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'Community Care' - reinforcing the dependency of disabled people
- Author:
- SAPEY Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Applied Community Studies, 1(3), 1992, pp.21-29.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
By considering the ideological basis of a range of welfare policies from the Poor Law to the NHS and Community Care Act, identifies how those policies have helped to created dependency and in doing so, to oppress disabled people. The central argument is that the current community care policies share an ideology with the Poor Law and the National Assistance Act. As such it is unlikely to bring about a less oppressive model of welfare as far as disabled people are concerned. Some alternatives that have been proposed by disabled people are discussed, and considers the support received in recent years from some feminist social policy writers. Proposals for change at both structural and institutional levels are drawn from the experience of the USA. Questions whether such alternatives would be feasible in Britain, and more pertinently, questions the effect of implementing community care policies without a fundamental rethinking of their ideological bases.
At last, support without the stigma
- Author:
- SAPEY Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, December 1997, p.7.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Explains why social workers should actively support direct payments.
Disability and dependency: origins and futures of 'special needs' housing for disabled people
- Authors:
- STEWART John, HARRIS Jennifer, SAPEY Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 14(1), January 1999, pp.5-20.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Analyses the provision of housing for disabled people in both its historical and ideological contexts. While the recent extension of part M of the Building Regulations to dwellings by the government represents significant advance towards the inclusion of disabled people, the authors argue that the shift in funding of public housing from a 'bricks and mortar' subsidy to Housing Benefit potentially creates greater dependency. It is argued that if this issue is not addressed disabled people will continue to remain excluded, albeit within accessible dwellings.