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Working and caring: developments at the workplace for family carers of disabled and older people
- Author:
- PHILLIPS Judith Eleri
- Publisher:
- European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 59p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Dublin
Report from an international conference highlighting issues around working and caring, focusing in particular on those caring for older and disabled people. Presents the policy issues from the perspectives of employers, Trade Unions, governments and public authorities; and non-governmental organisations and carers organisations. Goes on to look at why caring for adults is a workplace issue and at what is being done for working carers. Concludes with a section on what can be done to improve the employment prospects of carers.
Options for long-term care: economic, social and ethical choices
- Editors:
- HARDING Tessa, MEREDITH Barbara, WISTOW Gerald
- Publisher:
- HMSO/National Institute for Social Work
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 152p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Examines the debate around long term care and proposes a different approach to planning for future long term care. Concludes that the increase in expenditure needed over the next 30 years is not so great as to be a cause for alarm, though some reinvestment may be needed in the short term. Suggests that affordability is a question of political choice, rather than economic imperatives. Reviews the values underpinning long term care and proposes a broad based strategic approach. Looks at the issues from the point of view of disabled people as well as older people. Concludes with 2 chapters comparing the situation in the United States and in Germany.
Partners in policymaking
- Author:
- NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TEAM
- Publisher:
- National Development Team
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 34p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Partners in Policy Making is a leadership training programme for disabled adults and parents of disabled children up to school leaving age. Aims to invest in users of services who will have the competence and confidence to work with policy makers at national and local level. This booklet describes the course content, and how it was run with a group of people from the North West of England.
The challenge of power: conference on the empowerment of disabled people; 15th September 1995
- Author:
- ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF SOCIAL WORK
- Publisher:
- Association of Directors of Social Work
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 44p.,list of orgs.
- Place of publication:
- Hamilton
Papers from a conference designed to provide a forum for consideration and discussion on the theme of empowerment. A list of 35 action points were identified by those attending. Includes papers on: the principles of empowerment; empowerment in policy and planning; empowerment in assessment and care management; and empowering disabled people in service provision.
Volunteering by people with disabilities: a route to opportunity
- Author:
- NIYAZI Filiz
- Publisher:
- National Centre for Volunteering
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 25p.
- Place of publication:
- London
One way in which disabled people can demonstrate their independence is by taking up voluntary work. The problem is, however, that the premises are not always physically accessible. Their advertising does not always make it clear that disabled people are as welcome as anyone else. Despite their much-vaunted equal opportunities policies, they are not always prepared to foot the bill for the extra support disabled volunteers sometimes need (there are not always extra costs involved). And the kind of training they provide for their volunteers rarely takes account of disabled people in its design, content and delivery.
Critical social policy: a reader
- Editor:
- TAYLOR David
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 251p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Addresses key issues in social policy, representing a social relations of welfare perspective in the journal Critical Social Policy over the last 15 years. Highlights issues of gender, race, sexuality, disability and age as central to the analysis of welfare. These social relations are shown to underpin questions of need, empowerment and social citizenship. The contributors raise questions about universal and particular arguments for welfare and suggest ways in which welfare strategies may begin to overcome the traditional dichotomies between rights and needs. Argues that the social relations of welfare must be seen as mutually constituting and as the context within which strategies of inclusion and exclusion from welfare must be understood.