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Ready, willing and able to work
- Author:
- THOMPSON Audrey
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.1.98, 1998, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on how disabled people want any review of their benefits to include the abolition of the 'all work test'.
Look again
- Author:
- THOMPSON Audrey
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.6.98, 1998, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Discusses how a report from a leading charity revealed how society's attitudes to disabled people mean that they are excluded from experiences that non-disabled people take for granted.
The body politic
- Author:
- THOMPSON Audrey
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.11.00, 2000, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Scientific advances in genetics have outstripped society's ability to keep up with the ethical implications of the technology. As designer babies become a real possibility this report examines the debate from the point of view of disabled people.
Voice of experience
- Author:
- THOMPSON Audrey
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.7.00, 2000, p.16.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author talks to Francine Bates, Contact a Family's new chief executive, about why supporting families is vital.
Gone with the wind
- Author:
- THOMPSON Audrey
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 12.6.97, 1997, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how disabled service users are finding themselves sidelined by society, partly because of the bad press given to people dependent on benefits under the previous government. Investigates how they can also be marginalised by the services supposedly designed to help them.
Permission to live...
- Author:
- THOMPSON Audrey
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.7.95, 1995, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Rebecca Halliday, a severely deaf nursery nurse has won a court battle so that she is entitled to apply for a disability living allowance to enable her to enjoy a normal social life. Examines the ruling and its implications.
Everyone's a winner
- Author:
- THOMPSON Audrey
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.2.00, 2000, p.26.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on a project in Torbay, where people are visited in their own homes to ensure they claim benefits.
The fight-for-rights
- Author:
- THOMPSON Audrey
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.7.96, 1996, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author writes that disabled people, elderly people with learning difficulties are all speaking out loudly to be heard.
Mystery callers
- Author:
- THOMPSON Audrey
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 6.7.00, 2000, p.22.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Lancashire social services have found a novel way of gauging users satisfaction. Reports on how disabled people are asked to go "undercover" to test how good their services really are.