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A definition of disability and its development in the Croatian pension insurance scheme
- Author:
- RISMONDO Mihovil
- Journal article citation:
- Revija Za Socijalnu Politiku Journal of Social Policy, 7(3-4), 2000, pp.289-309.
- Publisher:
- University of Zagreb
The author analyses the definitions of disability which have been used in the Croatian pension system since the First World War.
Room to move forward
- Author:
- McCURRY Patrick
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 12.11.98, 1998, p.10.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on how although new proposals on welfare reform have been widely welcomed, disability campaigners argue that the package isn't as benevolent as it may first appear.
Regional welfare system developments in Russia: community social services
- Author:
- THOMSON Kate
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 36(2), April 2002, pp.105-122.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Micro-level studies of welfare service developments are largely absent from the literature on Russian social policy issues, which tends to concentrates on macro-level social security arrangements. This paper highlights the emergence of community-based social services in the post-1991 era, examining their development in two provincial Russian cities, based on an empirical study carried out in 1998. The paper adds to a growing literature which seeks to understand "welfare systems" from the perspective of welfare services by looking at their use by, and relevance for, disabled children regarded as having learning difficulties, and their families. The empirical data indicate the shape of "new" services in the field sites, the means by which such institutions were maintained and their integration into the welfare sphere as a whole. Their development and maintenance at the local level is explained in part by socio-economic, political and administrative factors in these regions. By highlighting the various factors that help to maintain welfare provision and drive change at the local level, the case studies indicate the possible shape of future welfare developments in Russia as a whole.
Invalids and society
- Author:
- ZOVKO Gojko
- Journal article citation:
- Revija Za Socijalnu Politiku Journal of Social Policy, 6(2), 1999,
- Publisher:
- University of Zagreb
This article deals with the social issue of invalids in Croatia. Possible directions for activities are given which may be aimed at social policy and social welfare directed towards creating a society of pluralistic democracy and human rights and a society for all its members, in which social justice will reign and there will be social benefits for all.
Breeding poverty?
- Author:
- INMAN Kendra
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 29.10.98, 1998, p.10.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The gap between rich and poor has been steadily growing over the last decade with three in ten children now living in the poorest families. Asks whether Labour can reverse these trends.
Embodying the social: constructions of difference
- Editor:
- SARAGA Esther
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 223p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Explores the problem of why we treat forms of social differences as if they were the consequences of biology. Treats difference as being produced by processes of social construction and addresses general questions about how to analyse these processes in relation to social differences, social problems, and social welfare. Also explores these in relation to patterns of social differentiation, using case studies of racialised differences, sexuality, and disability.
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.
Forcing the issue
- Author:
- BENNETT Fran
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 31.7.97, 1997, pp.6-7.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how meaningful the government's welfare reform strategy is for those who are socially excluded, through old age, sickness, disability or their responsibilities as carers. The author considers the alternatives.
Welfare to work in practice: social security and participation in economic and social life
- Editors:
- SAUNDERS Peter, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 261p.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
This book brings together some of the leading experts to discuss the rationale for welfare to work policies, their limitations and problems encountered in practice. Contributors address topics ranging from the linkages between social security and the labour market to how the welfare to work agenda is responding to the needs of special groups such as lone parents, the long-term unemployed and those with a disability. The book puts the arguments and ideas that underlie the new welfare reform agenda under the microscope and explains how it is being implemented in an international context. Several new data sets are analyzed in a collection that covers developments in Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Norway, the UK and the US, as well as several comparative studies. In doing so, this volume helps to bridge the gap between research and policy and demonstrates how policy can respond to the challenges it faces.
We have choices: globalisation and welfare user movements
- Authors:
- BERESFORD Peter, HOLDEN Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(7), December 2000, pp.973-989.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article connects and juxtaposes two important contemporary discourses in social policy: those of globalisation and of the 'welfare users' movements, particularly the movements of disabled people. It questions the widespread use of the globalisation process as a rationale for accepting that social policies should be subordinated to narrow economic constraints. It discusses the implications of social policies associated with globalisation for disabled people and other welfare service users, and their response to these. In particular the movements' emphasis on asserting choice in policy and their ability to influence the policy process is noted. The article concludes that there is much to be gained from a closer dialogue between the users' movements and social policy as a discipline, although there still seems to be some resistance to this from the latter.