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Shared doubts
- Author:
- NOBLE Laura
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.10.97, 1997, p.11.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at the role of the private sector in the disability benefit system reforms.
Eager for change
- Author:
- PHILPOT Terry
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.9.97, 1997, p.26.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on legal measures being proposed in Canada to ensure that its four million disabled people are treated as fellow citizens in the criminal justice system.
Where's the benefit?
- Author:
- CAMPBELL Andy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.7.97, 1997, p.33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Registered homes legislation has had the unintended effect of barring access to benefits for disabled adults living in domestic settings under adult placement schemes. Explains the problem.
Integration and inclusion: illusion or progress in services for disabled people?
- Author:
- NORTHWAY Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 31(2), June 1997, pp.157-172.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Analyses the meanings of "integration" and "inclusion" in the context of disability services to determine the extent to which the latter signals a change in perspective rather than simply a change in terminology. It is argued that integration implies that disabled people need to be integrated into "mainstream" society and that it is they rather than society which is required to change. Concludes that while barriers exist, they should not in themselves provide a reason for inaction as an understanding of the implications of inclusion for policy and practice can provide a useful starting-point from which to bring about change.
Access to assessment: perspectives of practitioners, disabled people and carers
- Authors:
- DAVIS Ann, ELLIS Kathryn, RUMMERY Kirstein
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 82p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
In order to look at how disabled people and carers access local authority assessments for community care services, the authors explore how social workers use the recently introduced forms of assessment procedures, and ask disabled people and carers what they think of the new arrangements.
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.
Towards a national framework for tackling adult abuse
- Authors:
- AMBACHE Jeremy, DAVEY Ian
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, November 1997, p.20.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
There are signs that social services agencies and national government are taking the abuse of vulnerable adults more seriously. With speculation that the Government is about to publish a Green Paper on the subject, the authors explain how policies on abuse have already evolved.
Give them the money: is cash a route to empowerment
- Author:
- UNGERSON Clare
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 31(1), March 1997, pp.45-53.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Suggests it is important to unpack the notion of "empowerment" in community care so that the position of those who provide "hands-on" care is scrutinised alongside the empowerment of "users" of care. Considers the particular case of the forthcoming Direct Payments legislation. It is argues that both employers and employees in these care relationships are likely to be on low incomes, that the work is likely to be insecure and possibly unregulated, that there might be a problem of labour supply, and that in the long run, this form of employment might generate hardship for the workers so employed. Also considers other forms of reconciling the interests of both users and "carers".
Helping disabled people at work
- Author:
- McGINNIS Brian
- Journal article citation:
- ReHab NetWork, 48, Winter 1997, pp.11-14.
- Publisher:
- National Vocational Rehabilitation Association
Presents some of the key findings from the recently published report, 'Helping disabled people to work: a cross-national study of social security and employment provisions'. The report looks at the UK in comparison with Australia, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden.
No place like home
- Author:
- EATON Lynn
- Journal article citation:
- Search, 28, Autumn 1997, pp.19-21.
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
A wide-ranging review of research reveals a damaging mismatch between policies on community care and housing. The author examines the impact the lack of a coherent approach is having on the efforts of people with disabilities or mental health problems to lead more independent lives.