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Race equality discussion papers
- Authors:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, BUTT Jabeer, PATEL Bharti, STUART Ossie
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 73p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This discussion paper considers the characteristics of social care organisations that successfully promote diversity, and explores research on barriers to promoting diversity, as well as how these can be overcome. After exploring use of the term ‘diversity’, the authors suggest that diversity is used to mean taking account of the complexities of the lives of individuals and of groups of people, and the impact of these complexities on their experience of discrimination and disadvantage. In this context, the focus is on black and minority ethnic people as a group with multiple identities. So an organisation that successfully promotes diversity will take account of age, disability, gender and ‘race’ issues. In practice this could mean extending choice and control to a disabled Asian woman wanting to live ‘independently’ in an extension to her parents’ home, as well as to a 70-year-old Caribbean man with chronic arthritis living on his own in a council flat. This discussion paper draws on census data to demonstrate higher rates of longterm limiting illness and disability among black and minority ethnic communities in comparison to white communities, and in women in these communities more than men. This data is supplemented by evidence of a greater risk of unemployment and lower incomes amongst black and minority ethnic groups, and of poorer-quality housing. Black and minority ethnic communities are also less likely to benefit from a range of government initiatives that deal with social exclusion.
Between ambition and achievement: young black disabled people's views and experiences of independence and independent living
- Authors:
- BIGNALL Tracey, BUTT Jabeer
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 61p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Studies how young people of Asian, African and Caribbean origin, with a range of disabilities, manage the transition to adulthood with its gradual change from dependence on others to independence and self-reliance. Outlines the views of 44 such young people on the different issues that influenced their understanding and experiences of independence and independent living, including how race, culture and religion affect the understanding of disability and independence, how experiences of education and work influence independence, their interactions with social care agencies, and their ambitions and expectations for the future.
Social care and black communities: a review of recent research studies
- Authors:
- BUTT Jabeer, MIRZA Kurshida
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 162p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Provides a critical review of research looking at the prevalence, incidence and characteristics of the social care and related health needs of black and minority ethnic communities. Summarises information on the take-up, and access to social services of ethnic minorities. Material covered includes academic and published research; local authority studies; and voluntary and community group studies.