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Social Security Green Paper
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- SCOLAG Journal, 249, March 1998, pp.38-40.
- Publisher:
- ScoLAG(Scottish Legal Action Group)
Discusses how welfare benefits have a relatively short shelf-life in the UK and how the Government's new green paper - New Ambitions for Our Country: A New Contract for Welfare - is set to introduce a further layer of benefit reform. Provides a summary of the Government's consultation paper.
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.
New ambitions, old dreams - the green paper on welfare reform
- Author:
- GRAY Jim
- Journal article citation:
- SCOLAG Journal, 252, June 1998, pp.91-94.
- Publisher:
- ScoLAG(Scottish Legal Action Group)
The author scrutinises the Government's green paper, 'A new contract for welfare', and laments the demise of the "cradle to the grave" philosophy which underpinned the welfare state from its inception.
The Green Paper on Welfare Reform - CPAG's response
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Poverty, 101, Autumn 1998, pp.1-6.
- Publisher:
- Child Poverty Action Group
This article summarises the Child Poverty Action Group's response to the Green Paper on welfare reform.
New ambitions for our country: a new contract for welfare; presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Social Security and the Minister for Welfare Reform by Command of Her Majesty, March 1998
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Social Security
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 102p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Green paper marking the beginning of a debate on reform of the welfare state. The principles guiding the proposed reforms are a system rebuilt around work and security - 'work for those who can; security for those who can't'. Contains chapters on: the background to reform; the four ages of welfare; the importance of work; new partnerships for welfare; the importance of welfare services; support for disabled people; support for families and children; attacking social exclusion; rooting out fraud; a modern service; and the fourth age - 'Welfare 2020'.