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Benefit's quiet demise hurts clients
- Author:
- VAUX Gary
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.5.01, 2001, p.35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at the impact of the low-key abolition of severe disablement allowance on claimants, some of whom will have found that an important source of support has now been taken away from them.
Scottish Executive response to the report of the Disability Rights Task Force
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 18p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Working with disabled people in consultation and research
- Authors:
- BARNES Di, KENDALL Marilyn
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 19(1), 2001, pp.17-24.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
When a consultation exercise is designed with disabled people, the result will be influenced by all the participants' experience of consultation and their knowledge and understanding of research. The exercise will also be a product of particular place and time. These influences are explored in a case study carried out by the authors in partnerships with disabled people; they adopted a pluralistic and flexible approach to consultation, which gave information as well as sought it, and included a commitment to developing community skills with an eye on succession.
Disability in Scotland: a baseline study
- Authors:
- RIDDELL Sheila, BANKS Pauline
- Publisher:
- Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 144p.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
Integrating disability into transport policy: establishment of a mobility and access committee for Scotland
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive. Development Department
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 13p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Nowhere to go
- Author:
- SALE Anabel Unity
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 19.7.01, 2001, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on how there is a need for more refuge services for disabled women fleeing domestic violence.
Making headway
- Authors:
- GEORGE Mike, NEEDHAM Carol
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.6.01, May 2001, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
There are few services provided for people with brain injuries with the result that too much pressure is placed on their carers. Talks to a social worker about the difficulties she had in obtaining support for her client and his carer.
How does the fund work
- Author:
- GLASBY Jon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 29.3.01, 2001, p.28.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The Independent Living Fund was intended to help disabled people live at home and has been so popular it has been extended. Explains exactly how it operates.
Penalised for having a job
- Author:
- UNITY Anabel
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 29.3.01, 2001, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Many disabled people want to earn a living and be as independent as possible. Asks why the government changed the criteria for Independent Living Fund grants and marked paid work less attractive.
Making it work: inspection of welfare to work for disabled people
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 2p.
- Place of publication:
- London