The purpose of the report (Terms of Reference) is to review national implementation of the European Employment Strategy from a disability equality perspective, and to provide the Commission with useful evidence in support of disability policy mainstreaming. More specifically, the report will review implementation of EU Employment Strategy and the PROGRESS initiative with reference to policy implementation evidence from European countries, including the strategies addressed in the EU Disability Action Plan (such as flexicurity and supported employment).
The purpose of the report (Terms of Reference) is to review national implementation of the European Employment Strategy from a disability equality perspective, and to provide the Commission with useful evidence in support of disability policy mainstreaming. More specifically, the report will review implementation of EU Employment Strategy and the PROGRESS initiative with reference to policy implementation evidence from European countries, including the strategies addressed in the EU Disability Action Plan (such as flexicurity and supported employment).
Identifies and explores the different means by which equality is promoted in Ireland. These means include equality legislation, equality institutions, equality mainstreaming and positive action measures. This book explores the casework under the Irish equality legislation and casts a critical eye on the provisions in that legislation, mixing practical experience with an academic perspective.
Identifies and explores the different means by which equality is promoted in Ireland. These means include equality legislation, equality institutions, equality mainstreaming and positive action measures. This book explores the casework under the Irish equality legislation and casts a critical eye on the provisions in that legislation, mixing practical experience with an academic perspective.
This publication aims to acknowledge the challenge faced by childcare providers in ensuring that their equal opportunities/diversity polices are developed and implemented. Practitioners are positively supported to identify their own difficulties around diversity and to address their own fears.
This publication aims to acknowledge the challenge faced by childcare providers in ensuring that their equal opportunities/diversity polices are developed and implemented. Practitioners are positively supported to identify their own difficulties around diversity and to address their own fears.
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Author:WILLOUGHBY Marie Title: Every child matters: developing anti-discriminatory practice in early childhood services Publisher: Barnardos, 2004
Summary
This publication of Irish Barnados aims to acknowledge the challenge faced by childcare providers in ensuring that their equal opportunities/diversity polices are developed and implemented. Practitioners are positively supported to identify their own difficulties around diversity and to address their own fears.
Context
All children are entitled to equality of access and to opportunities to enjoy and to learn within a stimulating and safe care environment. Children need to feel valued and to be protected from discrimination.
Contents
An introduction explains why anti-discriminatory practice is important. Section one then asks why anti-discriminatory practice should be included, giving a list of underlying beliefs and values: a sense of trust in others and of justice; belief in co-operation and shared learning, that all children can be competent; that they can all be proud of their culture and heritage, that they can all be curious about and learn to accept human similarities and differences; and senses of each child's individuality and that a group of children is a small society where there is fairness, opportunity, caring and satisfaction for all members. Section 2 is a self-assessment questionnaire on creating an anti-bias environment. Section 3 gives reasons for an equal opportunities policy, a definition of a policy, definition of procedure/guidelines, how to develop a policy, implementing, and reviewing and evaluating, the policy, and a model equal opportunities policy. Section 4 is a step-by-step guide to the policy development process. Section 5 discusses diversity strategies for early childhood: curriculum preparation and deliverance, childcare staff and professional development, home-childcare service relations and interactions, celebrations, customs and food, materials and toys that reflect diversity, intercultural books, play for children with disabilities, disability awareness toys, and respect for differences. Section 6 covers children who speak English as an additional language, with a do and don't checklist and notes on support for children's developing use of English. Section 7 is about ice-breakers and awareness raising, describing activities to help raise awareness and initiate discussion on issues such as equality, social exclusion, how racism and discrimination operate, accurate information, involving parents, supporting children's positive identity development and play. Appendices list resources, useful organisations, and websites.
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ISBN 1 898662 94 0
Subject terms:
social care provision, anti-discriminatory practice, child care, diversity, equal opportunities;
Gender, Work and Organization, 11(6), November 2004, pp.648-667.
Publisher:
Blackwell
This article examines trade union activity in representing claimants at Equality Officer investigations under the Republic of Ireland's Employment Equality Act, 1977. This is set in the context of traditional trade union support for gender segregation in employment and the observation that trade union decision-making bodies still tend to be heavily male dominated. Use of the Act by trade unions is shown to have been mainly reactive rather than strategic. Evidence is presented that, while some individual union officials actively supported claims, this was not necessarily typical. It is argued that this represented a lost opportunity by trade unions to push the equality agenda forward and is consistent with continuation of the patriarchal trade union tradition. The article concludes by arguing that significant change to this approach is unlikely, given current gendered patterns of trade union governance.
