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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.
Something to do: the development of peer support groups for young black disabled people
- Authors:
- BIGNALL Tracey, PAGARANI Deepa, BUTT Jabeer
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 24p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
For young disabled people who are of Asian, Caribbean and African origin, peer support groups provide a forum for emotional and practical support, enabling them to discuss issues around race, ethnicity and religion and to share experiences with others from the same background. Using young people's own words this report explores the development of these informal support groups. Topics include: the purpose of peer support groups; how the groups have formed; what works within the groups and why; what affects the growth and maintenance of such groups; examples of processes such as decision making and planning.
South Asian disabled young people and their families
- Authors:
- HUSSAIN Ysmin, ATKIN Karl, AHMAD Waqar
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 33p,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Focusing on young disabled Asian people and their families, this report presents evidence of how they experience disability, and how they are treated in the context of family relationships. The report questions the relevance of the social model of disability to the experience of young disabled Asian people, and addresses weaknesses un current policy and practice. Contents include: young people's views on identity, religion and culture; views on marriage and the family; disabling barriers and racism at work and home; using the services; implications for policy and research.
Genes spell danger: mental health service users/survivors, bioethics and control
- Authors:
- BERESFORD Peter, WILSON Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 17(5), August 2002, pp.541-553.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article argues for debates about bioethics and disabled people to address and include the perspectives of psychiatric system survivors, and their concerns about psychiatry and bioethics. While genetic approaches to physical and sensory impairment can be seen to be concerned with physical and bodily conformity, genetic approaches to madness and mental distress that are gaining increasing power and official legitimacy, are also closely associated with regulating diversity, divergence and dissent in thinking and perceptions.
From interface to integration: a strategy for modernising occupational therapy services in local health and social care communities; a consultation
- Author:
- COLLEGE OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS
- Publisher:
- College of Occupational Therapists
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 37p.bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Proposes an approach to service delivery which offers a seamless approach for clients and organisations. The vision is to achieve joint working of an integrated range of occupational therapy services that will bring an end to confusion and duplication for people who need to use them. The strategy focuses on the organisation of statutory service delivery. This means getting occupational therapists with the right knowledge and skills at the right place and time. The proposal is for a community based general practitioner model to ensure an integrated approach that enables services to be developed as a continuum that is responsive to the needs of service users, their carers and families.
Users as citizens: collective action and the local governance of welfare
- Author:
- BARNES Marian
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 33(1), March 1999, pp.73-90.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Drawing on theories of new social movements and of citizenship, this article considers the developing place of user organisations within systems of local governance. It looks at the way in which groups have sought to assert the legitimacy both of experimental knowledge and of their position as citizens in the face of official responses which have constructed them as self-interested pressure groups. It draws on empirical research investigating local groups of disabled people and of mental health service users conducted in the first part of the 1990s. The article considers likely future roles for groups comprising of people often excluded from community.