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A new contract for welfare: principles into practice; presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Social Security by Command of Her Majesty, October 1998
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Social Security
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Sets out the principles behind the government's reform of the social security system and looks at how to put these into practice. Focuses in particular on getting people back into work, and benefits for disabled people.
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.
Dependency in early life
- Author:
- MOSS Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 1(1), 1983, pp.8-11.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Research has shown that dependency is not an immutable fixed quality of an individual, but can be varied in response to external factors. Dependency has undesirable consequences not only for the dependent person, but also for those whose caring role carries its own, socially derived, forms of dependency; dependency, therefore, becomes inextricably linked with the role of women in society. A more informed discussion is called for to explore the implications of setting, as a policy goal, the maximisation of the independence of dependent groups. Key practical issues in this context are mobility, income and housing. There is also the need for a radical redefinition of the work-family relationship.
Working together for change
- Author:
- McKEEVER Brendan
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 68(9), September 2005, pp.418-420.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Engaging those who provide services with those who actually receive services has often been problematic. This opinion piece is based on a housing campaign - the Homes Fit For Children Campaign - and shows how an issue can be raised to a political level. It is an illustration of good practice, demonstrating how occupational therapists, working together with parents were able to have a pivotal role in change resulting in the abolition of the means test for the Disabled Facilities Grant in Northern Ireland.
Issues in access for disabled people: the case of the Leeds Transport Strategy
- Authors:
- BARRETT E., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Policy Studies, 24(4), 2003, pp.227-242.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
While the transport problems of disabled people figure prominently in some transport strategies, the reality of what disabled people experience can be far removed from what most strategies aim to achieve. The main reason for this mismatch is an inappropriate, even erroneous, conceptualisation of disability. This is compounded by an inadequate articulation of the needs of disabled people and their lack of meaningful involvement in the development of transport strategy. This article looks the Leeds Transport Strategy (as currently expressed within the West Yorkshire Local Transport Plan). Analyses the treatment of disabled access issues in the strategy and relates these issues to the results of empirical research. The experiences of a wide range of disabled respondents are considered in parallel with the attitudes and actions of transport providers and policy makers. Concludes that the gap between intentions of policy makers and the real needs of disabled transport users, can be reduced by the involvement of disabled people in the decision-making process.
It doesn't happen to disabled children: child protection and disabled children; repoprt of the National Working Group on Child Protection and Disability
- Author:
- NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN
- Publisher:
- National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 84p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
All the evidence about disabled children’s experiences suggests that they are more vulnerable to abuse than non-disabled children. For the last twenty years or so, a number of individuals and organisations have struggled to bring this to the attention of government, local authorities and the major children’s organisations. The National Working Group on Child Protection and Disability believes that comprehensive action is required in order to protect disabled children from abuse. The first two recommendations reflect this, calling as they do for a review of the current child protection system and the development of a national strategy for the safeguarding of disabled children. However, within these two main recommendations, smaller steps are identified that would help promote the safeguarding of disabled children even if they were implemented without a major review or national strategy.
Transforming disability into ability: policies to promote work and income security for disabled people
- Author:
- ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT
- Publisher:
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 219p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Paris
The OECD’s report makes a major contribution to the cross-national policy debate on promoting employment among people with disabilities. The report provides a comprehensive overview of data on receipt of income maintenance disability benefits, including analyses of inflow and outflow rates and the incidence of recipiency by age and gender. These data are accompanied by concise and insightful explanations of the great variety of institutional and administrative factors that can influence income maintenance disability benefit receipt, including availability of other benefits, linkages between sickness and disability benefits, partial awards, rules on severity of disablement and the impact of contribution requirements and means tests. The report also contains a number of policy recommendations, particularly about measures which might be adopted to promote employment among people receiving disability income maintenance benefits The report defines what it sees as a consensus around the desirability of promoting paid employment among people with disabilities, invoking developments in OECD countries as well as supra-national agreements in support of this position.
Stop pensioner poverty now: older people - ignored and forgotten
- Author:
- HELP THE AGED
- Publisher:
- Help the Aged
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 10p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Poverty comes in many different shapes and sizes. but by the government's own admission, and in spite of its claims of commitment to social justice, today's pensioners are very often poor not only in terms of the income they receive, and the quality of their neighbourhoods but also the opportunities available to them to take a full part in society. This document calls upon the government to match its publicly stated commitment to ending child poverty with similar energy on behalf of older people. Fundamental to this is the establishment of a decent universal basic state pension that will deliver basic needs. And there are also more focused reforms and initiatives that we believe will address some of the worst areas of pensioner poverty, that are urgently needed now. These are: bridging the huge gulf between entitlement and claim rates of pensioner benefits; radical improvement in the addition at age 80 to the weekly state pension, which currently stands at a derisory extra 25p: making work pay for poorest pensioners with a decisive increase in the earnings disregard, to £75 a week: ending, the indefensible anomaly whereby disability before age 65 brings a mobility benefit currently denied to those over the age of 65: preventing the scandal of over 20,000 winter deaths each year of older people that happen because we cannot manage the effects of winter cold: helping pensioners to take a fuller part in their neighbourhoods through initiatives such as improved street lighting and consistent free travel opportunities.
From leisure and disability to disability leisure: developing data, definitions and discourses
- Authors:
- CLARE Linda, COX Sylvia
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(7), December 2003, pp.935-955.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Although both disability studies and leisure studies have grown to become influential subject fields in their own right, there has been little discursive exchange between the two fields. This article seeks to address these equally significant gaps in disability research within leisure studies and leisure research within disability studies. Empirical data examining the role of leisure in the lives of a group of young people with cerebral palsy are introduced to contextualise definitions and discourses of leisure and disability. The article demonstrates that, for many young disabled people, the role of leisure in tackling social exclusion remains within the realms of policy rhetoric, rather than everyday reality. The dissonance between these agendas and actualities is reviewed in relation to definitions and discourses of disability and leisure evident in wider social policies, and in relation to definitions, discourses and models of disability that remain dominant within leisure provision.