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Diversify to survive
- Author:
- VERNON Maxine
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.4.02, 2002, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how the government is reaching out beyond the traditional sources of volunteers in the growing recognition that volunteering is in itself a route to social inclusion.
Forcing the issue
- Author:
- BENNETT Fran
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 31.7.97, 1997, pp.6-7.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how meaningful the government's welfare reform strategy is for those who are socially excluded, through old age, sickness, disability or their responsibilities as carers. The author considers the alternatives.
Social security
- Author:
- VAUX Gary
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 17, April 2004, pp.65-72.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Looks at a number of research studies which highlight how difficult it can be to reduce social exclusion by improving benefit take-up.
Paying the price: carers, poverty and social exclusion
- Author:
- HOWARD Marilyn
- Publisher:
- Child Poverty Action Group
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 141p.,list of orgs.
- Place of publication:
- London
There are approximately six million people in the UK who provide care and support for someone, usually a relative or partner, who, because of age, health or disability, are unable to cope alone. Although this form of unpaid care work saves the taxpayer an estimated £34 billion a year in health and social services, the carers themselves are often left in poverty, excluded from any active social life and often without paid employment. This publication draws on recent research that looks at the way caring impacts on the lives of different types of carers. Each different group is examined a case study is presented to illustrate the different obstacles faced. The groups covered include: young carers; parent carers; working-age carers (and work), and; carers over pension age.
Caring communities and community development: how can care and community mix
- Author:
- HENDERSON Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 3(3), September 2000, pp.15-19.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Addresses issues raised in this Journal (Vol.3, Issue 1) on the relationship between supporting people and neighbourhood renewal. Using findings from an action-research project, it argues the case for placing community care within a social inclusion framework which uses a community development approach.
Older people
- Author:
- MANTHORPE Jill
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 2000, 2000, pp.30-32.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
The link between growing old and declining income is well documented. Looks at research which highlights other factors than can increase older people's poverty and feelings of social exclusion.
Does the NHS deserve a golden celebration
- Authors:
- HIRST Judy, WELLARD Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 9.7.98, 1998, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
As the NHS celebrates its 50th anniversary, the authors reflect on the service it offers and examines the experiences of vulnerable social groups.
Understanding poverty
- Author:
- ALCOCK Pete
- Publisher:
- Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 301p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
- Edition:
- 2nd
Provides a review of research on, and debates about, the problem of poverty in the 1990s. Covers the definition and measurement of poverty, its distribution and causes, and the development of anti-poverty strategy. Also looks at: the dynamics of deprivation; the 'underclass'; poverty in Europe and beyond; defining and measuring poverty; gender, racism, ageing and disability; social security policy; welfare rights; and the politics of poverty and the welfare state.
Beyond the workfare state: labour markets, equality and human rights
- Editors:
- CARPENTER Mick, FREDA Belinda, SPEEDEN Stuart, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 192p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Beyond the Workfare State explores equality, discrimination and human rights in relation to employability and 'welfare-to-work' policies. It draws extensively on new research from the SEQUAL Project, undertaken for the European Social Fund, which investigated seven dimensions of discrimination in a labour market that is theoretically 'open to all'. The book provides an overall analysis of policy shifts and presents a wide and distinctive range of illustrative studies that give voice to a variety of potentially marginalised groups. Chapters deal with obstacles to labour-market access around each of the following themes: gender and class; disability; race and ethnicity; geographical exclusion; sexual orientation; the problems of old and young people; and refugees.
Making the connections: the final report on transport and social exclusion
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Social Exclusion Unit
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Social Exclusion Unit
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 147p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report examines the links between social exclusion, transport and the location of services. It is particularly focused on access to those opportunities that have the most impact on life-chances, such as work, learning and healthcare. People may not be able to access services as a result of social exclusion. For example, they may be restricted in their use of transport by low incomes, or because bus routes do not run to the right places. Age and disability can also stop people driving and using public transport. Problems with transport provision and the location of services can reinforce social exclusion. They prevent people from accessing key local services or activities, such as jobs, learning, healthcare, food shopping or leisure. Problems can vary by type of area (for example urban or rural) and for different groups of people, such as disabled people, older people or families with children. The effects of road traffic also disproportionately impact on socially excluded areas and individuals through pedestrian accidents, air pollution, noise and the effect on local communities of busy roads cutting through residential areas.