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Disabled in Britain: a world apart
- Authors:
- LAMB Brian, LAYZELL Sarah
- Publisher:
- SCOPE
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 73p.,diags.
- Place of publication:
- London
Presents a picture of the hopes, needs and aspirations of disabled people in Britain, raising fundamental questions about disabled people's exclusion from many areas of life.
Improving the life chances of disabled people: final report
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Cabinet Office. Prime Minister's Strategy Unit
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Cabinet Office. Prime Minister's Strategy Unit
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 244p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report sets out an ambitious programme of action that will bring disabled people fully within the scope of the “opportunity society”. By supporting disabled people to help themselves, a step change can be achieved in the participation and inclusion of disabled people. The report proposes that the Government should set an ambitious vision for improving the life chances of disabled people. Future strategy for disabled people should seek to realise this vision through practical measures in four key areas. (1) Helping disabled people to achieve independent living by moving progressively to individual budgets for disabled people, drawing together the services to which they are entitled and giving them greater choice over the mix of support they receive in the form of cash and/or direct provision of services. (2) Improving support for families with young disabled children by ensuring families of disabled children benefit from childcare and early education provided to all children; meeting the extra needs of families with disabled children; and ensuring services are centred on disabled children and their families, not on processes and funding streams. (3) Facilitating a smooth transition into adulthood by putting in place improved mechanisms for effective planning for the transition to adulthood and the support that goes with this; removing “cliff edges” in service provision; and giving disabled young people access to a more transparent and more appropriate menu of opportunities and choices. (4) Improving support and incentives for getting and staying in employment by ensuring that support is available well before a benefit claim is made; reforming the gateway onto entitlements; providing effective work-focused training for disabled people; and improving Access to Work.
Exercising the right to freedom of choice
- Author:
- HASLER Frances
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, June 1999, pp.6-7.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
The introduction of direct payments meant that people with disabilities were able to arrange their own services. The author, of the National Centre for Independent Living explores the difference this had made to disabled people taking up this option.
Support and access in sports and leisure provision
- Author:
- DEVAS Magda
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(2), March 2003, pp.231-245.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper will look at different ways of enabling people with learning difficulties to engage in leisure opportunities: the Support Model and the Access Model. These models will be put in their social context and then critiqued. The support model will be be contextualised in the theory of normalisation, access in disability theory. The support worker role will be shown to be useful in motivating people with learning difficlties into new activities, as well as having a protecting element, and unwittingly, disguise the level of discrimination people with learning difficulties are subject to. The access worker role will be shown to have strengths in understanding discrimination. With this analysis, it has the potential to dismantle disabling practices. However, the needs of people with learning difficulties have ramifications for disability theory. In practice, that means that ideas of self-advocacy need to be taken on board. Through interviews with sports personnel, social workers and people with learning difficulties, the implications of creating fully comprehensive access will be examined. I will conclude that both effective support and comprehensive access must be in place before people with learning difficulties are able to make a meaningful choice as to how they are enabled to participate in sports. It is only at that point of choice that the two models become complementary rather than competing discourses of provision.
Time to pass the buck
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.3.99, 1999, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The government's disability awareness campaign, See the Person, comes at the same time as disabled people face benefit cuts. Examines Labour's fine words and tightening purse strings.
The learning experience of students with disabilities in higher education. A case study of a UK university
- Authors:
- BORLAND John, JAMES Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 14(1), January 1999, pp.85-101.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Summarises the results of an investigation into the social and learning experiences of students with disabilities in a UK university. The students' experiences were evaluated in three broad areas: with respect to the categories used by the Higher Education Council to examine the quality of the learning experience for all students in higher education; against the issues conventionally included in studies and policy developments for independent living for people with disabilities; and in relation to the impact coming to university has on the lives of students with disabilities.
Disabling barriers: enabling environments
- Editors:
- SWAIN John, et al
- Publisher:
- Sage/Open University
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 319p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Argues that 'disability' is caused by the way society is organised and that numerous social, structural and economic barriers deny people with disabilities the opportunity of full citizenship and equal opportunities. Critically reviews professional practice and describes alternative models of support which give disabled people control over their own lives.