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Working futures?: Disabled people, policy and social inclusion

Alan Roulstone and Colin Barnes

Abstract

This book looks at the current effectiveness and future scope for enabling policy in the field of disability and employment. By addressing the current strengths and weaknesses of disability and employment policy, it asks: Is the dichotomy of ‘work for those who can and support for those who cannot’ appropriate to the lives of disabled people; Does current and recent policy reduce or reinforce barriers to paid employment?; What lessons from other welfare regimes can we draw on to further disabled people's working futures? Contributions from academics, NGOs, the OECD, and the disabled people's m ... More

Keywords: disability, employment, dichotomy, disabled people, policy, welfare regimes, NGOs, OECD

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2005 Print ISBN-13: 9781861346261
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: March 2012 DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781861346261.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Alan Roulstone, editor

Colin Barnes, editor

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

List of figures, tables and boxes

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Notes on contributors

Introduction Working futures: disabled people, employment policy and social inclusion

Alan Roulstone, and Colin Barnes

Part One: Work, welfare and social inclusion: challenges, concepts and questions

One The challenges of a work-first agenda for disabled people

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Two The missing million: the challenges of employing more disabled people

Alan Roulstone, and Colin Barnes

Part Two: The current policy environment

Three New Deal for Disabled People: what's new about New Deal?

Alan Roulstone, and Colin Barnes

Four Disabled people, employment and the Work Preparation programme

Alan Roulstone, and Colin Barnes

Five Legislating for equality: evaluating the Disability Discrimination Act 1995

Alan Roulstone, and Colin Barnes

Six Disability frameworks and monitoring disability in local authorities: a challenge for the proposed Disability Discrimination Bill

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Seven Job retention: a new policy priority for disabled people

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Eight Benefits and tax credits: enabling systems or constraints?

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Nine Challenging the disability benefit trap across the OECD

Alan Roulstone, and Colin Barnes

Ten Jobcentre Plus: can specialised personal advisers be justified?

Alan Roulstone, and Colin Barnes

Eleven Disability and employment: global and national policy influences in New Zealand, Canada and Australia

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Twelve Disabled people and ‘employment’ in the majority world: policies and realities

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Part Three: Towards inclusive policy futures

Thirteen Employment policy and practice: a perspective from the disabled people's movement

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Fourteen Changing minds: opening up employment options for people with mental health problems

Alan Roulstone, and Colin Barnes

Fifteen Enabling futures for people with learning difficulties? Exploring employment realities behind the policy rhetoric

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Sixteen Barriers to labour market participation: the experience of Deaf and hard of hearing people

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Seventeen Work matters: visual impairment, disabling barriers and employment options

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Eighteen Disabled people and employment: the potential impact of European policy

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Nineteen Missing pieces: the voluntary and community sector's potential for inclusive employment

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Twenty Professional barriers and facilitators: policy issues for an enabling salariat

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Twenty One Disabled people, the state and employment: historical lessons and welfare policy

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Twenty Two ‘Work’ is a four-letter word: disability, work and welfare

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Twenty Three Conclusions

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End Matter

Index