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Scottish Ministers’ duty reports: events with disabled people: May 2009
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Government
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Government
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The Scottish Government Equality Unit held three events with disabled people in May 2009. The events were organised by Inclusion Scotland, Scottish Council on Deafness and Scottish Disability Equality Forum. The four priority areas for discussion were: employability- help to find and keep a job, reducing poverty, transitions from school to post-school (college, work etc), and independent living.
Direct payments in Scotland: a joint position statement
- Author:
- UNISON Scotland
- Publisher:
- UNISON Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
This is a joint statement agreed between UNISON Scotland and key Scottish disabled people’s organisations, setting out their position on direct payments in Scotland.
Partnership matters: a guide to local authorities, NHS boards and voluntary organisations on supporting students with additional needs in college
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 83p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This guidance is intended for those involved in the decision making process in relation to how students with additional needs, whether they are young people or adults, are supported in Scotland’s colleges and those responsible for day to day management of that support. The aim is to provide greater clarity on the roles and responsibilities of all agencies that support students with additional support needs studying at college. The guidance contains a number of examples of how agencies have worked well together to provide the best support possible for individuals.
Adapting the adaptations process: tackling the barriers within policy and practice
- Author:
- MCCALL Vikki
- Publisher:
- UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 42
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
This report gives insight to the fragmented policy landscape in Scotland around adaptations, with further experiences gathered from England, Wales and Northern Ireland. There are many good practice examples throughout Scotland, and key stakeholders emphasise the important role for adaptations in the impact they make in people’s lives. However, the current systems that supports home adaptations in Scotland are fragmented, overly complex, and bureaucratic. These challenges undermine the preventive potential that adaptations can offer to service users. The report presents the perspectives of key stakeholders on how we can tackle the barriers within policy and practice within the adaptations process. Adaptations involve health and wellbeing-related home and environmental modifications for social, private renters and home-owners. In Scotland and throughout the UK, there are various adaptations processes that support the access, assessment and delivery of adaptations for service users. The report offers a new process for understanding the adaptations process, presenting barriers attached to governance, need awareness, information and advice, assessment, funding, design, delivery, evaluation & performance monitoring. Adaptations to homes and wider environments are essential for supporting health, social care and wellbeing needs, preventing health crises and future proofing homes for a diverse and ageing population. The processes that support adaptations, however, are fragmented, difficult to understand, and involve clear divergence between both local authority area and tenure. The evidence offered in this report leads to a clear need for finding a common approach across Scotland for supporting adaptations. (Edited publisher abstract)
How social security can deliver for disabled people in Scotland
- Author:
- YOUNG Shelagh
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Pagination:
- 29
- Place of publication:
- London
... people; as a key underpinning of that, incorporate the rights of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities into devolved law; ensure meaningful scrutiny of the new disability assistance benefits by disabled people and Disabled People’s Organisations; ensure that sufficient funding is provided to third sector organisations and support agencies including Disabled People’s Organisations (Edited publisher abstract)
Autonomy, education and the rights of children with special and additional support needs and disabilities in England and Scotland: a new paradigm?
- Authors:
- RIDDELL Sheila, HARRIS Neville, DAVIDGE Gail
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 43(1), 2021, pp.42-59.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Legislation enacted in 2014 in England and 2016 in Scotland attempts to boost the rights of children and young people with special and additional support needs in the context of education, particularly with regard to opportunities for their participation in decision-making and local planning, with governments in both nations claiming that the new measures place the UK at the forefront internationally on this issue. There are, however, key differences in the respective nations’ legislation and policy, as well as similarities, which the article explores. Using case studies, it then examines the central issues arising in each jurisdiction in the practical realisation of the relevant rights. The article concludes with a comparative discussion of the recognition of children’s autonomy in the context of education in the two nations, highlighting gaps between rhetoric and reality. (Edited publisher abstract)
The Kilbrandon Report and disabled children: some reflections 50 years on
- Author:
- STALKER Kirsten
- Journal article citation:
- Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 13(3), 2014, Online only
- Publisher:
- Department of Social Work. University of Strathclyde.
Fifty years after the publication of the Kilbrandon Report, which paved the way for the creation of the Children's Hearings System in Scotland, this reflective paper revisits what the report had to say about disabled children and young people. It also reflects on subsequent progress in how society perceives and values disabled children. (Edited publisher abstract)
Disabled young people and personal independence payments
- Author:
- EVER DISABLED CHILD MATTERS
- Publisher:
- Every Disabled Child Matters
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 22p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report raises concerns about the impact reforms to Disability Living Allowance (DLA) will have on the ability of young disabled people aged 16-25 to establish independent living. The report, based on the views of young people across England and Scotland, cautions that not enough consultation has been done with disabled young people to ensure that Personal Independence Payments (PIP), which will replace DLA from October 2013, meet their needs. The report urges Government to work more closely with disabled young people and to monitor the impact PIP has on them when it is introduced. The report sets out four principles identified by disabled young people to help the benefit system support them effectively: participation - the government needs to ensure that they are providing active opportunities for disabled young people to participate in the design of the benefit system; information - it is vital that disabled young people are provided with accessible information in a range of formats to ensure they are able to actively engage with benefits and assessments; advocacy - an independent advocate should be provided, where requested, to ensure that disabled young people are able to play an active role in their assessment and to get their voices heard; and choice - there should be an element of 'choice' given to disabled young people to enable them to access an assessment process that best meets their needs.
A fair budget: a discussion paper exploring the role of the RAS in the development of self-directed support
- Authors:
- DUFFY Simon, ETHERINGTON Keith
- Publisher:
- Centre for Welfare Reform
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 23p.
- Place of publication:
- Sheffield
This discussion paper describes a way forward for developing Resource Allocation Systems (RAS) in Scotland as an essential component of a sustainable system of self-directed support. It argues that, rather than fixate on one model or system, it is better to begin a period of genuine innovation and exploration in partnership with disabled people and families. The report suggests that the English experience of providing personal budgets provides some important Lessons for Scotland, but that there is also a danger of creating an unduly bureaucratic system that does not trust disabled people or professionals. The report offers seven principles to describe how an effective RAS should work, and an empirical process to measure the success of emerging models.
Government's response to the consultation on Disability Living Allowance reform
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 56p.
- Place of publication:
- London
On 6 December 2010, the Government published ‘Disability Living Allowance reform’, a public consultation which set out and sought views on the Government‘s proposals to replace Disability Living Allowance (DLA) with a new benefit, Personal Independence Payment. The Personal Independence Payment will continue to be a non-means tested, extra costs benefit paid to people who are in and out of work. The aim is to help disabled people remove the barriers they face to leading full and independent lives. The consultation period closed on 18 February 2011. Nearly 5,000 responses were received from individuals and more than 500 responses from organisations. This document outlines the responses received, from both individuals and organisations, and the Government’s responses to them. It provides further information regarding the replacement of DLA and the introduction of Personal Independence Payment for people of working age from 2013/14. The questions and responses are grouped into the following key themes: the need for reform; what works in the current system; the design of Personal Independence Payment; the assessment and review process; how Personal Independence Payment will be administered; and additional comments on the proposed reforms. Annex 1 summarises the next steps as a result of recommendations made from the responses.