- 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 -
One The challenges of a work-first agenda for disabled people -
Two The missing million: the challenges of employing more disabled people -
Three New Deal for Disabled People: what's new about New Deal? -
Four Disabled people, employment and the Work Preparation programme -
Five Legislating for equality: evaluating the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 -
Six Disability frameworks and monitoring disability in local authorities: a challenge for the proposed Disability Discrimination Bill -
Seven Job retention: a new policy priority for disabled people -
Eight Benefits and tax credits: enabling systems or constraints? -
Nine Challenging the disability benefit trap across the OECD -
Ten Jobcentre Plus: can specialised personal advisers be justified? -
Eleven Disability and employment: global and national policy influences in New Zealand, Canada and Australia -
Twelve Disabled people and ‘employment’ in the majority world: policies and realities -
Thirteen Employment policy and practice: a perspective from the disabled people's movement -
Fourteen Changing minds: opening up employment options for people with mental health problems -
Fifteen Enabling futures for people with learning difficulties? Exploring employment realities behind the policy rhetoric -
Sixteen Barriers to labour market participation: the experience of Deaf and hard of hearing people -
Seventeen Work matters: visual impairment, disabling barriers and employment options -
Eighteen Disabled people and employment: the potential impact of European policy -
Nineteen Missing pieces: the voluntary and community sector's potential for inclusive employment -
Twenty Professional barriers and facilitators: policy issues for an enabling salariat -
Twenty One Disabled people, the state and employment: historical lessons and welfare policy -
Twenty Two ‘Work’ is a four-letter word: disability, work and welfare -
Twenty Three Conclusions - Index
Enabling futures for people with learning difficulties? Exploring employment realities behind the policy rhetoric
Enabling futures for people with learning difficulties? Exploring employment realities behind the policy rhetoric
- Chapter:
- (p.219) Fifteen Enabling futures for people with learning difficulties? Exploring employment realities behind the policy rhetoric
- Source:
- Working futures?
- Author(s):
Alan Roulstone
Colin Barnes
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This chapter contemplates the current nature of employment for people with learning difficulties and aims to envisage an enabling future. It critically considers some of the contemporary employment policies and programmes in Britain, making reference to a recent study of the work experiences of people with learning difficulties and unpacking the discourses and philosophies that underpin some of the interventions of professionals and policy makers. The chapter outlines the definition of ‘learning difficulties’. It explores how employment was considered in the 2001 White Paper, Valuing People. The chapter critically examines the impact of supported employment and its relationship with normalisation. It analyses the concept of ‘real jobs’ and the service culture to which many people with learning difficulties are confined. The chapter assesses the involvement of disabled professionals and organisations of disabled people in the employment of people with learning difficulties.
Keywords: employment, learning difficulties, contemporary employment policies, Britain, work experiences, Valuing People, real jobs
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- 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 -
One The challenges of a work-first agenda for disabled people -
Two The missing million: the challenges of employing more disabled people -
Three New Deal for Disabled People: what's new about New Deal? -
Four Disabled people, employment and the Work Preparation programme -
Five Legislating for equality: evaluating the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 -
Six Disability frameworks and monitoring disability in local authorities: a challenge for the proposed Disability Discrimination Bill -
Seven Job retention: a new policy priority for disabled people -
Eight Benefits and tax credits: enabling systems or constraints? -
Nine Challenging the disability benefit trap across the OECD -
Ten Jobcentre Plus: can specialised personal advisers be justified? -
Eleven Disability and employment: global and national policy influences in New Zealand, Canada and Australia -
Twelve Disabled people and ‘employment’ in the majority world: policies and realities -
Thirteen Employment policy and practice: a perspective from the disabled people's movement -
Fourteen Changing minds: opening up employment options for people with mental health problems -
Fifteen Enabling futures for people with learning difficulties? Exploring employment realities behind the policy rhetoric -
Sixteen Barriers to labour market participation: the experience of Deaf and hard of hearing people -
Seventeen Work matters: visual impairment, disabling barriers and employment options -
Eighteen Disabled people and employment: the potential impact of European policy -
Nineteen Missing pieces: the voluntary and community sector's potential for inclusive employment -
Twenty Professional barriers and facilitators: policy issues for an enabling salariat -
Twenty One Disabled people, the state and employment: historical lessons and welfare policy -
Twenty Two ‘Work’ is a four-letter word: disability, work and welfare -
Twenty Three Conclusions - Index
