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Children's experiences of disability: a positive outlook
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive Education Department
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 16p.
Direct payments
- Author:
- HOLMSTROM Radhika
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Guide, 12, April 2002, pp.9-10.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Direct payments promised to lead empowered disabled service users into the promised land of self-determination. However, far fewer people have taken up the scheme than expected. Looks at what could have gone wrong, and how it might be put right.
Forging a new identity
- Author:
- VERNON Maxine
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.2.02, 2002, p.38.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on how the winner of the Community Care awards 2001 disability category is encouraging disabled people to acquire new skills and to develop their self-respect where needed.
The imbalance of power
- Author:
- ASPIS Simone
- Journal article citation:
- Voluntary Voice, 169, November 2002, p.14.
- Publisher:
- London Voluntary Service Council
Describes research into the involvement of disabled women in local regeneration work in London.
Good practice guidance - consultation with equalities groups: a summary
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive. Equality Unit
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Good practice guidance: consultation with equalities groups
- Author:
- REID-HOWIE ASSOCIATES
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 38p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Best value: using the framework to meet the needs of the consumer
- Author:
- BENNETT Shaun
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 5(1), February 2002, pp.4-6.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The Supporting People programme will bring about significant changes to the way in which support services are funded and delivered. The Best Value framework provides a key process for achieving the objectives of the Supporting People programme and can underpin the role of service users. A Best Value good practice guide is due to be published shortly by the Housing Corporation, drawing lessons from a number of pilot studies.
Towards personal independence
- Author:
- COWLEY Dawn
- Journal article citation:
- Voluntary Voice, 161, February 2002, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- London Voluntary Service Council
Reports on the Independent Activities Project (IAP) a Hounslow-based pilot scheme to empower adults with a physical and/or sensory disability to take control of their lives and play an active part in the local community.
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.