Digest
| DOI | 10.1177/026455058303000322 |
| Published date | 01 September 1983 |
| Date | 01 September 1983 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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Single
Homeless
( 1 )
>
Supplementary
Benefit
regulations
which
apply
to
homeless
people
are
more
complex,
mvolve
more
discretion
and
are
more
directly
concerned
with
social
control
than
those
applymg
to
people
who
are
housed.
CHAR
has
launched
the
first
comprehensive
rights
gmde
for
single
homeless
people,
on
Housing
and
Supplementary
Benefit,
available
from
CHAR,
27,
John
Adam
Street,
London,
WC2N
6HX.
Price
£2
20
plus
27p
postage.
Single
Homeless
(2)
1
In the
three years
from
1979
to
1981,
Shelter has
noted
a
steady
rise
m
the
proportion
of
people
coming
to
its
centres
who
are
young
and
single,
as
a
consequence
of
family
conflict,
unemployment
or
leavmg
care
The
Organization
has
launched
a
£50,000
appeal
to
provide
housmg
guidance
for
young
people,
and
has
started
’Home
Base’,
a
senes
of
projects
to
persuade
housing
associations
and
local
authorities
to
provide
a
mix
of
short-term
and
permanent
accommodation,
m
London,
Birmingham,
Bradford,
Brighton,
Bolton,
Essex,
Glamorgan,
Gravesend,
Leicester,
Nottmgham,
Sheffield
and
Windsor.
Contact
Steve
Farrell,
157
Waterloo
Road,
London,
SE1
8XF
(01 633
9377).
Open
Mind
The
April/May
issue
of
MIND
Journal
Openmmd
features
Ron
Lacey’s ‘The
Unacceptable
Face
of Legal
Drugs’,
about
the
increase
m
tranquillisers
and
barbiturate
addiction.
Also,
John
McCarthy,
ex-
Wormwoods
Scrubs
Governor,
writes
about
his
frustrations
with
Pnson
bureaucracy,
and
Peter
Miller
warns
that
women
at
home
nught
well
be
exploited
as
a
cheap
and
msufficient
version
of ‘commumty
care’
Available
from22,
Harley
Street,
London W
1,
60pper
issue,
or
£4.50
per
year.
Children
in
Care
A
handbook
is
available
on
the
complex
new
legislation
governmg
the
placement
of
young
people
in
’secure
accommodation’
and
Youth
Treatment
Centres.
From
The
Chlldren ’s
Legal
Centre,
20
Compton
Terrace,
London,
N 12UN, price £2.50. CLC
is
monitonng the
new
procedures
and believe
that
the
new
laws
will
reduce
the
numbers
of young
people
locked
up
within
the child
care
system,
because
of the
stricter
new
criteria
which
must
be
satisfied
Self-Help
Directory
The
Sunday
Times
has
produced
a
second,
greatly
enlarged
edition
of
its
successful
and
useful
directory
of
voluntary
official
and
semi-official
care,
advice
and
mformation
agencies
m
Britain.
It
covers
a
vast
range
of
organisations
catenng
for
almost
every
problem.
From
Granada
Publishing,
at
£3.95.
Moving
On
In
June,
NACRO
published
Moving
On:
A
Guide to
Independent
Living
by
Helen
Jones,
detailed
advice
for
agencies
working
to
resettle
the
residents
of hostels
and
temporary
accommodation
into
ordinary
housmg.
Includes
helping
people
to
make
realistic
choices,
promotmg
an
environment
m
which
access
to
housmg
is
seen
as
an
integral
part of the
projects’
work,
forceful
advocacy
on
behalf
of
clients,
promotmg
learnmg
and
self-reliance,
and
contmumg
support
after
the
move.
Lots
of
examples,
hints
and
practical
points.
Available
fromNACRO,169,ClaphamRoad,LondonSW90PU,
price
£2.25.
Therapeutic
Day
Centre
The
APP
Day
Centre
started
as
the
Alternative
Probation
Project
m
Farnham,
Surrey
m
1976,
usmg
a
therapeutic
group
work
style
which
is ’virtually
unique
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