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Partners for progress: employers working with people with disabilities
- Author:
- BREUER Zoey
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 4(1), February 2000, pp.25-27.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Over the past five years many mental health organisations have participated in the European Union's HORIZON programme - a sub-division of the employment community initiative. As a result of this programme many innovative schemes supporting disabled and disadvantaged people in obtaining and keeping jobs have been set up in Britain and across Europe. This article summarises the work that has been done to inform and persuade employers that it is in their interest to make use of the skills of disabled people.
The non-competitive activity book
- Author:
- DYNES Robin
- Publisher:
- Speechmark
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 140p.
- Place of publication:
- Milton Keynes
A practical handbook with 100 non-competitive activities that can be used across a variety of ages, individuals or groups. The material can be used with people with learning disabilities, mental health problems, physical disabilities and older people. Activities are in the following sections: Starters and pairing up games; Movement; Perception; Cognitive stimulation; and Endings. The contents are photocopiable. As the activities are non-competitive means that people can become involved without a fear of failure or disappointment. A useful resource for day centres, hospitals and care homes.
The dynamics of being disabled
- Author:
- BURCHARDT Tania
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 29(4), October 2000, pp.645-668.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
In recent years, the dynamics of poverty and unemployment have come under increasing scrutiny, but another of the risks with which the welfare state concerns itself - disability - is still largely understood only in a static sense. This article uses longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey to investigate the complexity behind a cross-sectional snapshot. First, a breakdown is given of the working-age population who are disabled at any one time by the "disability trajectories" they follow over a seven-year period. Second, the expected duration of disability for those who become disabled during working life is examined. The results show that only a small proportion of working age people who experience disability are long-term disabled, although at any one time, long-term disabled people make up a high proportion of all disabled people. Over half of those who become limited in activities of daily living as adults have spells lasting less than two years, but few who remain disabled after four years recover. intermittent patterns of disability, particularly due to mental illness are common. Failing to distinguish the different disability trajectories people follow has led to policies which marginalise disabled people and are costly to the state.
Art for people's sake
- Author:
- GREEN Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.6.00, 2000, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The art world often looks like an intimidating place from the outside - all the more so for people whose creativity has never been encouraged. Reports on a project in Bournemouth which overcame these obstacles for a diverse group of service users.
Without prejudice
- Author:
- MISHCON Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 4(3), November 2000, p.84.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Reports on the findings of the Daniel Joseph inquiry team.
Right on our side
- Author:
- JACKSON Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 4(1), September 2000, pp.6-8.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Reports on how legislation is just one of the many tools the Disability Rights Commission will be using to tackle discrimination.
Benefits flexibility pilots - a chance to put the arguments to the test
- Author:
- SCOTT Judy
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 4(3), August 2000, pp.28-30.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The arguments about loosening up the benefits system to allow disabled people to work and retain more of their benefits need testing and evaluation in practice if they are ever to be resolved. The government's encouragement of area based initiatives to help improve the health and wealth of deprived communities provides an opportunity to do just this. Outlines one scheme being put forward.
Appeal court broadens definition of disability
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.6.00, 2000, p.11.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on a landmark ruling means that people with depression can claim protection from the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.
From welfare to work
- Author:
- HYAMS Lynn
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 3(9), May 2000, p.314.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
The Disabled Person's Tax Credit is a special allowance intended to make it easier for people to move from long-term sickness benefits to waged work.
Meeting the housing needs of disabled children
- Authors:
- OLDHAM Christine, BERESFORD Bryony
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 3(1), March 2000, pp.25-28.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article is based on two pieces of work. The first, Homes Unfit for Children (Oldham and Beresford, 1998), was based on a postal survey and 40 in-depth interviews with families with disabled children. The second, due to be published by the Policy Press in the spring this year, reports the results of a programme of consultation roadshow with a range of professionals from housing, social services and health, in a series of regional consultation meetings.