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Your caring sharing friends and helpers
- Author:
- MACHARDY L.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.1.88, 1988, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Describes a Community Programme scheme on the Isle of Wight, run jointly by health, SSD, voluntary organisations and trades unions, to provide jobs for unemployed people who offer help to those who are elderly and housebound.
Past it at 40?: a grassroots view of ageism and discrimination in employment
- Author:
- GASTER Lucy
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 61p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This report provides new evidence that ageism and discrimination are having devastating effects on the lives of people as young as forty, with a cost to the economy of up to £31 billion per year. It explores, in detail, the experiences of people over forty trying to enter the labour market, including: people who have been made redundant; the longterm unemployed; women returners; people with disabilities; and people still in a job but needing new skills to keep going. Employers’ attitudes, policies and practices are examined, revealing a worrying lack of awareness of national and European legislation in relation to the employment of older people.
Geographic patterns of change of benefit claimants
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Using data from the Department for Work and Pensions, this study explores changing patterns of claim rates of Income Support (IS) and income-based Job Seeker's Allowance (JSA-IB) in England between 1995 and 2000. It carries forward earlier work using administrative data and demonstrates the power of such data in measuring changing fortunes over time for different area units and claimant groups throughout England. Following the recession in the early 1990s the British economy enjoyed a period of sustained economic growth. The impact of this recovery has, however, not been shared equally by different groups, whether these are defined geographically by area, or by claimant group category. The study looked at changes in claim rates by claimant characteristics (lone parents, unemployed, 'disabled and others', those aged 60 and over, families with children, and claimants who are in their fifties) and by location (Government Offices for the Regions (GOs), local authority districts and wards).
"Nar alle revalideringsmuligheder ma anses for udtomte"
- Author:
- ANDERSEN Tine
- Journal article citation:
- Nordisk Sosialt Arbeid, 17(4), 1997, pp.231-235.
- Publisher:
- Universitetsforlaget AS
Looks at how the Danish rehabilitation institutions have been experiencing problems. Suggests a radical solution to these problems.
Involving volunteers from underrepresented groups: findings
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Survey evidence suggests that young people, older people, unemployed people, disabled people and people from black and other minority ethnic communities are underrepresented as volunteers in mainstream organisations. Researched carried out by the National Centre for Volunteering found that some organisations have addressed the barriers that face potential volunteers from these groups and secured their involvement through the adoption of practical measures and a real commitment to equality of opportunity.
The forgotten majority: promoting public transport for people with special needs
- Author:
- ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN AUTHORITIES
- Publisher:
- Association of Metropolitan Authorities
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 40p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Highlights problems faced by the disabled, mentally ill, elderly, women, ethnic groups, unemployed and children in achieving maximum access to the public transport system.
Social policy review 12
- Editors:
- DEAN Hartley, SKYES Robert, WOODS Roberta
- Publisher:
- Social Policy Association
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 372p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Collection of essays on social policy with sections on: rethinking policy in the welfare-to-work state; substantive policy developments in the UK; and social exclusion in a global context.
Social policy and the labour market
- Editors:
- DE JONG Philip R., MARMOR Theodore R.
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 733p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Joins micro-economic analysis of social insurance and welfare systems with broader political descriptions of social policy. Gives a sense of the fundamental problem of finding a social welfare system that fits specific economic and cultural conditions. Includes papers on: the Nordic welfare model and the European Union; convergence and divergence in the evolution of the welfare state; private provision of social security; the case for equivalent taxation of social security benefits in the European Union; an international analysis of retirement and economic development; disability and rehabilitation; unemployment insurance; social assistance in comparative perspective; lone mothers, policy and employment in twenty countries; Swedish single parents and social security; social security in Poland in a period of transition; social security reform in the Czech Republic; social security for disabled people in South Africa; China's social security in the context of the national distribution system; and integratability of social welfare systems for a unified Korea.
Risk, insurance and welfare: the changing balance between public and private protection
- Author:
- ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH INSURERS
- Publisher:
- Association of British Insurers
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 113p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report aiming to raise awareness of the importance of insurance in the policy debate about future arrangements for protection against various life risks. Includes chapters on: the insurance of medical risks; long term care of older people; responding to the risk of unemployment; providing fair pensions efficiently; legal expenses - state legal aid and market for legal expenses insurance; corporate liability; sickness and disability insurance in the public and private sectors; and accidental damage and personal injury.
Quality of life for persons with disabilities: international perspectives and issues
- Editor:
- GOODE David
- Publisher:
- Brookline Books
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 218p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge, MA
Comparative study of the quality of life of people with learning difficulties. Includes papers on: quality of life in the Danish context; a six year study of a quality of life model; Australian legislation, service delivery and quality of life; overview of theory and practice in Germany; quality of life and unemployment among people with disabilities in Hungary; the National Quality of Life for Persons with Disabilities Project in the USA; the California quality of life project; towards an understanding of quality of life in people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities; quality of life and ageing; quality of life at school; training staff in quality of life issues; and the concept of quality of life and its current applications in the field of developmental disabilities.