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More than a job: securing satisfying careers for people with disabilities
- Editors:
- WEHMAN Paul, KREGEL John
- Publisher:
- Paul H. Brookes
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 374p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Baltimore, MD
User led book providing professionals with step by step strategies for helping disabled people and people with learning difficulties to find meaningful employment. Emphasises the importance of long term planning and individual control over assessment and training.
Going for growth
- Author:
- ATROBUS Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 6.1.95, 1995, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The Enterprise Training Project, based in Northampton is a project for people with physical disabilities which has embarked on a innovative scheme for involving users in developing services. The focus of the project was to address employment opportunities through personal growth, building and maintaining skills, assertion, real work experience and training. Describes how this was achieved.
The heart of the matter
- Author:
- PARTON Dan
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, 15(3), May/June 2015, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The Ridgeway, a supported living service for four young people with a range of physical and learning disabilities, was rated 'outstanding by the Care Quality Commission under the CQC's new inspection system. The article looks some of the factors that contribute to the success of the service which aims to put the people it supports at the heart of everything it does: supporting its residents to find employment; planning goals with residents and their families; matching staff and residents who have similar interests; involving residents in the induction of new staff. (Edited publisher abstract)
Work after stroke: focusing on barriers and enablers
- Authors:
- LOCK Sarah, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 20(1), January 2005, pp.33-47.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Previous research on work after stroke has used quantitative methods and a medical model approach to identify factors that influence return to work. This study uses an inclusive, qualitative methodology (focus groups) to begin to explore stroke survivors' own perspectives about what helps and hinders paid or voluntary work after stroke. The research was conducted in partnership with Different Strokes, a British organisation of stroke survivors. Five focus group discussions were held with 37 stroke survivors and 12 of their supporters. Data was analysed using an adapted Framework approach to identify themes within and across individuals and groups. Factors representing barriers to or enablers of work were identified in four key themes: rehabilitation process, employer agency, social structural and personal. The study found evidence of social oppression via infrastructure, institutional structures and practices, and some individuals' attitudes. Alongside this, some supportive individuals, practices and strategies were identified.
Celebrating diversity: Scope annual review 2002/03
- Author:
- SCOPE
- Publisher:
- SCOPE
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 13p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Annual report. Scope’s membership, consisting of disabled people, their families, carers and representatives of over 250 affiliated groups, elect members of Executive Council, which also has co-opted trustees.The Council is supported by 13 Partnership Committees around England and Wales, the majority of which are chaired by local disabled people. The Committees, supported by Community Teams, contribute to the outcomes of the organisation's national work and also establish their own plans to support over 1,000 groups and organisations that address needs identified by disabled people locally. Scope's schools and college are supported by seven governing bodies, made up of parents, community representatives and staff. At least 3.4% of Scope staff state they are disabled.
Disability, participation and welfare to work in Staffordshire
- Author:
- WOOD Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Integrated Care, 11(2), April 2003, pp.43-48.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Describes Staffordshire's Welfare to Work Joint Investment Plan, an inter-agency approach to improving job opportunities for disabled people and their carers. A partnership with Staffordshire University, through the Consumers as Researchers course, has also enabled disabled people to acquire research skills and survey the views of other disabled people on barriers to employment and strategies to overcome them.
'It won't change the world but it turned my life around': participants' views on the personal advisor scheme in the New Deal for disabled people
- Author:
- HEENAN Deidre
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 17(4), June 2002, pp.383-401.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article is a response to the largely negative commentary on the New Deal for Disabled People. It draws on a recent qualitative study of disabled people who have re-entered the labour force with the assistance of the Personal Advisor Scheme. Whilst it is acknowledged that the New Deal has its limitations and shortcomings, it is argued that the positive aspects of the scheme deserve to be highlighted. Also, it is suggested that the importance of enabling individuals who have experienced the scheme to voice their opinions and perceptions cannot be understated. By listening to the views and attitudes of those who have first hand experience of the scheme, policies and practices can be developed and redefined in ways, which incorporate the needs and views of the users.
Doing disability research
- Editors:
- BARNES Colin, MERCER Geof
- Publisher:
- Disability Press
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 236p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
Looks at key issues and problems in translating disability theory into research. Questions addressed include: breaking the researcher-researched hierarchy; involving disabled people; ownership and control; disability research funding; measuring disability barriers; research and the survivors' movement; narrative approaches; researching sexuality, multiple oppression, abuse and violence; and researching disability in non-European contexts.
Diversity in disability: exploring the interactions between disability, ethnicity, age, gender and sexuaity
- Authors:
- MOLLOY Donna, KNIGHT Tim, WOODFIELD Kandy
- Publisher:
- Corporate Document Services; Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 212p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
This report explores diversity in disability. It examines the complex relationships between disability and other aspects of identity, chiefly: ethnicity, gender, age and sexuality. Based on qualitative research with disabled people itprovides evidence about the interaction of different characteristics on disabled peoples’ everyday lives and perceptions of self-identity. It explores the salience of concepts such as ‘compounded’ or ‘multiple’ disadvantage to the everyday lives of disabled people from diverse social groups and discusses if, how and why different aspects of diversity affect people’s everyday experiences.
Developing social firms in the UK: a contribution to identifying good practice
- Authors:
- SECKER Jenny, DASS Sandya, GROVE Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(5), August 2003, pp.659-674.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Social firms and related enterprises are developing rapidly in the UK as a means of providing employment for disabled people. This study examined the kind of enterprise that will best meet the aspirations of disabled people. A telephone survey identified the range of enterprises describing themselves as social firms, and examined their development and operation. Alongside the survey, focus groups with disabled people and interviews with carers explored perspectives on the values that should underpin social firms. The results suggest that indicators of good practice include: user/worker participation in the firm's development and operation; the availability of expert advice to enable informed choice about payment, with payment at the minimum wage rates or higher for those who choose this; opportunities for workers to develop to their full potential; a workforce comprising disabled and non-disabled workers; the involvement of carers and local socio-economic agencies in developing the social firm.