Search results for ‘Subject term:"physical disabilities"’ Sort:
Results 1 - 10 of 11
Postmodernism, feminism and disability
- Author:
- FAWCETT B.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 5(4), October 1996, pp.259-267.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
Disability issues are achieving increasing prominence in Great Britain and the rest of Europe. However, many of the main arguments, particularly those emphasising social barriers models of disability, are located within structuralist frameworks. This can be regarded as problematic, as poststructural and postmodern orientations challenge the basic tenets of such formulations. This article explores the making of links between modern and structural and postmodern and poststructural perspectives using a gendered analysis drawn from feminism. It then examines the applicability of the resultant analysis for disability issues, social work and research. In conclusion, it is suggested that the making of such links can enable us to accept and effectively utilise the difference and diversity, contradiction, change and fluidity without losing sight of enduring social divisions and associated oppressive responses.
Social justice and disabled people: principles and challenges
- Authors:
- GOODLAD Robina, RIDDELL Sheila
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Society, 4(1), January 2005, pp.45-54.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Social justice is a policy aim of the UK Labour government. This paper considers the applicability of the concept to disability, seeking to establish principles for conceptualising social justice and disability and considering the nature of the challenges for public policy and society posed by this conceptualisation. The paper considers how disability is implicated in two types of claims about the source of social injustice: those concerned with socially constructed differences between people; and those arising from material inequalities. Appropriate values underpinning alternative conceptions of social justice are discussed and tensions in policymaking considered.
The economic problems of disabled people
- Authors:
- BERTHOUD Richard, LAKEY Jane, McKAY Stephen
- Publisher:
- Policy Studies Institute
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 146p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report analysing the OPCS survey of disabled adults. Looks at the employment status of disabled people, the additional expenses of being disabled and the large variety of income maintenance benefits available. Also discusses major changes in government policies for disabled people since 1985 and the extent to which these have managed to address the economic problems identified.
Health and employment: towards a New Deal
- Authors:
- EASTERLOW Donna, SMITH Susan J.
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 31(4), October 2003, pp.511-533.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This article draws on lay perspectives to question some assumptions underpinning the government's New Deal for people with long-term illness or disability in Britain. Tracing out the interaction between health and employment trajectories, interviewees challenge the idea that over-generous benefits pave the route to non-employment. They also question the emphasis on matching skills to jobs as a pathway back to work. People experiencing ill-health do not lack the incentive to work and they are likely to be forced, rather than lured, into pensions and onto benefits. The New Deal aims to enhance labour supply, but the problems people experience are more about the organisation of work and the limited demand for their skills.
Whose voices? Representing the claims of older disabled people under New Labour
- Author:
- PRIESTLEY Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 30(3), July 2002, pp.361-372.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This article highlights some significant similarities and differences in the social claims made by groups representing older people and disabled people in policy debates under New Labour. Using recent policy examples, the analysis focuses on the claims being made by older and disabled people and the discourses, representations and strategies used to make them. The article suggests that there are considerable areas of common ground on which political alliances and common voice could be built, but there is also evidence of a tactical or discursive distancing between the two groups. These difficulties are interpreted with reference to the centrality of independence and paid employment within policy debates under New Labour.
Research and 'disability': accounts, biographies and policies
- Authors:
- FAWCETT Barbara, HEARN Jeff
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 19(2), 2001, pp.27-44.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
This article reviews and re-evaluates a qualitative research project carried out in England in the late 1990s. The project was informed from its inception by the social model of disability, and explores how 'disability' is conceptualised within the accounts of participants defined by others as disabled. It also examines participants' views of community care services. As part of this discussion, notions of collaborative and emancipatory research are appraised. The implications of the findings for policy and practice in the field of social work and social care are discussed.
On the record
- Author:
- PEARCE Jonathan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.5.01, 2001, pp.20-22.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Describes how the last four years have seen the social care landscape change drastically under a plethora of New Labour new initiatives and analyses the success of the government's social policy programme.
The role of access groups in facilitating accessible environments for disabled people
- Author:
- IMRIE Rob
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 14(4), July 1999, pp.463-482.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article considers the contrasting ways in which disabled people seek to overturn socio-attitudinal, political and physical barriers to their mobility and access requirements in the built environment. It documents how disabled people are attempting to influence the form and content of local authority access practices and policies, through the context and contours of access groups. Concludes by discussing how some of the wider structural and agency-level constraints on disabled people's political and policy interventions in access issues might be removed.
The development of quasi-vouchers in Australia's community services
- Author:
- LYONS Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 23(2), April 1995, pp.127-139.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Traces the development within Australia's community services of a method of government support for some of these services which is best described as a quasi-voucher. The essential difference between quasi-vouchers and more conventional methods of support such as grants and contracts is the support such as focused on the consumer of services, not the provider. After a discussion of vouchers as a particular set of tools for government action, the development of such tools is described in four programmes: child care, nursing home care, disability services and home care.
In an beyond New Labour: towards a new political ethics of care
- Author:
- WILLIAMS Fiona
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 21(4), November 2001, pp.467-493.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Argues for a political ethics of care to balance New Labour's current preoccupation with the ethics of paid work. However, care as a practice invokes different experiences, meanings, contexts and multiple relations of power. The article traces the development of the concept of care taking up, in particular, challenges and differences raised by disability, race and migration. These offer important insights for a new political ethics of care whose key dimensions are spelled out in the final part of the article.