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Improving the life chances of disabled people: summary tables: the first annual report from the Office for Disability Issues 2006
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Office for Disability Issues
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Office for Disability Issues
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 54p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Government's Office for Disability Issues (ODI) has published its first Annual Report to the Prime Minister, detailing the progress that is being made towards realising the Government's ambitious vision for real equality for disabled people by 2025
Improving the life chances of disabled people: the first annual report of the Office for Disability Issues 2006
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Office for Disability Issues
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Office for Disability Issues
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 94p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Government's Office for Disability Issues (ODI) has published its first Annual Report to the Prime Minister, detailing the progress that is being made towards realising the Government's ambitious vision for real equality for disabled people by 2025.
A Framework for supported employment
- Authors:
- O'BRYAN Anne, et al
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 45p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Outlines a framework for a new approach to supported employment for disabled people. Begins by defining supported employment and describes current provision in Britain, with reference to access, funding, quality, and the impact of the benefit system Looks at provision in other countries. Puts forward proposals for improving practice in all the above respects.
Mind the step: an estimation of housing need among wheelchair users in England
- Authors:
- JOSEPH Glen, et al
- Publisher:
- Habinteg Housing Association
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 60p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This research report focuses on the need to provide homes that are fully wheelchair accessible. Using secondary data analysis and a review of existing literature the research provides: estimates of unmet housing need for wheelchair users; figures on the availability of wheelchair standard homes; a method for estimating unmet housing need and an indicative requirement for new wheelchair user homes at local authority level; the context of national policy and arrangements for regional and local strategic planning; identifies particular groups of people requiring wheelchair standard homes; and considers how local authorities and housing providers can make effective
use of existing wheelchair standard homes and increase the supply of accessible properties. The authors conclude with 9 recommendations, including continuing HCA funding at rate of 7,850 new wheelchair standard homes per year and setting up Local Authority Accessible Housing Registers.
Tasmania Together?: a disability critique of a social plan
- Authors:
- NEWELL Christopher, WILKINSON Robin
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(4), June 2003, pp.457-470.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The 'Tasmania Together' social futures plan for Tasmania is critically examined. Authored by a Tasmanian Government appointed Community Leaders Group, on behalf of the people of Tasmania, the plan is supposed to deliver a better Tasmanian society by 2020, based upon community consultation. Rather than a step-forward in democracy, the process serves to remove the democratic rights of people, especially those who are disadvantaged. A critique from a disability perspective is offered, which suggests that this social plan constitutes a form of institutionalised disablism.
Business plan 1990/91
- Author:
- KENT COUNTY COUNCIL. Social Services Department
- Publisher:
- Kent County Council. Social Sevices Department
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 22p.
- Place of publication:
- Maidstone
Gives aims and objectives for service provision to the elderly, children and families, mentally handicapped and mentally ill people and physically handicapped people.
Glasgow City Council's draft plan for children's services
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Integrate News, 66, October 1997, pp.17-20.
This article presents extracts from Glasgow City Council's recently published Preliminary Draft Children's Services Plan.
Coping with the care of a severely disabled child
- Author:
- BERESFORD Bryony
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 4(1), January 1996, pp.30-40.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The unrelenting, and often overwhelming, stresses experienced by parents caring for a disabled child have been well charted, as have their impact on personal and family well-being. This paper reports on a study which took such research a step further by focusing on the ways parents cope with the stresses and strains of care. Reports on the way in which the negative aspects of caring for a disabled child were balanced by two positive factors: the parent-child relationship and the ways parents coped with the problems they encountered and the emotional distress they felt. Discusses parents different coping strategies and the role of services in supporting parents in the ways they chose to cope.
Accessibility and care in a rural area - the case of Tewkesbury Borough
- Author:
- MOSELEY Malcolm
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 14(2), 1996, pp.19-25.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
In rural areas, the limited availability of appropriate public transport and the increasing geographic concentration of many service outlets, pose serious difficulties for those social service client groups which exhibit low levels of car ownership. Considers the transport needs of elderly and disabled people and carers in a largely rural district of Tewkesbury. It also establishes the range of transport potentially available to them, whether in the statutory, commercial or voluntary sectors. A holistic approach is advocated, both in researching such a need and provision and the planning and management of strategies to improve accessibility. A central dilemma is addressed, whether to have central co-ordination along 'brokerage' lines or the devolution of decisions to local managers?
Allocation of care and services in an area-based system for long-term care of elderly and disabled people
- Author:
- LAGERGREN Marten
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 14(3), September 1994, pp.357-381.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
In order to analyse the allocation of public care services in the city of Solna, Sweden, and how they changed in response to a rapid growth of the number of elderly people, a comparison was made between two surveys, 1985 and 1991. The analysis showed that older and non-married persons were more likely to become clients of the public care system. Institutionalisation was also more common among the non-married - especially for men. Reductions in institutionalisation had most impact on very old, non-married men. Functional disability and living arrangements were the most important variables in explaining the allocation of home help in domiciliary care and sheltered housing.