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Time for a service overhaul
- Author:
- McCURRY Patrick
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 6.4.00, 2000, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Investigates what the government is doing about the provision of equipment for disabled people.
Wage dilemma over jobs for disabled people
- Author:
- McCURRY Patrick
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.7.00, 2000, p.10.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Charities say that the minimum wage means they are struggling to afford therapeutic work. Asks if exemption would mean disabled people being exploited.
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.
Involving volunteers with disabilities
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Volunteering, 64, December 2000, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Volunteering England
Presents guidance on involving people with disabilities in volunteering.
Learning if policy will work: the case of new deal for disabled people
- Author:
- WALKER Robert
- Journal article citation:
- Policy Studies, 21(4), December 2000, pp.314-332.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The New Labour government is committed to the piloting and evaluation of its welfare to work policies prior to full national implementation. An example is the Personal Adviser component of its New Deal for Disabled People, which aims to increase levels of paid employment and employability among disabled people of working age. Taking the Personal Adviser pilots as a case study, the article discusses issues that arise when designing policy evaluations to inform national policy decisions and implementation, including randomisation, discrepant time scales, and 'cherry picking'. Whether the new relationship between British politicians and policy evaluators can continue to blossom is debatable.
Easing the pain of transition
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 28.9.00, 2000, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Your disabled child has grown up and is about to leave school. His or her world of support is about to end and another start. This article looks at one Southampton parent's stressful experience when responsibility changed from children's to adult services.
Commission seeks to add to its remit
- Author:
- REVANS Lauren
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.9.00, 2000, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The fledgling Disability Rights Commission is already scoring victories for disabled people, but it wants to use the Human Rights Act to go further.
A global perspective on social security programmes for disabled people
- Authors:
- DIXON John, HYDE Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(5), August 2000, pp.709-730.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
By the mid-1990s, 163 countries had statutory general disability programmes. Most have adopted social insurance as their primary policy instrument, which restricts coverage to those in paid formal employment, make benefit eligibility dependent upon the satisfying of specific minimum contribution period requirements and provides earnings-related pensions. Many countries also provide supplementary and special need benefits. Programme funding comes overwhelmingly from employer and employee contributions, with a majority of countries providing government subsidies. Using a methodology that assesses national statutory social security intensions, ranking of these disability programmes reveals that Australia has the best designed one.
Question time
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.6.00, 2000, p.27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Community Care puts some questions to the social security minister Alistair Darling.
Keeping track of welfare reform: the new deal programme
- Author:
- Millar Jane
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 55p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Since the 1997 election, the Labour Government has pursued an ambitious programme of welfare reform. Central to this are the New Deal programmes, aimed at getting people into work and helping them to stay in work. They include compulsory programmes for young people and the long-term unemployed, and voluntary programmes for lone parents and disabled people. This report provides the first overview of the key results, comparing the different New Deal programmes and placing them in the context of the broader frame of welfare to work policies. The research shows that there has been a positive impact on employment rates, and that participation in the New Deal often helps people improve their job-seeking strategies, confidence and skills. One of the main innovations, and central to the way participants perceive the New Deal, is the key role given to the ‘personal advisers’.