This article examines trade union activity in representing claimants at Equality Officer investigations under the Republic of Ireland's Employment Equality Act, 1977. This is set in the context of traditional trade union support for gender segregation in employment and the observation that trade union decision-making bodies still tend to be heavily male dominated. Use of the Act by trade unions is shown to have been mainly reactive rather than strategic. Evidence is presented that, while some individual union officials actively supported claims, this was not necessarily typical. It is argued that this represented a lost opportunity by trade unions to push the equality agenda forward and is consistent with continuation of the patriarchal trade union tradition. The article concludes by arguing that significant change to this approach is unlikely, given current gendered patterns of trade union governance.
Focusing on Ireland, this is one of a series of reports reviewing national implementation of the European Employment Strategy from a disability equality perspective. It provides an update as at November 2009 to a first report published in 2008. Evidence is summarised, along with a comment on the current economic crisis. It is then reviewed in a standardised format under the following headings: academic publications and research reports; employment statistics and trends; laws and policies, type and quality of jobs; specific examples of good practice; and conclusions and recommendations. No new statistics have been published on the employment of disabled people. The Disability Act 2005 requires 3% of the work force of public bodies to be people with disabilities. A progress report has been published. There have been no major policy changes; key documents are still current. The Economic and Social Research Institute has committed to building on its labour market research examining the equality and employment of persons with disabilities. Government expenditure cuts will reduce the number of people employed in the public services, this will have a negative impact on the employment of persons with disabilities. There has been no significant legislation in this area but there was an important legal case relating to the definition of disability in terms of a high body mass index.
Focusing on Ireland, this is one of a series of reports reviewing national implementation of the European Employment Strategy from a disability equality perspective. It provides an update as at November 2009 to a first report published in 2008. Evidence is summarised, along with a comment on the current economic crisis. It is then reviewed in a standardised format under the following headings: academic publications and research reports; employment statistics and trends; laws and policies, type and quality of jobs; specific examples of good practice; and conclusions and recommendations. No new statistics have been published on the employment of disabled people. The Disability Act 2005 requires 3% of the work force of public bodies to be people with disabilities. A progress report has been published. There have been no major policy changes; key documents are still current. The Economic and Social Research Institute has committed to building on its labour market research examining the equality and employment of persons with disabilities. Government expenditure cuts will reduce the number of people employed in the public services, this will have a negative impact on the employment of persons with disabilities. There has been no significant legislation in this area but there was an important legal case relating to the definition of disability in terms of a high body mass index.
Subject terms:
labour market, law, disabilities, employment, equal opportunities, government policy;
Since the financial meltdown in 2008, there has been much analysis from a wide range of sources about what went wrong. They have attempted to explain why it happened, and what can be done about it. The author suggests that there has not been enough recognition of the need to place tackling inequality at the heart of a new vision. It is argued that social work academics and practitioners should join with other constituencies to ensure that the effects of inequality are challenged, and a fairer Ireland emerges from the current crisis. The article highlights why inequality matters, and how it affects Ireland today. The author concludes that social workers ‘on the ground’ are only too familiar with the damage inequality does, and that social work academics can play a very important role in supplementing social observations with a rigorous international evidence base to provide an alternative to the failed economic and social policies of recent years.
Since the financial meltdown in 2008, there has been much analysis from a wide range of sources about what went wrong. They have attempted to explain why it happened, and what can be done about it. The author suggests that there has not been enough recognition of the need to place tackling inequality at the heart of a new vision. It is argued that social work academics and practitioners should join with other constituencies to ensure that the effects of inequality are challenged, and a fairer Ireland emerges from the current crisis. The article highlights why inequality matters, and how it affects Ireland today. The author concludes that social workers ‘on the ground’ are only too familiar with the damage inequality does, and that social work academics can play a very important role in supplementing social observations with a rigorous international evidence base to provide an alternative to the failed economic and social policies of recent years.
Subject terms:
poverty, social policy, social work, discrimination, economics, equal opportunities;
Social Work Education (The International Journal), 28(6), September 2009, pp.583-597.
