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Perspectives: own worst enemy?
- Author:
- WHITE Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.4.02, 2002, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author expresses his concern that disabled people are their own best advocates, and would prefer someone who knows the opposition and how to represent disabled people against their prejudices.
Success in supported employment for people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Supported employment is a service that enables people with learning difficulties to find and hold down real jobs in unsegregated workplaces. An in-depth study of sixteen supported employees in South Wales looked at the strategies of supported employees, employers and job coaches for making supported employment successful. Self-advocates acted as consultants on the project and helped the researchers define what 'success' in supported employment might mean.
The Scottish Translation, Interpreting and Communication Forum: good practice guidelines 2002
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive. Scottish Translation Interpreting and communication Forum
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 36p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The national protection and advocacy system:what social workers need to know
- Authors:
- MEINART Roland, DE LOYOLA Shawn
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 1(1), 2002, pp.15-26.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Describes the American national system of protection and advocacy services which provides advocacy and legal representation to protect the civil rights of all persons with disabilities, with a particular emphasis on persons with developmental disabilities and persons with mental illness. The article describes this system of resources, its method of operation, and shows its compatibility with the purpose and mission of social work.
Un-supported living?
- Author:
- SCHWEHR Belinda
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 22, October 2002, pp.32-34.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
A financial, legal and regulatory concern is developing nationwide, related to supported living schemes. The concern is that some housing benefit claims by learning disabled occupiers of such schemes will be refused based on the views of the National Care Standards Commission that the tenancies are invalid.
Bringing difference into deliberation? Disabled people survivors and local governance
- Author:
- BARNES Marian
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 30(3), July 2002, pp.319-331.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This article discusses the engagement of disabled people and mental health service users/survivors in the process of participatory democracy. The article considers how notions of "legitimate participants" are constructed within official discourse, and how those can be challenged by autonomous groups of disabled people. It also explores assumptions about appropriate forms of deliberation within participation forums and how an appeal to rational debate can exclude the emotional content of the experience of living with mental health problems from deliberation about mental health policy.
Policy politics and the silencing of 'voice'
- Author:
- SCOTT-HILL Mairian
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 30(3), July 2002, pp.397-409.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This article argues that socio-political understandings of disability have not impacted on legal discourse, this article asks two questions. The author questions why a substantive solution, framed by rights discourse, to the problems of disabled people 's oppression and how perceptions of struggle, representation and participation in disability politics influence the way in which it engages with matters of policy. The article suggests that both questions ultimately concern discourse in situations where struggle and contest are highlighted. It argues that, in the search for solutions to social oppression, disabled people would gain much from developing a deeper understanding of "relational politics" that moves beyond perceptions of disability as power and dominance.
Mental health services users and disability: implications for future strategies
- Authors:
- BERESFORD Peter, HARRISON Chris, WILSON Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 30(3), July 2002, pp.387-396.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This article investigates what appears to be an ambiguity in the approach of disability policy and disability politics to mental health service users. Mental health policy, which has always had powers to restrict their rights, is now increasingly associating mental health service users/survivors with "dangerousness" and focusing on them as a threat to "public safety". Mental health service users"/survivors" organisations, which have so far tended to focus their activities on mental health policy and partnership approaches to making change,are now beginning to look to disability policy and politics to develop their thinking and activities for the future, while retaining their own distinct and independent identity. This has important implications for disability studies, policy and politics.
The politics of self-advocacy and people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- ARMSTRONG Derrick
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 30(3), July 2002, pp.333-345.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This article argues that in considering "self-advocacy" as a policy option through which the citizenship of people with learning difficulties can be asserted, it is necessary to start from an understanding of how "learning difficulties" are themselves socially constructed as a label for managing and controlling a "troublesome" minority. For this reason, significant difficulties are encountered by people with learning difficulties in their attempts to advance their civil rights through self-advocacy. This is particularly the case where self-advocacy is represented as part of a policy agenda for "empowerment" within service settings.
Participation in practice: children and young people as partners in change
- Author:
- WILLOW Carolyne
- Publisher:
- Children's Society
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 175p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Considers the policy context for consultation and participation, and explores guiding principles and recommendations for achieving positive change with children and young people. Topics covered: promoting school inclusion; advocacy in the child protection system; consulting and including young carers in policy and practice development; learning from the views of young disabled people; listening and responding to very young children; setting up a children and young person's bureau.