Understanding Disability Policy

by Roulstone, Alan; Prideaux, Simon

• ISBN13: 9781847427380
• ISBN10: 1847427383
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-15
• Publisher: Policy Pr

Summary

In an era of scarce social resources the question of the changing social policy constructions and responses to disabled people has become increasingly important. Paradoxically, some disabled people are realising new freedoms and choices never before envisioned, while others are prey to major retractions in public services and aggressive attempts to redefine who counts as 'genuinely disabled'.

Table of Contents

Detailed contents	p. vi
List of boxes	p. x
List of acronyms	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
A note on the terminology	p. xiv
Introduction	p. xv
Contextualising disability welfare policy	p. 1
Cure, care and protect: the paternalist policy heritage	p. 21
The rhetoric and reality of community care for disabled people	p. 41
Aiming high enough? Disabled children and mainstreamed lives	p. 57
New Labour and clauses for conditionality: activating disabled citizens	p. 79
Supporting disabled adults: new paradigms or new paternalism?	p. 101
Older disabled people: choices and rights in old age?	p. 123
Getting it right for all disabled people? The impact of disability policy on structured disadvantage	p. 139
Out of the labyrinth? The disability benefits system unpacked	p. 153
Coalition dreams, new conditionality and disability policy	p. 169
References	p. 183
Index	p. 215
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