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People into Employment: supporting people with disabilities and carers into work
- Author:
- ARKSEY Hilary
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 11(3), May 2003, pp.283-292.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Carers and people with disabilities are disadvantaged groups at risk of social exclusion. Work is an important route to inclusion, but carers and people with disabilities are under-represented in the workforce. Reports key findings from a new study that evaluated People into Employment (PIE), a pilot employment project in north-east England designed to support people with disabilities, carers and former carers in gaining mainstream work, aiming to identify what clients, partner agencies and employers perceived to be PIE's most important services, its strengths and areas where there was scope for further development. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected at the mid-point and at the end of the project through 2 questionnaire surveys and interviews with clients, the project development officer, partner agencies and employers. Drawing on the 'pathway model', the findings show that PIE's interventions included mobilising, matching, mediating and supporting activities. Key ingredients of success include: tailor-made job-search activities and training; adjusting the pace at which people move towards sustained employment; recognising and responding to the differing needs of people with disabilities, carers and former carers; confidence boosting; accompanying clients to job interviews; good job matching; and ongoing practical and emotional support for both clients and employers. Rudimentary calculations suggest that the cost per job to the project is less than the cost per job for large national projects. Overall, these findings illustrate how access to employment via flexible job-search services geared up to the local labour market can successfully promote social inclusion for carers and people with disabilities.
Disability, work, and welfare: challenging the social exclusion of disabled people
- Authors:
- BARNES Colin, MERCER Geof
- Journal article citation:
- Work Employment and Society, 19(3), September 2005, pp.527-545.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article engages with debates relating to social policy and disabled people’s exclusion from the British labour market. Drawing on recent developments from within the disabled people’s movement, in particular, the concept of independent living and the social model of disability, and the associated disability studies literature, a critical evaluation of orthodox sociological theories of work, unemployment, and under-employment in relation to disabled people’s exclusion from the workplace is provided. It is argued that analyses of work and disability have failed to address in sufficient depth or breadth the various social and environmental barriers that confront disabled people. It is suggested that a reconfiguration of the meaning of work for disabled people - drawing on and commensurate with disabled people’s perspectives as expressed by the philosophy of independent living - and a social model analysis of their oppression is needed and long overdue.
Disablement in the informational age
- Author:
- SAPEY Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(4), June 2000, pp.619-636.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper article employment data from the USA and UK on the process of informationalisation, in order to ascertain if it is having a particular impact on the construction of disablement. It finds that disabled people are more likely to be excluded from employment in the informational sector and that the current reforms of welfare may remove some of the safety net provision that have been part of the hegemony of care established under industrialisation. It concludes by suggesting that social exclusion, which removes the notion of deservingness, may replace disability as a social process in the twenty-first century.
Disability and disadvantage: selection, onset and duration effects
- Authors:
- JENKINS Stephen P., RIGG John A
- Publisher:
- London School of Economics. Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 28p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Summary statistics provide a potentially misleading picture of the relationship between disability and disadvantage. The reason is that economic disadvantage among currently-disabled individuals may arise from three potential sources: pre-existing disadvantage (a ‘selection’ effect), effects associated with the onset of disability, and the effects associated with remaining disabled post-onset. The authors' distinction between selection, onset and duration effects is derived from taking a longitudinal perspective to disability and disadvantage. This contrasts with previous analysis of the incomes and employment rates of disabled Britons which has mostly been based on cross-section surveys.
Disability, dependency and the New Deal for disabled people
- Author:
- ROULSTONE Alan
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(3), May 2000, pp.427-443.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The emergence of the 'New Deal' and its attendant claim to be part of a new political and social future based on the 'third way' seems to offer formerly excluded people new horizons for social inclusion. This article provides a critical exploration of the likely impact of the 'New Deal' for disabled people. The article contextualises the 'New Deal' in the wider ideology and rhetoric of 'Welfare at Work'. In doing so, it highlights similarities between 'New Deal', 'Welfare at Work' and the victim blaming ideas which characterised discussions of a growing 'social underclass' in the 1980's. In this way, its ideological underpinnings may simply reaffirm disabled people's economic and social dependency.
Enduring economic exclusion: disabled people, income and work
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Consecutive governments have implemented policies designed to promote employment opportunities for disabled people and direct more resources to those in greatest need. But what impact have these policies had over the last twenty years? Uses nationally representative surveys to examine the past and present position of disabled people of working age in the income distribution and the labour market. Presents the findings.
Social care for the disabled in the Republic of Croatia
- Author:
- ZOVKO Gojko
- Journal article citation:
- Revija Za Socijalnu Politiku Journal of Social Policy, 7(3-4), 2000, pp.273-287.
- Publisher:
- University of Zagreb
Looks at the position of disabled people in Croatia and strategies to prevent social exclusion.
Excluding attitudes: disabled people's experience of social exclusion
- Authors:
- KNIGHT John, BRENT Martine
- Publisher:
- Leonard Cheshire Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 32p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains chapters on: society's view of disabled people; disabled people and the workplace; attitudes that bar the way to social life; the denial of disabled people's rights; and conclusions and recommendations.
An inclusive future: disability, social change and opportunities for greater inclusion by 2010
- Authors:
- CHRISTIE Ian, MENSAH-COKER Gavin
- Publisher:
- DEMOS
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 110p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Changes in technology, society and the economy are creating new scope for progress in removing the barriers to equal opportunities for disabled people. This report explores how these changes can be exploited in the workplace, in education, and in the design of the built environment. Argues that the modernisation of Britain's businesses and public infrastructure over the next ten to fifteen years could create an unprecedented opportunity for disabled people and disability organisations.
DART bared
- Author:
- MATRIX Dot
- Journal article citation:
- Scope, November 1997, pp.15-17.
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action
Reports on the DART initiative currently operating in Northern Ireland which seeks to address the discrimination and social exclusion faced by people with disabilities.