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A commission with teeth?
- Author:
- DALY Nikki
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 30.7.98, 1998, p.9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Examines the reaction to the recently published White Paper on a Disability Rights Commission.
Social Security Green Paper
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- SCOLAG Journal, 249, March 1998, pp.38-40.
- Publisher:
- ScoLAG(Scottish Legal Action Group)
Discusses how welfare benefits have a relatively short shelf-life in the UK and how the Government's new green paper - New Ambitions for Our Country: A New Contract for Welfare - is set to introduce a further layer of benefit reform. Provides a summary of the Government's consultation paper.
Promoting disabled people's rights: creating a Disability Rights Commission fit for the 21st century: presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Education and Employment by Command of Her Majesty July 1998
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Education and Employment
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 48p.
- Place of publication:
- London
White paper seeking views of the Government's proposals on the role and functions of the Disability Rights Commission, which the Government is committed to establishing.
Government proposals for a Disability Rights Commission
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Integrate News, 71, October 1998, pp.17-20.
Provides a summary of the Governments' recently published White Paper 'Promoting disabled people's rights: creating a Disability Rights Commission for the 21st Century'.
Framework or straightjacket?
- Author:
- COOPER Kristiina
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.10.98, 1998, p.10.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The forthcoming White Paper is going to recommend that charging for services will be standardised. Argues that it is understood to include plans to introduce a national framework towards standardising charges for services to elderly and disabled people. Says price consistency could be less freedom for local authorities.
New ambitions, old dreams - the green paper on welfare reform
- Author:
- GRAY Jim
- Journal article citation:
- SCOLAG Journal, 252, June 1998, pp.91-94.
- Publisher:
- ScoLAG(Scottish Legal Action Group)
The author scrutinises the Government's green paper, 'A new contract for welfare', and laments the demise of the "cradle to the grave" philosophy which underpinned the welfare state from its inception.
The Green Paper: a new contract for welfare?
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Welfare Rights Bulletin, 143, April 1998, pp.5-6.
- Publisher:
- Child Poverty Action Group
Discusses the main proposals of the Green Paper relating to benefits including provisions for disabled people, prevention of fraud, and modernising services.
Disability benefits: where next; a consultation paper from MIND's policy department
- Author:
- MIND
- Publisher:
- MIND
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Outlines the proposals in the Governments green paper 'A new contract for welfare' and invites readers to comment so that MIND can include any relevant points in its response to the paper. Also details the 'Disability Earnings Concession' and invites comments.
The Green Paper on Welfare Reform - CPAG's response
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Poverty, 101, Autumn 1998, pp.1-6.
- Publisher:
- Child Poverty Action Group
This article summarises the Child Poverty Action Group's response to the Green Paper on welfare reform.
A new deal for children with special educational needs?
- Author:
- O'GRADY Carolyn
- Journal article citation:
- Coordinate, 65, May 1998, pp.5-6.
- Publisher:
- National Early Years Network
Reports on how the Green Paper also promotes more inclusion of children with special educational needs (SEN) within mainstream schools and more involvement of and support for parents.