Disability, Citizenship and Community Care

by Rummery, Kirstein

• ISBN13: 9780754617570
• ISBN10: 0754617572
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd

Summary

An important theoretical and empirical contribution to the debate on citizenship and the welfare state. This book develops Marshall's thesis on social citizenship in a way that is highly relevant to current analyses of the future of the welfare state. It examines the role community care policy and practice plays in shaping disabled people's citizenship in the UK, providing compelling evidence of the ways in which the welfare state can either support, or act as a barrier to disabled people's social participation. The author lays out a clear challenge to the current relationship between disabled people and the welfare state. It will be key reading for anyone concerned with the rights and duties of the state, welfare professionals (particularly social workers), disabled people and their families.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	vi
Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
The Role of Assessments in Community Care for Disabled People in England from 1993	1	(6)
Social Policy, Rights and Citizenship	7	(18)
Community Care for Disabled People in the 1990s	25	(19)
Managing Demand at the Frontline: Managerial, Bureaucratic and Professional Gatekeeping	44	(26)
Negotiating Barriers in the Dark? Accessing Assessments	70	(28)
Being a `Competent Member' of the Community: Services and Social Participation	98	(33)
Community Care Assessments in the 1990s: Citizenship Denied?	131	(33)
Assessment and Care Management Policy and Practice in the New Millennium: Towards a New Framework of Citizenship?	164	(19)
Bibliography	183	(11)
Index	194