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Can it work?
- Author:
- STANLEY Kate
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.7.03, 2003, p.38.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The authors argue that the government's Jobcentre Plus initiative is inadequate to meet the change of enabling disabled people to enter the jobs market. The author draws on her work for the Institute for Public Policy Research and looks at some of the additional efforts that need to be made.
Opportunity blocks
- Author:
- BERESFORD Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.1.01, 2001, p.14.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author argues that society's attitude to work and benefits does much to deny disabled people access to quality job opportunities, education and enriching life experiences.
Excluding attitudes: disabled people's experience of social exclusion
- Authors:
- KNIGHT John, BRENT Martine
- Publisher:
- Leonard Cheshire Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 32p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains chapters on: society's view of disabled people; disabled people and the workplace; attitudes that bar the way to social life; the denial of disabled people's rights; and conclusions and recommendations.
Training to disable prejudice
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Voluntary Voice, 97, September 1995, pp.17-18.
- Publisher:
- London Voluntary Service Council
Reports on a training scheme, Disability Equality Training which is a way for non-disabled people to understand the social and political issues that affect disabled people.
Disability and disadvantage: the consquences of chronic illness
- Author:
- LOCKER David
- Publisher:
- Tavistock
- Publication year:
- 1983
- Pagination:
- 220p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Disability, health and access to training
- Author:
- FUMAGALLI Laura
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 58p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Providing adequate training for disabled people is a major objective of recent legislation against discrimination in the labour market for the UK. Using data from the 2004 British workplace employee relations survey, this detailed study analyses the determinants of training for disabled workers both at the individual and at the firm level – in terms of the likelihood of workers being trained by their employers and the length of training received. The findings conclude that disability can reduce the probability of receiving training, but has negligible effect on the duration of training if it is received. The authors propose that the findings pose a challenge for policy makers, who must make it possible for each employee to declare his health status, but on the other hand must set up preventions aimed at discriminating against disabled people.
Disablism: how to tackle the last prejudice
- Authors:
- MILLER Paul, PARKER Sophia, GILLINSON Sarah
- Publisher:
- DEMOS
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 81p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This pamphlet starts from the lived experiences of disabled people. Based on a series of interviews with disabled individuals and representatives of government departments and disability organisations, it argues that the current legislation-dominated approach to bringing about positive social change is only a start on the journey to eradicating the subtle but sometimes life-destroying, impact of disablism. For too long debates have started from the basis of what disabled people can’t do rather than what they can do, often much better than nondisabled people. Rather than trying to solve inequalities one by one, the book makes the case for a different approach to achieving change. It recommends a strategy that does not always look to the courts or the government to make a difference. In order to eradicate discrimination, it is necessary to understand how positive change emerges in society on multiple levels, at different speeds and involving different people. This pamphlet argues that trading zones – new models of collaborative participation between existing institutions, could accelerate the pace of change by bringing together diverse groups of people on an equal basis to challenge disablism, the prejudice with no name.
Disabled for life?: attitudes towards, and experiences of, disability in Britain
- Authors:
- GREWAL Ini, et al
- Publisher:
- Corporate Document Services; Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 264p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
The aims of the research were to provide a picture of work and daily activities of disabled people, compared with non-disabled people, and to examine general attitudes to disability. The study also sought to examine peoples experience of their disability, including discrimination and prejudice, across a range of different areas of life. The research was commissioned to inform the Governments policies to promote equality by helping disabled people overcome the barriers which may exclude them from learning, employment and other aspects of society.
Challenging fundamental assumptions about mental health service users and work
- Authors:
- RINALDI Miles, HILL Robert
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 5(2), May 2001, pp.5-10.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
New research challenges three commonly held assumptions; that mental health service users do not want to work, that work will make their condition worse, and that what they are really best suited to is sheltered work. Re-examines these assumptions in the light of interviews with service users and employers.
The role of self-advocacy in work for people with learning difficulties
- Authors:
- SKELTON Judd, MOORE Michele
- Journal article citation:
- Community Work and Family, 2(2), August 1999, pp.133-145.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article explores the relationship between self-advocacy and work for people with learning difficulties. Explorations are based mainly on participant observation study in which members of a self-advocacy group for people with learning difficulties included the researcher in their regular meetings. Discussions about work, most broadly defined as meaningful activity which makes a contribution to society, emerged as a preoccupations.