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Chinese disability accommodation policy
- Author:
- FISHER Karen
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy Research Centre Newsletter, 96, May 2007, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- University of New South Wales. Social Policy Research Centre
This article describes research undertaken in 2006 in China on Chinese disability policy. It summarises the research process, findings and implications for the participation of the Social Policy Research Centre in Chinese disability policy research.
Choosing where you live
- Author:
- SCOPE
- Publisher:
- SCOPE
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Getting one's own home can be a long and complicated process for disabled people, but there are staff and organisations that will give them support, help and advice.
An end to a means
- Author:
- SALE Anabel Unity
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.12.05, 2005, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
There are plans to end the means testing of the disabled facilities grant. However, the author discusses how families will still face problems making the home adaptations they need with the grant limit currently at £25,000.
Supply and demand for barrier free and adapted dwellings: data from the Scottish House Condition Survey 1996
- Author:
- SCOTTISH HOMES
- Publisher:
- Communities Scotland/Scottish Homes Research
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Code of practice: rights of access; goods, facilities, services and premises
- Author:
- EQUALITY COMMISSION FOR NORTHERN IRELAND
- Publisher:
- Equality Commission for Northern Ireland
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 203p.
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
The Equality Commission has produced this Code of Practice on Part III of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA). The Code provides guidance for service providers on the measures they should take from October 2004 to ensure that physical features do not make their services impossible or unreasonably difficult for disabled people to use. The Act sets out four possible options for service providers: removing, altering or avoiding a physical feature, or providing the service by alternative means. The DDA does not prescribe what approach the service provider should use. However, the Commission believes that good practice and the most sensible approach will be to remove or alter the physical barrier to the service wherever this is possible. This is undoubtedly the most effective long term solution for both the service provider and disabled people.
Means of improvement?
- Author:
- LEASON Katie
- Journal article citation:
- 0-19, September 2004, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business
Many families with disabled children need to adapt their homes. Reports how stringent means testing leaves many parents out of pocket or unable to pay for the necessary changes. Looks at evidence from a recent study from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation 'The housing needs of disabled children: the national evidence'.
Supporting people with acquired brain injury in their own homes
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Connections was established in 1993 to provide flexible support to enable people with acquired brain injuries to live in ordinary housing instead of a hospital or supported accommodation and to develop community links. This evaluation set out to establish whether or not the Connectiins model satisfactorily supported people to live in the community, and to identify the key features of the service.
Housing, disabled children and their families
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The majority of disabled children live at home on a permanent basis with their families. They have been identified as a group which 'slips through the net' in terms of meeting their housing needs. This finding describes how researchers at the University of York have carried out the first in-depth study of the impact of housing on the lives of disabled children and their families.
Mind the step: an estimation of housing need among wheelchair users in England
- Authors:
- JOSEPH Glen, et al
- Publisher:
- Habinteg Housing Association
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 60p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This research report focuses on the need to provide homes that are fully wheelchair accessible. Using secondary data analysis and a review of existing literature the research provides: estimates of unmet housing need for wheelchair users; figures on the availability of wheelchair standard homes; a method for estimating unmet housing need and an indicative requirement for new wheelchair user homes at local authority level; the context of national policy and arrangements for regional and local strategic planning; identifies particular groups of people requiring wheelchair standard homes; and considers how local authorities and housing providers can make effective
use of existing wheelchair standard homes and increase the supply of accessible properties. The authors conclude with 9 recommendations, including continuing HCA funding at rate of 7,850 new wheelchair standard homes per year and setting up Local Authority Accessible Housing Registers.
Adapting for a lifetime: the key role of home improvement agencies in adaptations delivery
- Author:
- RAMSAY Malcolm
- Publisher:
- Foundations
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 44p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Glossop
In Autumn 2007, Foundations, the national body for home improvement agencies, was commissioned to carry out research examining the options for the future delivery of home improvement agency services. This document is one of the resulting reports, and it concerns the role of home improvement agencies in delivering major adaptations. This report examines the effect of recent changes to the Disabled Facilities Grant programme, drawing on research carried out within the home improvement agency sector. It looks at the challenges presented by the complexity of the process, the funding shortages and the lack of partnership working. It describes how home improvement agencies can help local authorities get the most out of DFG budgets and sets out examples of innovation and good practice in delivering major adaptations. It also spells out how adaptations can move from a provider-led to a client-led process. The report concludes by making recommendations for the future development of home improvement agencies in relation to delivering major adaptations.