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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.
Adults only: disability, social policy and the life course
- Author:
- PRIESTLEY Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 29(3), July 2000, pp.421-439.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
This article examines the relationship between disability, generation and social policy. The moral and legislative framework for the post-war welfare settlement was grounded in a long-standing cultural construction of 'normal' life course progression. Disability and age (along with gender) were the key components in this construction, defining broad categories of welfare dependency and labour force exemption. The article suggests that, as policy-makers pursue their millennial settlement with mothers, children and older people, they also may be forced to reconstruct the relationship between disabled people and the welfare state.
Disability politics and community care
- Author:
- PRIESTLEY Mark
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 256p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Addresses the relationship between the politics of disability and community care policies. Argues that although the ideas behind social policy and practice have started to reflect values such as participation, integration and equality, the current policy and its implementation often undermine those goals. Aims to encourage health and social welfare professionals and policy makers to start working with disabled people themselves. Argues that involving disabled people in the design and production of their own welfare will break down the disabling boundary between service provider and user and will result in the reality of integrated living. Presents practical suggestions for change.