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Disability, oppression and public policy
- Author:
- CUNNINGHAM Sue
- Publisher:
- Independent Living (Keighley) Ltd
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 92p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bradford
Small scale research study looking at the impct of the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 (MHOR) on disabled people. Issues addressed include: alternative approaches to the issue of good practice in manual handling; promoting disabled people's ideas of good practice in manual handling; reviewing disability oppression in the context of British society; the mechanism of professional power; the experience of disability oppression; evidence of institutional oppression of disabled people; and the argument for civil rights legislation to protect disabled people from oppressive experience.
Benefit cuts for people unable to work
- Author:
- SCOTT Judy
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 3(4), November 1999, pp.28-32.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill is passing through Parliament at the time of writing. Some minor amendments are anticipated before the Bill becomes law. This article attempts to summarise 9 of the 86 clauses in the Bill - those which are most relevant to people claiming benefits because of their incapacity to work and those who try to work when they can.
A comparative study of social policy transfer: the adoption of anti-discrimination policy in the United Kingdom and Australia
- Author:
- LIGHTFOOT Elizabeth
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy Journal, 1(4), 2002, pp.5-21.
- Publisher:
- Haworth Press
- Place of publication:
- Binghamton, New York
Both the United Kingdom and Australia engaged in social policy transfer of anti-discrimination policy for people with disabilities in the 1990s with the adoption of new legislation whose structure and approach originated in the United States a decade earlier. This paper focuses on the extent of the convergence of disability policies between each country and the USA, and the variables that affected social policy transfer in each nation. By using a comparative approach, this paper allows for a better understanding of the processes and constraints involved in transferring social policy across nations. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street Binghamton, NY 13904-1580)
A commission with teeth?
- Author:
- DALY Nikki
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 30.7.98, 1998, p.9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Examines the reaction to the recently published White Paper on a Disability Rights Commission.
The uncertain convergence of disability policies in Western Europe
- Author:
- HVINDEN Bjorn
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 37(6), December 2003, pp.609-624.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
In the last decades disability has emerged as a key area for European social policy. So far there have been few indications of a general trend towards greater similarity in the disability policies of member states. This paper argues that attempts to promote common approaches and patterns of effort between member states are more likely to succeed in “vacant” sub-areas of disability policy than in more “crowded” ones. Existing redistributive provisions within income maintenance, employment and independent living are examples of crowded sub-areas. By contrast, the emerging anti-discrimination legislation and other forms of market regulation recently introduced by the EU may point towards more vacant policy areas within member states.
The law, rights and disability
- Editor:
- COOPER Jeremy
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 317p.,bibliog.s
- Place of publication:
- London
Includes chapters on: working in partnership with disabled people; changing attitudes to the rights of people; improving the civil rights of people with disabilities through international law; improving the civil rights of people with disabilities through domestic law; the legal regulation of the powers and duties of local authorities with regard to disabled people; the Disability Discrimination Act 1995; disability, housing and homelessness; disability and mental health law; disabled children; and messages from disability research for law, policy and practice.
Disabled people and social policy: from exclusion to inclusion
- Authors:
- OLIVER Michael, BARNES Colin
- Publisher:
- Longman
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 187p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Harlow
Provides an introduction to key issues in disability and social policy which have emerged in the light of changing approaches towards disability over the last fifteen years. The concepts of exclusion and inclusion provide the central focus around which the book is organised. Examines the contradictions and dilemmas of state provided welfare; explores the definitions surrounding disability, the historical background to analysis and the development and implications of social policy for disabled people; analyses the social model of disability and the perceptions and attitudes surrounding the meaning of disability within contemporary society; explores the disabled people's movement and the focus on independent living; outlines policy options for empowering disabled people; and includes policy statements written by disabled people and their organisations, various international charters and documents emphasising the rights of disabled people and selected extracts from legislation and policy statements.
Disabled people and social justice
- Author:
- MASSIE Bert
- Publisher:
- Institute for Public Policy Research
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 34p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Paper examining the institutional and personal discrimination faced by disabled people and proposes solutions. Also considers the financial hardships which many disabled people experience and the way in which social services are often provided in a manner which deprives the disabled recipients of control and dignity. Suggests how provision could be improved within current resources.
Institutional discrimination against disabled people and the campaign for anti-discrimination legislation
- Author:
- BARNES Colin
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 34, Summer 1992, pp.5-22.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Defines and describes institutional discrimination, discusses the influence of social policy and disabled people's collective response in the form of politicisation and the campaign for anti-discriminatory legislation.
Sexualities: personal lives and social policy
- Editor:
- CARABINE Jean
- Publisher:
- Policy Press,|Open University
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 184p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This book explores the choices that people make about their sexuality and how these can transform their personal lives. It analyses how social policy informs and responds to such choices through an examination of normative assumptions about sexuality and its role in forming, regulating and constituting welfare subjects, discourses, theories, provisions and practices. The authors illustrate that sexuality is simultaneously central and marginal to the concerns of social policy.They place particular emphasis on social policy as a site of regulation that restricts and constrains our personal lives, but also highlight how social policy might be used as an instrument of positive change.These processes are explored through such issues as: the significance of gender relations and identities in normative constructions of heterosexual marriage, the nuclear family and parenthood; the regulatory effects of policy-making on young people’s sexual experiences and activity and their strategies of resistance; and the normative standards of sexuality and the extent to which these have marginalized and silenced the sexuality of disabled people.