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Place of publication:
Philadelphia, USA
This article discusses a trial electronic exchange project developed between social work education departments in the Republic of Ireland and the USA. It outlines the contemporary significance and challenges of integrating global content into national social work curricula, which are often strongly tied to statutory or accreditation requirements. The mechanics of the exchange are explained and critiqued in detail. An illustrative example of how the transnational students discussed two questions is analyzed. The article finds that an international electronic exchange has great potential to make global social work real to students by allowing them to cross borders through cyberspace, however it requires careful planning and attention to cultural and educational system differences.
This article discusses a trial electronic exchange project developed between social work education departments in the Republic of Ireland and the USA. It outlines the contemporary significance and challenges of integrating global content into national social work curricula, which are often strongly tied to statutory or accreditation requirements. The mechanics of the exchange are explained and critiqued in detail. An illustrative example of how the transnational students discussed two questions is analyzed. The article finds that an international electronic exchange has great potential to make global social work real to students by allowing them to cross borders through cyberspace, however it requires careful planning and attention to cultural and educational system differences.
Subject terms:
information technology, social work education, curriculum development, diversity, equal opportunities, globalisation;
Policy and Politics, 34(4), October 2006, pp.597-614.
Publisher:
Policy Press
This article focuses on the experience of developing gender equality indicators in the UK and Republic of Ireland and on the challenges confronting policy makers in mainstreaming gender equality into public policies. It identifies the internationalisation of gender equality as a critical pressure on governments to address gender mainstreaming, and summarises the literature on gender equality indicators as a policy response to this demand. It reflects on experiences in the UK and Ireland in developing gender equality indicators and concludes with a discussion of methodological and political challenges confronting policy makers in incorporating gender mainstreaming into general policy concerns
This article focuses on the experience of developing gender equality indicators in the UK and Republic of Ireland and on the challenges confronting policy makers in mainstreaming gender equality into public policies. It identifies the internationalisation of gender equality as a critical pressure on governments to address gender mainstreaming, and summarises the literature on gender equality indicators as a policy response to this demand. It reflects on experiences in the UK and Ireland in developing gender equality indicators and concludes with a discussion of methodological and political challenges confronting policy makers in incorporating gender mainstreaming into general policy concerns
Subject terms:
policy, politics, sex discrimination, equal opportunities, gender, gender equality;
Study, using feminist theory, examining EC equality law in the field of statutory social security and considering the effectiveness of the legislation in bringing women close to the goal of financial independence from men. Goes on to assess the implementation of EC equality law in this area in four countries: the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands and Belgium. Criteria for assessing future policy options, legislation and court decisions are offered. Demonstrates that the concept of equality as currently understood in EC law is fundamentally limited in being able to change the unequal outcomes suffered by women in terms of their lack of financial independence from men.
Study, using feminist theory, examining EC equality law in the field of statutory social security and considering the effectiveness of the legislation in bringing women close to the goal of financial independence from men. Goes on to assess the implementation of EC equality law in this area in four countries: the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands and Belgium. Criteria for assessing future policy options, legislation and court decisions are offered. Demonstrates that the concept of equality as currently understood in EC law is fundamentally limited in being able to change the unequal outcomes suffered by women in terms of their lack of financial independence from men.
The Academic Network of European Disability experts (ANED) was established by the European commission in 2008 to provide scientific support and advice for its disability policy unit. This country report was prepared as input for the thematic report on the implementation of European Union equality of educational and training opportunities in European countries with reference to equality for young disabled people. Its purpose is to review national implementation on equality of educational and training opportunities for young people. It looks at the legal and policy context in Ireland, including how the current state-of-the-art compares with the expectations of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, evidence of outcomes and progress towards equal opportunities, types of support for students and trainees (including financial support and personal assistance, equipment and adaptations), and evidence of good practice. It also sets out conclusions.
The Academic Network of European Disability experts (ANED) was established by the European commission in 2008 to provide scientific support and advice for its disability policy unit. This country report was prepared as input for the thematic report on the implementation of European Union equality of educational and training opportunities in European countries with reference to equality for young disabled people. Its purpose is to review national implementation on equality of educational and training opportunities for young people. It looks at the legal and policy context in Ireland, including how the current state-of-the-art compares with the expectations of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, evidence of outcomes and progress towards equal opportunities, types of support for students and trainees (including financial support and personal assistance, equipment and adaptations), and evidence of good practice. It also sets out conclusions.
Subject terms:
rights, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, United Nations, training, young people, children, disabilities, education, equal opportunities, European Union;