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Civil rights, society's wrongs: disabled people fight discrimination
- Authors:
- CAMPBELL Jane, DAY Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, May 1994, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
The latest anti-discrimination bill for people with disabilities, the Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) Bill is due to emerge from the crucial committee stage of its passage through Parliament next month. The proposals and their background are outlined and the author, a service user explains how the issues affect her.
Valuing diversity: the disability agenda: we've only just begun
- Author:
- CAMPBELL Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 17(4), June 2002, pp.471-478.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
If society is to value all its disabled people, it needs to find ways of making this collective minority powerful enough to influence the future. Shaping the future is something the Disabled People's Movement has been preoccupied with for decades. The key is unlock some of the fundamental principles of the social model of disability. This model has the potential to transform disabled people's lives. It has become the disability movement's tool for social inclusion.