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Mixed blessings? The Invalid Care Allowance and carer's income needs
- Author:
- McLAUGHLIN Eithne
- Journal article citation:
- Benefits, 3, January 1992, pp.8-11.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Reports on a recent study of the Invalid Care Allowance and implications for the issues of women's role in society, and the increasing number of people being involved in the provision or receipt of community care.
Able lives: women's experience of paralysis
- Editor:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- Women's Press
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 227p., illus., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Women with spinal injuries discuss their lives, practical matters such as housing, money and careers, and more personal issues of pain, incontinence and relationships.
Social welfare in Tokyo
- Author:
- TOKYO METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT. Bureau of Social Welfare
- Publisher:
- Tokyo Metropolitan Government. Bureau of Social Welfare
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 55p.,tables,illus.
- Place of publication:
- Tokyo
Contains information on the history, geography and population of Tokyo. Goes on to look at social services and benefits provision.
Disabling barriers: enabling environments
- Editors:
- SWAIN John, et al
- Publisher:
- Sage/Open University
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 319p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Argues that 'disability' is caused by the way society is organised and that numerous social, structural and economic barriers deny people with disabilities the opportunity of full citizenship and equal opportunities. Critically reviews professional practice and describes alternative models of support which give disabled people control over their own lives.
Inlogov informs on poverty
- Authors:
- GRAYSON Lesley, HOBSON Margaret, SMITH Barbara, comps
- Publisher:
- University of Birmingham. Institute of Local Government Studies
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 171p.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
This issue addresses poverty from the perspective of low incomes, covering both low pay and support through the social security system. The publication is divided into 7 main sections which cover perceptions of poverty; people in poverty; poor work and poor pay; living on a low income; social security benefits; anti-poverty strategies; and finally discusses the developing agenda for poverty in the 1990's.
Social welfare services in Japan: revised edition 1990
- Authors:
- JAPANESE NATIONAL COMMITTEE, ICSW
- Publisher:
- Japanese National Committee, ICSW
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 168p.,tables,list of orgs.
- Place of publication:
- Tokyo