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Now know your rights
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 12.6.97, 1997, p.25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how recent legal judgements could lead us to believe disabled people's rights have been totally undermined and argues that making sure disabled people know their rights is the key to the problem.
Gone missing? Disabled children living away from their families
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 12(2), April 1997, pp.241-258.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Many disabled children spend most of their childhood in 'care', but not formally 'in care'. Research concerning disabled children has been dominated by a medical model of disability and by a failure to include the subjective reality of children themselves. There is also inadequate statistical information available concerning children who spend most of their time away from a family setting. This article looks at what is known about such experiences, and identifies some issues for future research.
Care or empowerment? a disability rights perspective
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 31(1), March 1997, pp.54-60.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article challenges the notion of "care", arguing that people who need support in their daily lives have been constructed as "dependent people". Instead, the author argues, if we want to empower people we must learn from the Independent Living Movement, from the people who struggled against segregation and insisted that access to personal assistance over which they have control is a civil rights issues. Argues that the new direct payments legislation is an important stage in the achievements of a civil rights movement in any work which they develop on issues which are not of mere academic interest but which concern people's rights to choice and control in their lives.