Edited by Gillian Dalley
There is growing debate within the disability movement: should social policy be concerned with enabling disabled people to fit more easily into the world as it is or should the world be altered to take account of disabled people's needs? The movement itself - organisations of, and for, disabled people - divides between reformers, who challenge the status quo by arguing for incremental policy improvements, and radicals, who sometimes advocate direct action in favour of fundamental policy change. These differences underline many of the critiques of current policies which have been produced and thus account for the variation in approach. The chapters in this book reflect some of these competing views.
1991 ISBN 0 85374 535 8
Contents:
Disability and
social policy
Gillian Dalley
Disability and
financial need - the failure of the social security system
Alan Walker and Lucy Walker
Income maintenance
for people with disabilities
Brian McGinnis
Meeting the
costs of disability
Richard Berthoud
Paying for the
additional costs of disability
Peter Large
Social care
services for disabled people
Hazel Qureshi
Speaking out:
disabled people and state welfare
Mike Olivier
Support for
informal carers - the role of social security
Sally Baldwin and Gillian Parker
Care of disabled
people
Richard Wood
The carers'
viewpoint
Jill Pitkeathley
Overcoming barriers
to employment
Michael Floyd
Employment of
people with disabilities
Ian Bruce