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Disability in Scotland: a baseline study
- Authors:
- RIDDELL Sheila, BANKS Pauline
- Publisher:
- Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 144p.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
Social justice and disabled people: principles and challenges
- Authors:
- GOODLAD Robina, RIDDELL Sheila
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Society, 4(1), January 2005, pp.45-54.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Social justice is a policy aim of the UK Labour government. This paper considers the applicability of the concept to disability, seeking to establish principles for conceptualising social justice and disability and considering the nature of the challenges for public policy and society posed by this conceptualisation. The paper considers how disability is implicated in two types of claims about the source of social injustice: those concerned with socially constructed differences between people; and those arising from material inequalities. Appropriate values underpinning alternative conceptions of social justice are discussed and tensions in policymaking considered.