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National or local?
- Author:
- BARNES Colin
- Journal article citation:
- National Disability Information Project Newsletter, 11, July 1994, p.1.
Outlines the findings of research which evaluated the services provided by national information providers to local information providers.
Against all odds
- Author:
- BRANDON David
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 24.11.94, 1994, p.12.
Contrasts large well established charities in the voluntary sector with smaller user-led campaigning organisations.
The exclusion of disabled people from positions of power in British voluntary organisations
- Author:
- DRAKE Robert F.
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 9(4), 1994, pp.461-480.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Disabled people are excluded in various ways from a wide range of social privileges, activities and institutions. Voluntary and charitable organisations promote themselves as champions of disabled people in their struggle to access to the ordinary choices and opportunities of everyday life. Reports the findings of a study which demonstrates that in voluntary agencies governed by able-bodied people, disabled people are excluded from positions of power and influence, and they experience the same sorts of barriers and constraints as those with which they are confronted in the wider world.
One year on
- Author:
- NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS
- Publisher:
- National Council for Voluntary Organisations
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains 9 specially commissioned articles on the role of voluntary organisations in community care provision. These include: community care implementation and disabled people; income support; carers and community care; some realities of community care planning; and the underlying driving forces.
Involving disabled people in community care planning
- Authors:
- BEWLEY Catherine, GLENDINNING Caroline
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 43p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Report describing the realities and dilemmas of joint working between service providers, purchasers, voluntary organisations and disabled people themselves in the area of community care planning.
Community care planning and disabled people: barriers to effective involvement
- Author:
- BEWLEY Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Impact, 6 April 1994, April 1994, pp.10-11.
Describes a project in Manchester which has for the last two years been looking at the involvement of disabled people in community care planning. Concludes that community care planning is at crossroads. Either it will become a paper exercise absorbing huge voluntary sector resources for little return. Or it will be more closely linked to purchasing an commissioning, providing an opportunity for disabled people and voluntary organisations to influence service provision directly.