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Research into practice
- Author:
- HANNAH Pete
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 26.2.04, 2004, p.46.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on research which found that 'wellness services' can play an important role in helping disabled people reduce their independence on the medical system. The research highlighted the importance of access to wider health services such as opticians, chiropodists and advice on sexual health.
Disability rights in practice: the relationship between human rights and social rights in contemporary social care
- Author:
- ELLIS Kathryn
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 20(7), December 2005, pp.691-704.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Using the contemporary arena of social care as an example, this article challenges the either/or dichotomy set up by some disability writers and activists between the favoured civil and human rights on the one hand and discredited social rights on the other. This article draws on the example of social care in England to argue that this is an approach that not only misreads the true nature of civil and human rights, but also limits the possibilities for using the 1998 Human Rights Act to place pressure on both local authorities and professional assessors for the resources necessary to transform civil and human rights into practical realities. In particular, the potential for expanding disabled people’s social rights to both direct services and direct payments by enforcing the positive obligations on public authorities conferred by human rights legislation and challenging rationing regimes.
Improving the life chances of disabled people: final report
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Cabinet Office. Prime Minister's Strategy Unit
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Cabinet Office. Prime Minister's Strategy Unit
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 244p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report sets out an ambitious programme of action that will bring disabled people fully within the scope of the “opportunity society”. By supporting disabled people to help themselves, a step change can be achieved in the participation and inclusion of disabled people. The report proposes that the Government should set an ambitious vision for improving the life chances of disabled people. Future strategy for disabled people should seek to realise this vision through practical measures in four key areas. (1) Helping disabled people to achieve independent living by moving progressively to individual budgets for disabled people, drawing together the services to which they are entitled and giving them greater choice over the mix of support they receive in the form of cash and/or direct provision of services. (2) Improving support for families with young disabled children by ensuring families of disabled children benefit from childcare and early education provided to all children; meeting the extra needs of families with disabled children; and ensuring services are centred on disabled children and their families, not on processes and funding streams. (3) Facilitating a smooth transition into adulthood by putting in place improved mechanisms for effective planning for the transition to adulthood and the support that goes with this; removing “cliff edges” in service provision; and giving disabled young people access to a more transparent and more appropriate menu of opportunities and choices. (4) Improving support and incentives for getting and staying in employment by ensuring that support is available well before a benefit claim is made; reforming the gateway onto entitlements; providing effective work-focused training for disabled people; and improving Access to Work.
Assistive technology: independence and well-being
- Author:
- AUDIT COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Audit Commission
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 50p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This paper looks in more depth at the role of assistive technology (AT) in supporting independence. It examines the place of AT in the current policy context and describes the current evidence to demonstrate how AT can support independence. It analyses the current obstacles to progress and explains how change can be introduced. New assistive technology can play a vital role in supporting the ways in which millions of older or disabled people can maintain or regain their independence. It also has the potential to modernise the way in which many aspects of health and social care are currently delivered to the benefit of users, carers, service providers and the taxpayer.
Slow climb for equipment
- Authors:
- SALT Ian, MAPSTONE Nick
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.07.03, 2003, pp.38-40.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A major effort is underway to improve the provision of equipment for older people and disabled people. In response to the Audit Commission report 'Fully Equipped' the government provided new money for community equipment services, set new service targets, and also set up the national Integration of Community Equipment Service (ICES) team to support the efforts of local services. Describes progress so far.
Direct payments for young disabled people
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The Carers and Disabled Children Act 2000 extended access to direct payments to 16- and 17-year-old disabled young people. A project carried out at the Norah Fry Research Centre, sought to collate the work going on in this area; to highlight the main issues facing young disabled people who would like to access direct payments; and to produce a resource with and for young disabled people to promote take-up. The extension of direct payments to 16- and 17-year-olds aims to provide opportunities for young disabled people to increase their independence and choice. Some young disabled people saw direct payments as a potentially significant means to achieving greater autonomy and control but they were also concerned about the obstacles they would confront in trying to access them.
Equipped for equality
- Author:
- MARKS Olivia
- Publisher:
- SCOPE
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 68p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Aids and equipment can be the tools which ensure an independent lifestyle for disabled people. They can make the difference between active participation in and exclusion from society. This book argues that suitable equipment is a key to disabled people achieving equality.
Whose voices? Representing the claims of older disabled people under New Labour
- Author:
- PRIESTLEY Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 30(3), July 2002, pp.361-372.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This article highlights some significant similarities and differences in the social claims made by groups representing older people and disabled people in policy debates under New Labour. Using recent policy examples, the analysis focuses on the claims being made by older and disabled people and the discourses, representations and strategies used to make them. The article suggests that there are considerable areas of common ground on which political alliances and common voice could be built, but there is also evidence of a tactical or discursive distancing between the two groups. These difficulties are interpreted with reference to the centrality of independence and paid employment within policy debates under New Labour.
Equipped for equality: campaigns toolkit for overcoming barriers
- Author:
- Campaigns Department (Scope)
- Publisher:
- SCOPE
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Aids and equipment can be the tools which ensure an independent lifestyle for disabled people. They can make the difference between active participation in and exclusion from society. This booklet argues that suitable equipment is a key to disabled people achieving equality.
Why are some people's needs unmet?
- Author:
- KEMP Lynn
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 17(2), March 2002, pp.205-218.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Australia has legislation that states that 'people with disabilities have the same rights as other members of society to services', yet nearly one-third of all people with spinal injuries have their need for community services unmet. If all people have the same rights, why are some people's needs unmet? How equitable is the distribution of services? This study challenges service providers' beliefs that decisions about the provision and distribution of services are made objectively and equitably. To obtain needed services, people had to demonstrate their worthiness by conforming to providers' stereotype-based expectations of the disabled, based in entrenched philosophies. Service structures reinforce these disabling ideologies Service provision must thus undergo fundamental philosophical and structural change in order to meet community service needs.