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The empowerment of marginals: strategic paradoxes
- Authors:
- van HOUTEN Douwe, JACOBS Gaby
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 20(6), October 2005, pp.641-654.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article is about the disability movement in the Netherlands and its strategies for empowerment of disabled people. Only since the end of 2003 has the Netherlands enjoyed antidiscrimination legislation for disabled people. But, how important actually is legislation for the empowerment of disabled people? To answer this question, the authors take a closer look at social movements and their involvement in empowerment and active citizenship. We criticise the disregard of differences and care in notions of active citizenship and propose instead the idea of a ‘varied society’ based on the notions of diverse and ‘careful citizenship’. One of the main arguments is that empowerment strategies necessary to create this kind of society are above all bottom-up strategies. However, the highly organised disability movement in the Netherlands is confronted with strategic paradoxes that have ‘depowering’ consequences. Based on these paradoxes, five recommendations for the disability movement in the Netherlands are presented.
Access audit handbook
- Author:
- GRANT Alison
- Publisher:
- Centre for Accessible Environments; RIBA Publishing
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 130p., DVD
- Place of publication:
- London
This is a multimedia planning tool for auditing the accessibility of buildings and services, and writing reports in appropriate formats in the context of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, funding requirements and best practice in building management. The handbook offers straightforward guidance about undertaking access audits and the various report formats to best communicate recommendations. Practical advice is supported by a range of case studies and an authoritative worked example of a successful report based on a real-life access audit. This is supplemented by a series of up-to-date auditing checklists and a DVD that includes both editable, electronic versions of the checklists and an award-winning film, Access Audits: a planning tool for businesses, which will provide a good understanding of what access audits are, their purpose and how to carry one out.
Bound to comply
- Author:
- CHESTER Marion
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 12.12.96, 1996, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Explains the implications of a recent judgment in which the court ruled that two major volumes of community care guidance had statutory force.
Delivering adaptations: desk guide; a consultation paper
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office,|Great Britain. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 50p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The principal aim of this document is to offer advice to local authorities on how they can establish a first class service which can deliver adaptations to the homes of disabled people in order to meet their needs and statutory entitlements. The document sets out: the key principles which should lie at the heart of designing an adaptations service; the legislative context underlying the requirement to provide the service; and the key components required to make an adaptations service fit for purpose.
Delivering adaptations: responding to the need for adaptation; an overview
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 11p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The principal aim of this document is to offer advice to local authorities on how they can establish a first class service which can deliver adaptations to the homes of disabled people in order to meet their needs and statutory entitlements. The document sets out: the key principles which should lie at the heart of designing an adaptations service; the legislative context underlying the requirement to provide the service; and the key components required to make an adaptations service fit for purpose.
From expectations to experiences: revisiting the views of the voluntary sector on the Children (Scotland) Act 1995
- Author:
- MILLEN Dianne
- Publisher:
- Children in Scotland
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 38p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Outlines the results of consultations with voluntary organisations and local government authorities in Scotland. The report aims to establish what priorities voluntary organisations have in relation to he implementation of the Act, and what new responsibilities are acquired by the result of the Act.
Over to you: guide to good practice in implementing the Children (Scotland) Act 1995
- Author:
- CHILDREN IN SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Children in Scotland
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 55p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Explains the implications of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 for voluntary organisations. Gives case studies of projects that have put the act's provisions into practice and describes voluntary organisations' potential role in service planning; promoting user participation; services to disabled children; and fund raising.
Benefit protection
- Author:
- SCOTT Judy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.9.03, 2003, pp.42-43.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at the complexities of involving users with mental health problems, learning difficulties and disabilities in service planning if their state benefits are to be protected. Discusses areas of relevant legislation: the benefits system, the Minimum Wage Act 1998, and employment law.
Child welfare policy and practice: issues and lessons emerging from current research
- Editors:
- IWANIEC Dorota, HILL Malcolm
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 304p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Explores the implications of recent research for all those concerned with child welfare and social work. Addresses topical issues as expressed by central government bodies and enquiries regarding services and policies relating to children in need of care and protection. Includes papers on: issues emerging from child care research post Children Act 1989; the legal and policy contexts for children's services in Scotland and Northern Ireland; the involvement of voluntary organisations in the first Scottish children's services plans; operationalising the definition of children in need from UK child care legislation; understanding and developing family support in Northern Ireland; the transition to adulthood of disabled young people in Northern Ireland; an evaluation of the Scottish pilot of the looking after children records system; educating looked after children; social work conceptions regarding black children in Scotland; the outcomes of a twenty year follow up of children who failed to thrive; communication between child and adult and the implications for use of the live link with child witnesses; and law, policy, practice and research in child and family social work.