Best Practice Standards for Deaf Adults and Deaf Children

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Both of these documents are the result of partnership working between voluntary organisations representing the needs of deaf and hard of hearing people and the ADSS and LGA.

The documents are also available on the RNID website - www.rnid.org.uk

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Best Practice Standards: Social Services for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People

This document was jointly produced by ADSS, BDA, LGA and RNID in July 1999.  The full English version is now available to download above.  The standards have also been produced in Welsh and are available as a bilingual document from RNID Wales.

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Deaf Children: Positive Practice Standards in Social Services.

Jacqui Smith MP, launched this joint publication on 11 March 2002 at the Department of Health. It was produced by a task force comprising of ADSS, BDA, LGA, NDCS, NCB and RNID. It provides guidelines and resource materials for social care professionals. There are also parents' checklists to help parents evaluate the services they obtain for their children. The full report and an executive summary are available from RNID and NDCS.

The executive summary is available to buy or download as a pdf.