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The work of Jack Tizard - II: 1965 to 1979
- Author:
- WILLIAMS Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 10(1), February 2005, pp.18-21.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Lists Tizard's publications 1965-79 with commentary on the development of his interests through that time and his major contribution to research and social policy.
Deinstitutionalisation
- Authors:
- EMERSON Eric, HATTON Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 10(1), February 2005, pp.36-40.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Over the last 50 years deinstitutionalisation has dominated social policy development for people with learning disabilities in most of the richest countries. This commemorative issue attempts to place what we have learned about the successes and failures of deinstitutionalisation in the light of 3 themes clearly evident in the work of Tizard and his colleagues: the unrealised potential of people with learning disabilities, the importance of measuring and analysing quality in residential services and the value of applied research.
The work of Jack Tizard - I: 1950 to 1964
- Author:
- WILLIAMS Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 10(1), February 2005, pp.7-11.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Lists Tizard's publications 1950-64 with commentary on the development of his interests through that time and his major contribution to research and social policy.
The social model of disability: Europe and the majority world
- Editors:
- BARNES Colin, MERCER Geof, eds.
- Publisher:
- Disability Press
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 218p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
Over the last three decades disability activists and writers have advocated the social model of disability as a comprehensive critique of orthodox academic and administrative approaches to the understanding and development of social policy for disabled people. This book contains thirteen chapters on the application of social model inspired thinking outside Britain. Contributors include academics, activists and practitioners. They raise several important issues and concerns central to theorising and applying social model insights to 'developed' and majority world countries. Examples include emerging debates within the European Union, including transport, law and citizenship, with case studies of France, Sweden and Disabled Peoples' International. Focus on the majority world covers human rights and development strategies, user led initiatives and community based rehabilitation with case studies of Bangladesh and Egypt.
Quality of life and human difference: genetic testing, health care, and disability
- Editors:
- WASSERMAN David, BICKENBACH Jerome, WACHBROIT Robert, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 273p.
- Place of publication:
- New York
The role of quality assessments in social policy, especially health policy, and ethical and social issues raised by prenatal testing for disability are discussed in this analysis. A theme of the literature has been the role played by controversial assumptions about the quality of life of people with disabilities. This book turns the perspectives of disability scholars to issues that have largely been the province of health methodology, policy and philosophy, while re-directing philosophical policy analysis to problems that have largely been the province of disability scholarship.
Changing Britain for good: putting disability at the heart of public policy
- Author:
- DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Disability Rights Commission
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 60p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This paper sets out priorities for achieving a society in which all disabled people can participate fully as equal citizens. The report shows that disabled people have more housing problems, unemployment and general poverty, on average, than non-disabled people.
Disability and social policy in Britain since 1750: a history of exclusion
- Author:
- BORSAY Anne
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 306p.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
This book explores experiences of physical and mental impairment in Britain since the Industrial Revolution. The book's starting point is the exclusion of disabled people from the full rights of citizenship because of their marginality to the labour market. Institutional living and community care are then examined with reference to the changing mixed economy of health and social care. Literary, oral and visual sources complement documentary evidence, and particular attention is paid to the personal testimonies of disabled people.
Supporting older families of people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- MORGAN Hazel, MAGILL Dalia
- Publisher:
- Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This is a briefing on the Foundation’s Older Family Carers Initiative. The three-year Initiative has come up with a clear set of policy messages to help health and social care service providers to meet the needs of older family carers and their relative with a learning disability. We have found that there is still a long way to go to ensure that older people’s services, carers’ services, learning disability services and the voluntary sector work together to implement fully the aspects of the Valuing People White Paper that relate to older families and to provide them with ongoing support. The briefing makes recommendations for policy makers, commissioners, Learning Disability and Older People’s Partnership Boards and the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities.