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Independent futures – Creating user–led disability services in a disabling society: BASW/Policy Press titles

Autor Colin Barnes
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 apr 2006
This book provides the first comprehensive review of the increase in the UK and internationally in the number of disability related support services controlled by disabled people themselves. It highlights the need for greater user involvement in service provision and delivery.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781861347183
ISBN-10: 1861347189
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 173 x 238 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bristol University Press
Seria BASW/Policy Press titles

Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Colin Barnes is Professor of Disability Studies and Geof Mercer is Reader in Disability Studies, both at the Centre for Disability Studies in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds.

Cuprins

List of figures and tables
Acknowledgements
Notes on the authors

1. Examining user-led services
Introduction
Re-thinking disability
    Citizens, consumers and users
    User-led organisations
Doing disability research
    A notice on terminology
Overview of the book
2. Traditional approaches: disability policy and the welfare state
Introduction
Historical perspectives on disability policy
Disability and the welfare state: 1940s to 1970s
    Moving to the community
Disability as a personal tragedy
Changing policy perspectives on disability since 1979
    New Right
    New Labour
Review
3. Disability activism and the struggle for independent living
Introduction
Towards a new disability politics
    The Independent Living Movement
    Disability activism in Britain
The social model of disability
Critiques of traditional community services
Building user-led services
Review
4. Researching user-led organizations
Introduction
Taking issue with ‘conventional’ disability research
Disability research with a social model perspective
    Research gains
    Accountability
    Social and material relations of research production
Methodology and methods
The Creating Independent Futures study
    Stage One
    Stage Two
    Stage Three
    Stage Four
Review
5. User-led organizations: building an alternative approach
Introduction
From user consultation to user-led services
The growth of user-led services
Applying the social model of disability
Accountability and user control
Review
6. Service design and delivery: opportunities and constraints
Introduction
Delivering services in support of independent living
Service patterns
Service monitoring or control?
Resources: economic, physical and human
    Funding
    Location and premises
    Paid staff and volunteers
Review
7. Service users’ views and experiences
Introduction
Views on mainstream services
Promoting user-led services
    Accessing user-led services
Use of services
Wants and aspirations
Review
8. Politics and campaigning
Introduction
Politics: the local viewpoint
Campaigning issues and activities
    Direction action
Empowerment and consciousness raising
Don’t upset the applecart
Review
9. Policy change or retrenchment?
Introduction
Dependence, independence or inclusion?
Professional dominance and new styles of working
    Partnerships
Same old services: SOS or something else?
Review
10. Future directions
Introduction
Key themes and issues
Independent living: beyond ‘social care’
    Equal worth: right to life and childhood disability
    Work and employment
    Physical environment
    Implementation
Independent living in an inclusive society
Review

References
Index