themselves involved in campaigning, this practical handbook explains how the system works bo 606 $aAutistic children$xEducation 606 $aAutistic children$xServices for 615 0$aAutistic children$xEducation. 615 0$aAutistic children$xServices for. 676 $a371.94 700 $aWason$b Armorer$01481701 712 02$aParents' Autism Campaign for Education. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783431303321 996 $aConstructive campaigning for autism services$93698807 997 $aUNINA