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Korean disability employment policy: what is it offering people with learning disabilities?
- Authors:
- KIM Jin Woo, DAVIS Ann
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Society, 5(3), July 2006, pp.409-419.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
From the 1960s onwards opportunities for employment for disabled people have been promoted by the South Korean government and recent research has focused on the achievements of policies in this area. However people with learning disabilities have largely been ignored in this research. The paper draws on a study which used research methods designed explicitly to enable people with learning disabilities to participate and their voices to be heard. The findings highlight the failure of current policies to provide suitable employment opportunities for people with learning disabilities and the paper concludes with some recommendations.
Empowerment, self-advocacy and resilience
- Author:
- GOODLEY Dan
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 9(4), December 2005, pp.333-343.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Place of publication:
- London
This article critiques the relationship between the aims of ‘learning disability’ policy and the realities of the self-advocacy movement. A previous study found that self-advocacy can be defined as the public recognition of the resilience of people with learning difficulties. In the current climate of Valuing People, partnership boards and ‘user empowerment’, understanding resilience is crucial to the support of authentic forms of self-advocacy. This article aims to address such a challenge. First, understandings of resilience in relation to self-empowerment and self-advocacy are briefly considered. Second, the current policy climate and service provision rhetoric are critically explored. Third, it is argued that we need to recognize how self-advocacy groups celebrate resilience through a variety of social and identity-shifting actions. How current policy responds to these aspects of resilience is questioned. It is concluded that the lived reality of self-advocacy needs to be foregrounded in any attempt to understand empowerment.
Empowerment, policy levels and service forums
- Author:
- BRANDOM Toby
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 9(4), December 2005, pp.321-331.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Place of publication:
- London
This article examines empowerment through policy at three levels: governmental, service and ‘street’. It focuses in particular on ‘street level’ policy, drawing on qualitative interviews and an analysis of documentation within a day centre for adults with learning difficulties. The recorded behaviour of the workers and the structure of the day centre affected service users’ experience of power. This is discussed through the theoretical construction of the organization’s ‘service forum’ that contains its ‘posture’, a set of formal values and beliefs owned by the organization, and the ‘culture’, which is the unofficial day-to-day presentation of the service. Finally the use of such an approach is considered with regards to the future analysis of services for people with learning difficulties.
Self-advocacy:vested interests and misunderstandings
- Author:
- ASPINS Simone
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 30(1), March 2002, pp.3-7.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Examines the vested interests of the different stakeholders and illustrates through examples where some misunderstandings about self-advocacy have arisen.
Nothing about me, without me: the report of a practice based study of approaches to effective user involvement in individual care in one agency
- Authors:
- DICK Sally, CUNNINGHAM Gail
- Publisher:
- Consultation and Involvement Trust Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 38p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Report of a study investigating approaches to user involvement and participation in decisions about individual care in an organisation working with people with learning difficulties, including people with very high support needs. The study aims to illustrate routes to more effective involvement and particularly to explore circumstances which could be seen to prevent involvement or to discourage service providers from actively seeking out ways of effectively and genuinely involving users.
A chance to speak
- Author:
- SIMONS Ken
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 28.1.93, 1993, pp.25-26.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Self advocacy groups for people with learning disabilities empower service users but are accepted only with reluctance by some professionals. Gives details of the British Advocacy Project Study.
Supported to be sexual? Developing sexual rights for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- KEYWOOD Kirsty
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 8(3), July 2003, pp.30-36.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This discussion paper explores criminal law reform proposals on the law relating to sexual offences and illustrates the current tension between sexual empowerment and protection of people with learning disabilities from sexual violence. It suggests that law's response to the sexuality of people with learning disabilities, evidenced by the Sexual Offences Bill now before Parliament, will be inadequate as long as it is characterised as choosing between protection and empowerment. Argues that an alternative conception of sexual rights can provide a fuller and more persuasive account of the sexuality of men and women with learning disabilities.
Towards the creative management of risk: perceptions practices and policies
- Authors:
- ALASZEWSKI Andy, ALASZEWSKI Helen
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 30(2), June 2002, pp.56-62.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This present article examines the importance of risk when supporting individuals with learning disabilities. Risk is an important issue in the provision of support. Service users saw risk primarily in terms of hazards. Carers were concerned about hazards and harm, but recognised the need for risk-taking. Professionals emphasized the importance of reasonable risk-taking. Agencies also recognised the importance of risk management, and most had or were developing risk policies. However, most of these policies are based on a restricted approach to risk which emphasizes hazard assessment, and health and safety issues.
Where is the support for self-determination?
- Author:
- ASPIS Simone
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 14(4), April 2001, pp.ii-iii.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Argues that support for self-determination, rather than providing services decided by others, would be the best way of reducing the poverty and exclusion of people with learning difficulties. Argues that the White Paper does not address this issue.
Direct payments offer older people hope of greater empowerment
- Author:
- HEPTINSTALL Derek
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 3(1), January 1999, pp.23-25.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Following a nine-month review, the Government has announced that direct payments will be extended to people aged 65 and over. In this guide to direct payments, the author explains the policy background, the origins of the idea, how they work and the problems of the present legislation. It calls for the right to direct payments to be made mandatory on all local authorities.