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Community care: a question of rights
- Editors:
- HARDING Tessa, ROBINSON Janice
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Social Work/King's Fund
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Short paper from a debate on the rights of disabled people to community care services.
Developing service user involvement in the South Korean disability services: lessons from the experience of community care policy and practice in UK
- Authors:
- KIM Deug Yong, ROSS Liz
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 16(2), March 2008, pp.188-196.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This paper considers the scope for the integration of service user involvement within services for people with disabilities in South Korea at a time of rapid development in social policy and practice. Using the UK experience of introducing community care and a mixed economy of service provision over the last 14 years, this paper considers the barriers to service user involvement inherent in the South Korean context and concludes that in a society where there is a shortage of services and a provider-orientated delivery system where most services are delivered by voluntary organisations, more public services are needed and a ‘democratic’ rather than a consumerist approach to user involvement is required. Some elements of the UK system could inform the development of a systematic approach to user involvement in South Korea, notably the right to assessment within a care management structure, the setting of quality care standards and inspection processes and a complaints procedure.
Is the independent living movement about liberation or oppression?
- Author:
- STEVENS Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 14(4), April 2001, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Argues that it is time the independent living movement stopped thinking about disabled people in stereotypes and focused on their opportunities for real living.
Out of services: a survey of local service provision for elderly and disabled people in England
- Authors:
- FRAZER Rosemary, GLICK Georgia
- Publisher:
- Needs Must
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 32p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Needs Must is a coalition of more than thirty organisations campaigning to restore people's rights to community care. This research report presents findings from a study of changes to the services people receive since the Gloucestershire judgement in March 1997.
People, plans and possibilities: exploring person-centred planning
- Author:
- BARCLAY Julie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 12(2), October 1998, pp.9-10.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Reviews a recently published book on person-centred planning in which the authors argue that people with disabilities still have no power to make decisions about major changes in their lives.
Access to assessment: the perspectives of practitioners, disabled people and carers
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Recent community care legislation means that disabled people must undergo an eligibility test in order to access an assessment of their needs. A study exploring access to the assessment procedures used by two local authority social services departments. The study - based on observations of social workers' assessment practice and interviews with disabled people and carers.
Where to now?
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 26.9.96, 1996, p.25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author argues that community care assessments are a crucial element in working towards a society where disabled people can participate and have full human rights.
A victim of its own success
- Author:
- SUTTON Diana
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.3.93, 1993, p.11.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Disabled people are angry and disappointed about the demise of the Independent Living Fund. Although Nicholas Scott, Minister for Disabled People recognises the success of the ILF he maintains that it was introduced as an interim measure and says that after 1st April local authorities will have to produce community care packages for elderly disabled people. Reports on the debate about ILF's future.
'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.
A care home for life?
- Author:
- CRAGG Steve
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.2.99, 1999, p.26.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Considers whether clients have any right to be part of the consultation process when local authorities close care homes, and looks at what impact European law has on the rights of people in care homes.