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Rethinking disability policy |
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York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2011. 20p., bibliog. |
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There are concerns that reductions in benefits and public services will significantly and disproportionately affect disabled people. This report examines the progress that has been made in disability policy in the last 20 years. It shows that there have been some key improvements in both the socio-economic experiences of disabled people, and in related government policies. Nevertheless, few disabled people are optimistic about what the future holds. Some aspects of the arguments made by disability organisations have been capitalised on by the politics and ideology driving recent and current policies in ways which disadvantage disabled people. In particular this has happened with the social model of disability and concepts of ‘independent living’, ‘user involvement’ and ‘co-production’. In order to experience equal access to full citizenship, disabled people require some kind of collective and redistributive mechanism. Such redistribution needs to be in the context of a value system which values diversity and in which disabled people are treated as belonging and contributing to the communities in which they live. |
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(Viewpoint; November 2011, ref. 2695) |
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benefits; disabled people; independence; independent living; policy; quality of life; social care provision; |
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www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/profile.asp?guid=754418dc-81cb-4ef5-867f-2068f89c3644 |
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