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Disability equality training: constructing a collaborative model
- Author:
- WALKER Steven
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 19(7), December 2004, pp.703-719.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Describes and discusses the process of a research project designed to provide a model of disability equality training for health and social care staff. Evaluates the interprofessional and participative consultative process when designing a programme based on a social model of disability. Analyses the methodology and conceptual thinking of the research process using qualitative data generated from service users and staff. Concludes with discussion of the challenges and opportunities for health and social service agencies committed to implementing staff disability equality
Implementing the social model of disability: theory and research
- Editors:
- BARNES Colin, MERCER Geof
- Publisher:
- Disability Press
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 233p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
This book contains 13 chapters on the theoretical and research implications of the social model of disability. Over the last three decades disability activists have established the social model of disability as a comprehensive critique of mainstream academic theories and policy approaches. The contributors, including established figures and newcomers to the field, raise a number of important controversies and concerns central to theorising and researching disability in the 21st century. Taken together they provide ample testimony to the continuing vitality of debates around the social model in disability studies.
Families with children with disabilities - inequalities and the social model
- Authors:
- DOWLING Monica, DOLAN Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 16(1), January 2001, pp.21-35.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article suggests that families with children with disabilities experience a range of inequalities that families with children without disabilities do not suffer. It draws on a recent qualitative study to illustrate the way in which it is not just disabled people, but in the case of disabled children, whole families that suffer from unequal opportunities and outcomes. Draws on the social model of disability to show that the lives of these families are often characterised by financial hardship, stress and anxiety as a result of social barriers, prejudices and poorly conceived service provision. The social model of disability is usually drawn upon to illustrate the way in which social organisations disable people with impairments. In this instance, we illustrate the way in which social organisations disable not just the family member who has an impairment, but the whole family unit. By applying this model of disability, new ways of creating practices and policies for these families can be developed which incorporate their views into the heart of the policy-making process.
Full and equal equality
- Author:
- REDLEY Marcus
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 23(2), 2018, pp.72-77.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: This commentary takes the article, “Participation of adults with learning disabilities in the 2015 United Kingdom General Election”, as a jumping-off point for considering a tension between the aim of full and equal equality for all people with disabilities as set out in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and more traditional beliefs, that on occasion, it is necessary to deny legal autonomy of men and women with intellectual disabilities in order to protect them. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach: This issue is explored by reviewing the multiple and often conflicting ways in which disability and intellectual disability are conceptualised. Findings: Given the multiple and contradictory ways in which both disability and intellectual disability are understood, any discussion of the rights of persons with disabilities is going to be highly problematic. Originality/value: Equal recognition before the law and the presumption that all persons with intellectual disabilities can – with support – make autonomous decisions could be treated as an empirical question. (Publisher abstract)
How is the UK performing on disability rights? The UN's recommendations for the UK
- Author:
- EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Equality and Human Rights Commission
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 34
- Place of publication:
- London
This report sets out the United Nations' main concerns about disability rights in the UK and the country’s progress in putting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities into practice. It draws the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ‘Concluding Observations’ report and highlights concerns and recommendations for action by the UK Government and the devolved governments of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. It presents concerns about how the UK is implementing the specific rights in the Convention, from Article 5 through to Article 30, and includes recommended improvements. Concerns include implementation of the right to be free from exploitation, violence and abuse; to live independently and being included in the community; and for participation in cultural life. (Edited publisher abstract)
Dementia, equity and rights
- Authors:
- AGE UK, et al
- Publisher:
- National Care Forum
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 53
- Place of publication:
- Coventry
Highlights the main issues arising for people with dementia and carers from a variety of population groups. These include: the oldest old, young onset, people with disabilities, black and minority ethnic people (BME), women, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people (LGB&T), and different socio-economic populations. The paper considers the prevalence of dementia within each group and the needs and experiences of people living with dementia and carers within each protected characteristic group. It also provides information, recommendations and resources for commissioners, service providers, service users and their carers to ensure that the best possible care and support to people living with dementia and their carers is expected and delivered. The paper proposes to consider dementia as a disability and to take a social/rights based approach to the way we respond to dementia. Using the social model of disability takes a person-centred view of disability that additionally tries to ensure the environment does not further disadvantage people with dementia. The paper also raises issues of the rights of people with dementia under the law, and considers how dementia is experienced and perceived by people with dementia and their carers. The key overarching themes emerging in this paper include: understanding each person with dementia, and carer, as an individual; considering different pathways to diagnosis; exploring tailored support options following diagnosis; enabling a variety of peer-support options for people with dementia and carers; tailoring engagement with families and carers; working through community intermediaries; locally tailored public-awareness campaigns; professional understanding of equity issues and how this affects individuals; exploiting local data resources; and embedding people’s experience of dementia in research and evaluation. (Edited publisher abstract)
Disability equality within healthcare: the role of healthcare professionals
- Author:
- BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 48p.
- Place of publication:
- London
It is estimated that around 11 million adults in the UK are disabled. There is evidence that inequalities in health outcomes and access to healthcare among disabled people continue to exist. Doctors recognise that they have an important role to play in addressing disability equality. Section one introduces the social model of disability which highlights that it is barriers within society which ‘disable’ people with impairments and not the impairments themselves. Applying this model to healthcare means that adopting a more holistic approach to disability which looks beyond standards and targets, and works in partnership with disabled people, is likely to be more effective in addressing health inequalities experienced by disabled people. Section two highlights the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and 2005 which make it illegal to discriminate against disabled people in the provision of healthcare. All service providers, including those in general practice, have a duty to promote disability equality and are required make reasonable adjustments to the way they deliver healthcare and to the physical features of their premises to meet the needs of disabled people. NHS organisations, excluding GP practices, also have a duty to produce a disability equality scheme to demonstrate and report on how they will tackle disability equality and how they will consult with disabled people within service design.
Disability, politics and the struggle for change
- Editor:
- BARTON Len
- Publisher:
- David Fulton
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 184p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This book seeks to explore how disability is understood and the position and experiences of disabled people both within and across different societies. The question of politics is explored in relation to specific struggles, providing insights and ideas for further exploration. The authors examine the social model of disability, criticising exclusionary barriers while progressing the realisation of a more democratic and participatory society based on principles of equality.
Controversial issues in a disabling society
- Authors:
- SWAIN John, FRENCH Sally, CAMERON Colin
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 198p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Examines the consequences of the social model of disability. From this point of view society is itself at fault, that is a disabling society that is geared to, built for and by, and controlled by non-disabled people. This exclusion of disabled people is created and constructed in every aspect of living including language, thinking, the built environment and power structures and regulations. This model asserts that whether one is disabled or not, one lives within a 'disabling society'.
Deconstructing a disabling environment in social work education
- Authors:
- JAMES Pauline, THOMAS Martin
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Education (The International Journal), 15(1), 1996, pp.34-45.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This paper gives an account of a project with two objectives; first, to give greater prominence to social work with visually impaired people on a Diploma in Social Work programme with the establishment of a particular area of practice focusing upon the needs of blind and partially sighted people, and second, to positively attract students with visual disabilities to social work training. Both objectives are rooted in an analysis based upon the social model of disability which asserts that it is society which disables by responding negatively to the needs of people with disabilities.