Understanding Disability Policy / / Alan Roulstone, Simon Prideaux.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• VerfasserIn: Roulstone, Alan,; Prideaux, Simon,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

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, whilst others are prey to major retractions in public services and aggressive attempts to redefine who counts as 'genuinely disabled'. Understanding disability policy locates disability policy into broader social policy and welfare policy writings and goes beyond narrow statutory evaluations of welfare to embrace a range of indicators of disabled people's welfare. The book critically explores the roles of social security, social support, poverty, socio-economic status, community safety, official discourses and spatial change in shaping disabled people's opportunities. It also situates welfare and disability policy in the broader conceptual shifts to the social model of disability and its critics. Finally it explores the possible connection between changing official and academic constructions of disability and their implications for social policy in the 21st century. The book is supported by a companion website, containing additional materials for both students and lecturers using the book, which is available from the link above.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- Detailed contents -- List of boxes -- List of acronyms -- Acknowledgements -- A note on the terminology -- Introduction -- Contextualising disability welfare policy -- Cure, care and protect: the paternalist policy heritage -- The rhetoric and reality of community care for disabled people -- Aiming high enough? Disabled children and mainstreamed lives -- New Labour and clauses for conditionality: activating disabled citizens -- Supporting disabled adults: new paradigms or new paternalism? -- Older disabled people: choices and rights in old age? -- Getting it right for all disabled people? The impact of disability policy on structured disadvantage -- Out of the labyrinth? The disability benefits system unpacked -- Coalition dreams, new conditionality and disability policy -- References -- Index