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Equal opportunities is your business too: guidance for Scotland
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive. Commission for racial Equality
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive. Commission for Racial Equality
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Equality in Scotland: disabled people
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Play and opportunity for disabled children
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Childright, 172, December 2000, p.11.
- Publisher:
- Children's Legal Centre
Presents some of the key points from the recent publication, 'Side by Side', which looks at the inclusion and participation of disabled children in play environments.
Disability Discrimination Act: from statute to practice
- Author:
- GOODING Caroline
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 20(4), November 2000, pp.533-549.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article outlines the interpretation of the Disability Discrimination Act in the courts. It reports some early indications of employers' and service providers' responses to the new law, and considers some alternative explanations for its relatively limited impact. The author argues that more proactive measures need to be taken, with an explicit emphasis on achieving substantive, rather than merely formal, equality.
A wake-up call for service providers
- Author:
- ASPIS Simone
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 14(2), October 2000, p.8.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Discusses how the Disability Discrimination Act aims to make services providers aware of their responsibilities to ensure that disabled people are not confronted by disablist attitudes or subject to negative generalisations by being labelled as having learning difficulties.
Shaping the future: report on the blind and partially sighted young people
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Childright, 172, December 2000, p.14.
- Publisher:
- Children's Legal Centre
Summarises the key findings of a recent report examining the barriers faced by the blind and partially sighted in everyday life. This article focuses on the lack of support these children receive in education.
Commission seeks to add to its remit
- Author:
- REVANS Lauren
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.9.00, 2000, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The fledgling Disability Rights Commission is already scoring victories for disabled people, but it wants to use the Human Rights Act to go further.
Care managers can be champions for direct payments
- Author:
- BEWLEY Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 6(4), June 2000, pp.13-16.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Since the introduction of direct payments in 1997, only limited progress has been made in introducing schemes for people with learning difficulties. This article reviews the developments and the challenges, including the difficulties caused by publicity over the South Lanarkshire case. Care managers should do more to support and promote direct payments which are "exciting, challenging, innovative tools that help us towards empowerment and equality".
Disability
- Author:
- THORNTON Patricia
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 9, April 2000, pp.52-54.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Disabled people often face immense difficulties when they want to move off benefits and into employment. Describes new research that set out to evaluate the government's New Deal for Disabled People. Also considers research that examined the Disability Discrimination Act and another piece that focused on disabled people's earning and employment opportunities.
Social care practice handbook
- Authors:
- LEONARD CHESHIRE, SOCIAL CARE ASSOCIATION
- Publisher:
- Leonard Cheshire,|Social Care Association
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- ca. 254p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This resource covers all aspects of dealing with clients in health care, social care, home car, day care and short-term residential and day-care settings, including fundamental basics, such as respecting clients rights and effective communication. Includes a code of ethics and policy on equal opportunities.