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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.
Housing: new laws may force people back into institutions
- Author:
- ASPIS Simone
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 9(4), April 1996, pp.4-5.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The author fears the Government's plan to introduce new criteria for Disability Facilities Grants and Housing Benefit could mean a return to long-term residence in institutions for disabled people.