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Disability politics: understanding our past, changing our future
- Authors:
- CAMPBELL Jane, OLIVER Mike
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 238p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Written by disabled people with the aim of enabling other people with disabilities to understand their past and change their future. Examines the changes in the profile of disabled people throughout Britain over the last 15 years, including the emergence of the disability movement. Concludes by considering possible future directions for disabled people in 21st Century Britain.
Personal accounts: involving disabled children in research
- Author:
- BERESFORD Bryony
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office/University of York. Social Policy Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 107p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Reviews the methods used to access the views and experiences of disabled children, including those with speech and learning difficulties. The methodological review is placed in the context of the theoretical, moral and policy arguments that have promoted this shift towards child-centred research. The ethical implications of working directly with children are also considered.
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.
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.
Still missing: volume 2; disabled children and the Children Act
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- Who Cares Trust
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 121p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report looking in detail at how three local authorities are implementing the Children Act 1989 as it applies to disabled children, and attempts to answer some of the policy and practice implications of the experiences recorded in volume one, which presented the views of thirty disabled people who spent most of their childhood away from home.
The cost of care: the impact of charging policy on the lives of disabled people
- Authors:
- CHETWYND Mark, et al
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 96p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Report providing a systematic account of disabled people's responses to new and increased charges for local authority care services. Based on interviews in 5 local authorities in England and Wales, each with a different charging system. Highlights issues of major concern to disabled people and considers the implications for charging policies and practices.
Disability and social change: private lives and public policies
- Authors:
- SHAH Sonali, PRIESTLY Mark
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 224p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Combining critical policy analysis with biographical accounts, this book provides a socio-historical account of the changing treatment of disabled people in Britain from the 1940s to the present day. It explores how public policies and institutional care have influenced the types of life-choices and the opportunities available to people. It also asks whether life has really changed for disabled people. A key strength of the book is how it uses biographical methods in new and critical ways to examine social and historical change over time. Chapters cover: Policy, history and biography; Telling stories; Keeping it in the family; Living with medicine; Learning about life; and Working for a living. Especially relevant for researchers, students and policy makers.
Reviewing changes to the child disability allowance: giving parents a voice
- Authors:
- STRATTON Katrina, DELANEY Joanna
- Journal article citation:
- Australian Social Work, 53(2), June 2000, pp.5-11.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
A diabetes clinic at a hospital for children in Australia has been concerned at the impact of changes made in 1998 to eligibility for the Child Disability Allowance on families caring for a child with diabetes. A survey of those families was conducted to obtain their views on the changes. Results showed the number of families receiving Child Disability Allowance since the changes was significantly declined. The results formed part of a submission to the Department of Family and Community Services evaluation, giving parents a voice in this process. This project illustrates the capacity of social workers to attempt to impact on social policy within the context of their clinical practice.
Care, communities and citizens
- Author:
- BARNES Marian
- Publisher:
- Longman
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 213p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Harlow
Looks at the policy of community care for disabled people and older people in the context of transformations in health and social care systems over the last decade. Focuses on the challenges presented to providers of services by users of services and examines the growth of user movements, the self-organisation of carers, and the voices of services users. Explores potential conflicts and differences in priorities which become evident when users and carers are enabled to contribute to policy and service development. Also looks at conceptual, policy and practice developments which need to be made of community care is to be experienced as an empowering service option.
Children in society: contemporary theory, policy and practice price
- Editors:
- FOLEY Pam, ROCHE Jeremy, TUCKER Stanley
- Publisher:
- Palgrave
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 299p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
Collection of papers providing a critical and comprehensive account of the theoretical and practical issues raised in working with children and their families. Includes chapters on: the development of child health and welfare services in England; the changing experience of childhood; the demonisation of children; racism; child care policy; children's policy in the European Union; quality of life for children; children's rights; mothers, children and healthcare at home; listening to children; community development as a strategy for empowerment; children's hearings in Scotland; parental responsibility; the impact of domestic violence on children; primary education in Scotland; children, sexual abuse and the child protection system; foster families; external influences on workplace competence; an ecological perspective on child abuse; children's health at school; theories of child development; working with disabled children; involving children and families in decision making about health; men working in child care; perspectives on parenting; and developing partnership practice.