Authors: Steve Broach, Luke Clements and Janet Read

Disabled children: a legal handbook is an authoritative, yet accessible, guide to the legal rights of disabled children and their families in England and Wales. The authors expertly navigate the many, often overlapping, sources of law, explaining the difference between what public bodies must do to support disabled children and that which they may do.

Disabled children and their families have the same human rights as others, including the right to live 'ordinary lives'. The law in relation to disabled children is complex and frequently misunderstood by those who have duties and responsibilities towards them. Many families also lack essential information about legal matters which substantially affect their lives and about the ways the law might be used to assist them.

This handbook clearly sets out the law in key areas, in particular children's social care services, education and health care. It includes a summary of the key provisions of the Equality Act 2010, which are newly in force.

 Contents include:

• Legal entitlements
• Understanding disabled children's lives
• Legal fundamentals
• Children's services
• Education
• Health
• Welfare benefits
• Housing
• Carers
• Equality and discrimination
• Transition to adulthood
• Appendices: extracts from legislation, guidance and international conventions

Disabled children: a legal handbook aims to empower disabled children and their families through a greater understanding of their rights and entitlements. It is essential reading for the families of disabled children, their advocates and lawyers, voluntary and statutory sector advisers, commissioners, managers and lawyers working for public authorities, education, social and health care professionals, students and academics.

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Edited by John Harrington, University of Liverpool, UK
and Maria Stuttaford, University of Warwick, UK

This book brings together internationally renowned scholars to critically interrogate the development of rights based approaches to health. The volume integrates discussions of the right to health at a theoretical and practical level, and engages with the emerging systems of global health governance.

The right to health, having been previously neglected is now being deployed more and more often in litigation, activism and policy making across the world. International bodies such as the WHO, UNAIDS, World Bank and WTO are increasingly using or being evaluated with reference to health rights, and international NGOs frequently use the language of rights in campaigning and in more concrete litigation.
This book brings together an impressive array of internationally renowned scholars in the areas of law, philosophy and health policy to critically interrogate the development of rights based approaches to health. The volume integrates discussion of the right to health at a theoretical level in law and ethics, with the difficult substantive issues where the right is relevant, and with emerging systems of global health governance. The contributions to this volume will add to our theoretical and practical understanding of rights based approaches to health.

Visit http://www.routledge.com/9780415479387 for more details.

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Professional discretion has re-emerged as an issue of central importance in social work as a reaction to the intensification of management culture across the public sector. This book presents an innovative framework for the analysis of discretion by offering three accounts of the managerial role – the domination model, the street level model and the author’s discursive perspective. As such this volume will be of great interest to postgraduate students and researchers as well as professionals.

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