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Unequal balance
- Author:
- SUTTON Diana
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.6.92, 1992, p.9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Comments on the progress of the Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) Bill, and suggests that government wariness of civil rights legislation sits uneasily alongside its concept of a citizen's charter.
Another door closes
- Author:
- FRANCIS Joy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.8.92, 1992, p.7.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Following a recent government ruling, disabled people are finding it difficult to employ personal assistants. Looks at their struggle to maintain their rights.
Decade of delay
- Author:
- HEALY Pat
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 3.12.92, 1992, p.10.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Reports on Jack Ashley's fight for disability rights as the United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons draws to a close.
Opportunity knocks
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.6.92, 1992, p.23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how and why the USA leads the way in ensuring rights for disabled people.
'Community Care' - reinforcing the dependency of disabled people
- Author:
- SAPEY Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Applied Community Studies, 1(3), 1992, pp.21-29.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
By considering the ideological basis of a range of welfare policies from the Poor Law to the NHS and Community Care Act, identifies how those policies have helped to created dependency and in doing so, to oppress disabled people. The central argument is that the current community care policies share an ideology with the Poor Law and the National Assistance Act. As such it is unlikely to bring about a less oppressive model of welfare as far as disabled people are concerned. Some alternatives that have been proposed by disabled people are discussed, and considers the support received in recent years from some feminist social policy writers. Proposals for change at both structural and institutional levels are drawn from the experience of the USA. Questions whether such alternatives would be feasible in Britain, and more pertinently, questions the effect of implementing community care policies without a fundamental rethinking of their ideological bases.