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Disabled children miss out on basic items as poverty trap snares parents
- Author:
- GILLEN Sally
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 29.08.02, 2002, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Parents of disabled children are struggling to pay for basic items such as bedding, according to a report published by children's charity Barnardo's.
Participation: north and south; new ideas in participatory development from India and the UK
- Authors:
- MERRIFIELD Juliet, et al
- Publisher:
- Elfrida Press
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 52p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
These lectures review participatory development and joint worrking in social services, education and other provisions in developed and developing countries. Contents include: lessons from anti-oppressive movements; learning and cotizenship; overcoming disability; and participatory processes in the North, lessons from the South.
'Young carers' and disabled parents: time for a change of direction?
- Author:
- NEWMAN Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 17(6), October 2002, pp.613-625.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
'Young carers' suffer, it is suggested, from a degradation in mental and physical health, have damaged educational careers, restricted social networks, and will suffer long-term consequences in adult life as a result of their childhood caring roles. This article argues that limited empirical evidence exists for these claims and that, where legitimate concerns arise, they are frequently related to poverty, social exclusion, and unsupported or inadequate parenting, and have no direct relationship to illness or impairment. While dedicated services to young carers have made a valuable contribution in highlighting an important social issue, a radical review of their place in the overall structure of support services for families affected by illness or disability is long overdue.
Inclusive citizenship: social equality for disabled people
- Authors:
- HEAVEN Christine, CHRISTIE Ian
- Publisher:
- Leonard Cheshire Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 27p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report examines disabled people's experience of social exclusion. The report argues that the causes of disabled people's poverty and social exclusion are not the same as the general population's. Disabled people also face higher risks of poverty and social exclusion than the general population.
Still missing out? the case studies: ending poverty and social exclusion; messages to government from families with disabled children
- Author:
- SHARMA Neera
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 51p.
- Place of publication:
- Ilford
Despite changes to disability benefits and other services many of Britain's 360,000 disabled children and young people still live in poverty and are socially excluded from their communities. This report details interviews with 17 families with disabled children to find out more about the issues facing them and what impact if any government policies have had on their lives.
Rethinking youth transitions: policy transfer and new exclusions in New Labour's New Deal
- Author:
- FERGUSSON Ross
- Journal article citation:
- Policy Studies, 23(3/4), September 2002, pp.173-190.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The central argument of this paper is that the policies developed by New Labour to tackle social exclusion amongst young people in particular are aligned with US workfare policies. In being so aligned they disclose the neo-liberal 'drivers' of reform which mark New Labour's understanding of social exclusion as a distinct rupture with the European social exclusion tradition. Through reviews of the effects of welfare-to-work programmes, and of independent evaluations of the New Deal for Young People (NDYP), the paper suggests that its impact upon exclusion, even in its narrower senses, is limited. It goes on to query some fundamental assumptions about how young people are understood to make 'transitions' into financial independence as employees, looking both at persistent inequalities, notably of race, class and disability, and at new forms of inequality that depend, in much more complex ways, on how young people are able (or unable) to use their powers as students, part-time workers and members of social groups, to adapt to changing and highly locally variable market conditions. These trends, it is argued, may explain take-up and outcome patterns in NDYP. The paper concludes that there is a serious question as to whether it can ever 'lift' the most marginalized groups out of exclusion.
Attitudes towards disabled staff and the effect of the National Minimum wage: a Delphi survey of employers and disability employment advisors
- Authors:
- SCHNEIDER Justine, DUTTON Jillian
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 17(3), May 2002, pp.283-306.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Reports on a Delphi study on a drawing on the expertise of a national sample of 100 employers of disabled people, and a similar number of Disability Employment Advisors (DEAs). It presents their existing attitudes towards disabled employees before analysing the effect of the NMW on these views. Differences between employers and DEAs were found in relation to the perceived costs and obstacles to employers of taking or retaining disabled staff, the problems presented by specific disabilities and the motivation shown by disabled staff. There was general agreement that the NMW has benefited disabled people by making low paid jobs better paid. Some disabled employees appear to have been adversely affected by the interaction of the interaction of the NMW with the Supported Placement Scheme (SPS, now Workstep) and the benefits system. Concludes that understanding employers' perspectives may facilitate the promotion of work opportunities for disabled people.
The state of children's rights in 2002
- Author:
- WILLOW Carolyne
- Journal article citation:
- Childright, 187, June 2002, pp.7-8.
- Publisher:
- Children's Legal Centre
Summarises the key points raised in a report coordinated by the Children's Rights Alliance for England, which reports on the Government's implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of a Child. Highlights some of the major issues requiring action.