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Access to change
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.12.96, 1996, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The Disability Discrimination Act, backed by many social services departments, is now law. Warns of the dangers they will face when trying to meet its requirements.
All change for accessibility?
- Author:
- BASHALL Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Voluntary Voice, 107, September 1996, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- London Voluntary Service Council
Summarises the findings of a new report from GLAD, 'All change 2000', which looks at transport for disabled people in London.
Too little too late
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.1.96, 1996, p.19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 has been heavily criticised by most disability groups for inadequately addressing the impact of discrimination upon them. Reports on why disabled people feel let down by the Act.
Barriers to training for disabled social work students
- Authors:
- BARON Steve, PHILLIPS Rena, STALKER Kirsten
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 11(3), September 1996, pp.361-377.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Disabled people wishing to enter Higher Education are confronted with a number of barriers, yet relatively little research has been carried out to identify the level and nature of such obstacles. The short study reported here was designed to examine policy and practice within a number of social work training institutions in Scotland. Interviews were held with disabled students and ex-students, course tutors and practice teachers. Barriers to training are identified in five main area: first, the disabling physical environment; secondly, problems of typification (whereby global assumptions of impairment are made about individuals); thirdly, failure of equal opportunities policies; fourthly, the practice of treating all students in the same way, resulting in discrimination against a few; and, finally, self-censorship on the part of students. It is argued that the reluctance of some students to 'declare' an impairment is a rational response to the disabling policies pursued, albeit inadvertently, by institutions. The implications of these findings for policy and practice are discussed.
The Disability Discrimination Act 1995
- Authors:
- LANGTON-LOCKTON Sarah, SAWYER Ann
- Journal article citation:
- Access by Design, 71, September 1996, pp.7-9.
- Publisher:
- Centre for Accessible Environments
Outlines the provisions of the DDA now in force and identifies ways in which the Centre for Accessible Environments (CAE) can help employers and service providers plan to meet the access requirements of the Act.
Disability - what the new law says
- Author:
- GOODING Caroline
- Journal article citation:
- NCVO News, 96, July 1996, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- National Council for Voluntary Organisations
For the first time ever, disabled people will be protected against discrimination when the Disability and Discrimination Act comes into force later this year. Asks why so few celebrating. Looks at the implications of the Act for voluntary organisations.
Code of practice for the elimination of discrimination in the field of employment against disabled persons or persons who have had a disability; Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (as modified by Schedule 8 thereof for application in Northern Ireland)
- Author:
- NORTHERN IRELAND. Department of Economic Development for Northern Ireland
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 78p.
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
Sense and sensitivity
- Author:
- DOBSON Roger
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 9.5.96, 1996, p.21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Many feel the Disability Discrimination Act did not go far enough. The author discovers that deaf-blind people's needs are often overlooked by the Act.
Knowledge, power and the Disability Discrimination Bill
- Author:
- CHADWICK Alden
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 11(1), March 1996, pp.25-40.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article compares the social model of disability with the individual model upon which the Government's Disability Discrimination Bill is based. It use Foucault's concepts of Power/Knowledge and Governance, to develop an analysis which illustrates how both models of disability can impact on the identities of disabled people and local government practices. It suggests that, in order to assist disabled people to 'fashion a purpose', those disabled people and their allies working in local government need to operationalise the social model.
Blackstone's guide to the Disability Discrimination Act 1995
- Author:
- GOODING Caroline
- Publisher:
- Blackstone
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 138p.
- Place of publication:
- London