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Polls apart: a brief guide to accessible democracy
- Authors:
- MORRIS Gwilym, SCOTT Ruth
- Publisher:
- SCOPE
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report calls for disabled people to have equal access to the voting process and demands that disabled people are able to vote independently and in secret. Disabled people have an absolute democratic right and being unable to vote as equals makes them second-class citizens. There are 10 million disabled adults in the UK, yet at the last General Election, in 2001, 69 per cent of polling stations failed a basic access test and were inaccessible to some disabled people.
Disability, citizenship and community care: a case for welfare rights?
- Author:
- RUMMERY Kirstein
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 201p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
This book develops the theory of social citizenship in a way that is relevant to current analyses of the future of the welfare state. It examines the role community care policy and practice plays in shaping disabled people's citizenship in the UK, providing compelling evidence of the ways in which the welfare state can either support, or act as a barrier to disabled people's social participation. The author lays out a challenge to the current relationship between disabled people and the welfare state.
Inclusive citizenship: social equality for disabled people
- Authors:
- HEAVEN Christine, CHRISTIE Ian
- Publisher:
- Leonard Cheshire Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 27p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report examines disabled people's experience of social exclusion. The report argues that the causes of disabled people's poverty and social exclusion are not the same as the general population's. Disabled people also face higher risks of poverty and social exclusion than the general population.
Disability review 2009
- Authors:
- GREENHALGH Caroline, GORE Eleanor, (comps.)
- Publisher:
- Leonard Cheshire
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 64p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This is the third of a series of annual UK wide surveys produced by Leonard Cheshire Disability. The principal objective of the Review is to assess the experiences of disabled people across a number of key areas of life including: education; employment; health and social care; housing; transport and citizenship. It was compiled using responses to a detailed questionnaire that was completed by 1253 people drawn from across the UK. Respondents experienced a range of different impairments, were aged over 18 and included a mix of men and women, single and married, parents and non-parents. They were drawn from nine ethnic groups and from all regions of the UK.